The firm concluded an interesting and successful representation of clients whose neighbor had engaged in what clearly appeared to be an unpermitted and unlawful cannabis cultivation activity, which activity compromised and interfered with the firm’s clients’ ability to safely and fully use a driveway that provided access to both properties.  The firm’s clients were the...Read More

Brian Carter and the firm successfully concluded, by settlement agreement, a long saga of a case arising out of oral dealings with a developer that purchased real property adjoining the firm’s clients’ property in Ukiah.  One of the most poignant lessons to be learned from this case is that if a developer ever approaches you...Read More

Brian Carter successfully negotiated a settlement agreement that resolved a long-running dispute between neighbors in a mountainous, residential area of Mendocino County, which dispute boils down to a dispute over water from a spring (which feeds a blue line stream). The recent multi-year drought has exacerbated tensions among neighbors in such areas, and when there...Read More