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Description of Practice:
Bryan is a national expert in drafting and negotiating construction and design professional contracts for all project types including hospitals, sports facilities, universities, hotels, high-rise office buildings, desalination plants, mass transit systems, retail power centers, environmental remediation projects, climate-controlled public storage facilities, tenant improvements, luxury apartments and condominium complexes. Bryan's graduate level course at USC and national seminars have trained thousands of students, accountants and lawyers in construction transactional matters.
Bryan is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California. Since 1990, the graduate courses he has taught include "Construction Management and Technology" and "Construction Law" for the Master of Real Estate Development program.
Bryan is Chair of the firm's Construction Transaction Group and editor of the Green Building Update, a weekly publications on sustainable and green building issues. He is past Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Subsection on Construction Law, and past Chair of the Real Property Section. He is an International Board Member of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society of Brigham Young University, and serves on the Legal Advisory Committee of the Western Conference of Construction Consumers and on the Planning Committee for the USC/LACBA Crocker Symposium. Also, Bryan is a member of the California and American Bar Associations. He is admitted in the Federal Bar, Central District of California and all California state courts.
Before attending law school, Bryan served as a legislative intern for then Senator Paul Laxalt and was the full-time manager of fundraising and development for the National Center on Deafness at California State University, Northridge. He also lived in Brazil for two years and speaks Brazilian Portuguese. Bryan is the Varsity Scout Master of Troop 398.
Bryan's recent significant design and construction transactions include the following:
Adventist Health - 4 Major Hospital and Seismic Rehabilitation Projects in Southern California
American Water - Desalination Plant Rehab in Florida
AMGEN - $1.8 Billion Pharmaceutical Plant in Ireland
Art Center College of Design - Various Building Projects on the Hillside Campus and the South Campus
Bancroft Capital - $80 Million Condo Project in Colorado
Big 5 Sports - Distribution and Warehouse Center
California Institute of Technology - Astrophysics Building, IST Building, South Houses Rehabilitation and Chemistry Building
CIM Group - 30+ Mixed Use Projects
Feather River Hospital - Major Hospital Project
IDE/Ambient -Desalination Plants
ING - ALTA Luxury Housing Development
Kamehameha Schools - Royal Hawaiian Rehabilitation in Hawaii
KeatingKhang - 4 High Rise Condominium Projects in California and Arizona
LNR - Warner Center and Entrada Office Building
Marina Pacific - Beach Hotel
MidState - Warehouse, Distribution and Logistics Center
Muller Company - 4 Major Projects
RAND - Corporate Headquarters
St. John's Health Center - 2 Major Hospital Projects
St. Vincent Medical Center - Major Hospital and Seismic Rehabilitation Project
Sokol - Climate Controlled Storage Facility
Weintraub Financial - 4 Mixed-Use Projects
Western Asset - Los Angeles and New York Headquarters
Articles drafted by Bryan include the following:
It's A Wrap; Property Insurance Coverage Helps Condo Developers Reduce Risk, Commercial Investment Real Estate; CCIM Institute (April, 2006)
Managing Risks of Condominiums; Developers Benefit from Warranties, Inspections and Wrap Insurance, The National Law Journal (March 27, 2006)
Tenant Improvements: The Last Leg of the Development Marathon, American College of Real Estate Lawyers (Spring, 2005)
Under Construction, cover article, Los Angeles Lawyer, 19th Annual Real Estate Law Issue, Vol. 26, no. 10 (January, 2004)
Home Warranty: SB 800, With Its Enhanced Protection Agreements, Is Designed To Eliminate The Need For Costly Litigation Of Building-Problem Disputes. Daily Journal (December 22, 2003)
The ABCs of Construction Risks: Allocating Risks Through Construction Contracts. Construction Executive (November, 2003)
Executive Roundtable: Design/Build, A Good Fit? Construction Executive (October, 2003)
Imagine the Worst to Create the Best Solutions: Crisis-management Plans Often Fail to Consider the Impacts of War and Terrorism. California Real Estate Journal (May 5, 2003)
Getting a Fix on the Right to Repair; Builders Must Be Careful When Altering SB 800's Pre-litigation Procedures. The San Francisco Recorder (April 14, 2003)
Should Developers Opt Out of the SB 800 Prelitigation Procedures? LACBA Real Property Section Review, Vol. 16, no. 2 (Summer, 2003)
Civil Code � 3110.5: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? LACBA Real Property Section Review, Vol. 15, no. 1 (Spring, 2002)
What Real Estate Practitioners Need to Know About Y2K Impacts on the Construction Industry, California Real Property Journal (Fall, 1999)
Construction Contracts: Are California�s New Minority Goals Unconstitutional? LACBA Real Property Section Newsletter, Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1990)
Public Construction Contracts: Are California�s New Minority Goals on a Collision Course with Croson? Public Law News Vol. 13, no. 2 (Spring, 1989)
California Minority Goals After Croson, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Vol. 102, no. 71 (April 10, 1989)
Can Stop-Notice Claimants Get At Interest Reserves? Los Angeles Daily Journal Vol. 102, no. 242 (December 5, 1989)
Bryan's recent lectures include the following:
Work Letters and Tenant Improvements, American College of Real Estate Lawyers (March 19, 2005)
Alternative Dispute Resolution Provisions, American Bar Association (April 16, 2005)
Current Issues in Condominium Conversion Projects, USC/Los Angeles County Bar Association Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium (April 21, 2005)
Construction Contracts, Continuing Education of the Bar (May 20, 2005)
Construction Indemnity Clauses: Who Bears the Burden of a Mistake, Los Angeles County Bar Association (October 25, 2005)
Contracts and Disputes, American Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association (November 16, 2007)
Fundamentals in Construction Insurance, Los Angeles County Bar Association (November 29, 2005)
Construction ADR, California Dispute Resolution Council ( September 16, 2005)
Condominiums and SB 800 -- Part I, Client Seminar Series (July 27, 2006)
Condominiums and SB 800 -- Part II, Client Seminar Series (August 18, 2006)
Drafting and Negotiating Contracts, Part I Client Seminar Series (September 12, 2006)
Arbitration, Mediation and ADR Client Seminar Series (September 19, 2006)
Indemnity and Insurance Client Seminar Series (September 26, 2006)
The Cutting Edge of Risk Management for Mixed Use Projects and Construction Defects, Los Angeles County Bar Association (October 24, 2006)
Drafting and Negotiating Contracts II Client Seminar Series (October 27, 2006)
OCIP's and Wrap Policies, Super Conference (December 6 - 8, 2006)
Condominiums: Opportunities & Pitfalls, Co-chair, The Seminar Group (February 2, 2007)
J. Rueben Clark Law Society Annual Conference, Conference Chair, Pepperdine Law School (February 16-17, 2007)
Update on California Indemnity Law, State Bar 26th Annual Retreat (April 27 - 29, 2007)
Fundamentals in Construction Contracts, Lorman Education Services (May 31, 2007)
Educational History:
Mr. Jackson received his B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1983 and his J.D. from BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1986. |
