Candace L. Matson, Esq.

Mediator / Arbitrator

Candace L. Matson is a partner in the Real Estate, Environmental and Construction Practice Group of the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP where she specializes in construction law. Ms. Matson represents owners, lenders, contractors, subcontractors and others in a wide range of private and public contexts relating to construction. Representative matters include transactional and advisory counsel, litigation and advocacy in alternative dispute resolution.

Education

BA -- University of California at Berkeley, 1977

MSEd -- California Lutheran College, 1980

JD -- University of California at Los Angeles, 1989

Professional Activities

Construction Subsection, Los Angeles County Bar Association (Chair)

Associated General Contractors of California Legal Advisory Committee (Former Chair)

National Association of Women in Construction (Former Director)

Memberships:

State Bar of California

Association of Business Trial Lawyers

California Women Lawyers

Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles

Recent Speaking Engagements

Los Angeles County Bar Association, Construction Subsection, "Annual Construction Law Update," February 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

Pepperdine University/AAA/LACBA, "Avoiding and Resolving Construction Claims," September 2004

Host, AGC of California Legal Advisory Committee Annual Retreat, September 2004

Pepperdine's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, "Hot Topics in Construction Law," September 2003

22nd Annual Real Property Retreat, "AIA Construction Contract Forms," May 2003

19th Annual AGC - Legal Retreat, "Critical Developments in 2002 Construction Law," September 2002

National Association of Women in Construction - Region 12, "A Primer on Mold," August 2002

Publications

Co-authored article entitled "The Year 2004 in Review: Construction Law Update," published in Real Property Section Review (LA County Bar) (Spring 2005)

Co-authored article entitled "The Year 2003 in Review: Construction Law Update," published in Real Property Section Review (LA County Bar) (Spring 2004)

Co-Authored white paper entitled "AB 544: Some Temporary Labor Service Agencies Now Qualify as Contractors," published by Associated Contractors of California, Inc. (www.cgcca.org, December 2003)

Authored article entitled "New Construction Defect Litigation," published by Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. (Legal Brief 03-01 2003)

Co-authored article entitled "The Year 2001 in Review: Annual Construction Law Update," published in Verdicts and Settlements, Daily Journal (Los Angeles and San Francisco, April 5, 2002)

Co-authored article entitled "The Year 2000 in Review: Annual Construction Law Update," published by Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. (Legal Brief 01-06 2001)

Authored article on indemnity entitled "Say What You Mean," published by Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. (Legal Brief 01-03 2001)

Co-authored article entitled "E-mail and Beyond: Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Benefits of Electronic Communication," published by Associated General Contractors of California, Inc.(Legal Brief 99-4 1999) and also by CMAA Southern California News (November 1999)

Co-authored chapter pertaining to owners in California Mechanics' Liens and Other Remedies, (3d ed. 1998)

Co-authored portion of 1995 California Litigation Review

Updated Cambridge Institute "Mechanics Liens & Construction Claims under California Law" (1993 and 1995 editions)

Co-authored article entitled "High Court Puts End to California's Peculiar Twist on Peculiar Risk," published in California Construction Law Reporter (October 1993)

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