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1 1851 EAST FIRST STREET, 10 TH FLOOR, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA p fx Samuel M. Danskin, Partner June, 201 VIA SCSC ELECTRONIC SERVICE ALL COUNSEL Re: Cilker Apartments, LLC v. Western National Construction, et al. Our File No.: Dear Counsel: In follow up to the deposition of Mark Chapman which occurred on May 31, June 1 and June 2, 201, below is a breakdown of the expert fees owed by each party in attendance at the deposition. Deposition Date Total Fee Fee Breakdown May 31, hours x $420/hour = $2,940 $2,940/15 parties = $19.00 per party June 1, hours x $420/hour = $2,940 $2,940/18 parties = $13.33 per party June 2, hours x $420/hour = $2,940 $2,940/1 parties = $ per party A copy of the appearances pages from the court reporter for the day of deposition is enclosed for reference. Fees are to be paid directly to Bert L. Howe & Associates and a copy of the completed W9 form is enclosed for your convenience. Thank you for your attention to the above. Sincerely, Samuel M. Danskin P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Letter\Outgoing\Counsel20100[Chapman Fees].docx NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

2 ALL COUNSEL June, 201 Page 2 SMD:se Enclosures Cc: Bert L. Howe & Associates P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Letter\Outgoing\Counsel20100[Chapman Fees].docx NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

3 1 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 2 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA 3 ---O0O--- 4 CILKER APARTMENTS, LLC, 5 Plaintiff, vs. No. 1CV WESTERN NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION, et al., 8 9 Defendants. / 10 AND ALL RELATED CROSS-ACTIONS. / DEPOSITION OF LORIN MARK CHAPMAN 15 VOLUME V 1 (Pages through) Taken before KIMBERLEY RICHARDSON, RPR, CCRR 19 CSR No May 31, Aiken Welch Court Reporting 23 One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 250 Oakland, California (510) /(877) Fax (510) P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

4 2 1 I N D E X 2 PAGE 3 EXAMINATION BY MR. HETHERINGTON 4 EXAMINATION BY E X H I B I T S 11 NO. PAGE 12 Exhibit 9 Enlarged Slab Plan (WNC-BHA ) 14 Exhibit 97 Photo Reports by Address (WNC-BHA ) 15 1 Exhibit 98 Albanese Request For Information No (WNC-BHA ) 18 Exhibit 99 Albanese Request For Information No (WNC-BHA ) 20 Exhibit 970 Fax to Gary Love from Bill Cilker dated ((WNC-BHA ) 22 Exhibit 971 Memorandum to File from John Springman dated (WNC-BHA ) 24 P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

5 DEPOSITION OF LORIN MARK CHAPMAN 2 3 BE IT REMEMBERED, that pursuant to Notice, and on 9: the 31st day of May 201, commencing at the hour of 5 a.m., in the offices of Aiken Welch Court Reporters, N. Market Street, Suite 300, San Jose, California, 7 before me, KIMBERLEY RICHARDSON, a Certified Shorthand 8 Reporter, personally appeared LORIN MARK CHAPMAN, 9 produced as a witness in said action, and being by me in 10 first duly sworn, was thereupon examined as a witness 11 said cause o0o APPEARANCES: 15 For the Plaintiff Cilker Apartments, LLC: 1 JON B. ZIMMERMAN Robinson & Wood, Inc North First Street San Jose, California jbz@robinsonwood.com For the Defendant Madera Framing, Inc.: 21 ALEXANDER R. MOORE Boornazian, Jensen & Garthe th Street P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

6 Suite Oakland, California For the Defendant McLarand, Vasquez & Partners, Inc.: 2 STEPHEN B. LITCHFIELD Collins, Collins, Muir & Stewart LLP Harrison Street Suite Oakland, California slitchfield@ccmslaw.com 7 For the Defendant Dimetrius Painting: 8 JENN CRITTONDON 9 Ericksen, Arbuthnot 2300 Clayton Road 10 Suite 350. Concord, California gwood@ericksenarbuthnot.com For the Defendant Pyramid Builders, Inc.: 15 BRYAN KERNEY 1 Fischer Kerney 888 Munras Avenue 17 Monterey, California bpk@fk-legal.com For the Defendant Joseph J. Albanese, Inc.: 21 JAMES HETHERINGTON P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

7 22 Goodman Neuman Hamilton, LLP 417 Montgomery Street 23 10th Floor San Francisco, California For the Defendant Western National Construction: 2 SAMUEL M. DANSKIN Green & Hall East First Street 10th Floor 4 Santa Ana, California sdanskin@greenhall.com 7 For the Defendant Pyramid Builders: 8 MARK PHILLIPS 9 Kramer, deboer & Keane, LLP 425 Market Street 10 Suite 2200 San Francisco, California mphillips@kdeklaw.com For the Defendant AMPAM Parks Mechanical, Inc.: 15 ROBYN McCLAIN 1 Letofsky McClain 355 Nobel Drive 17 Suite 400 San Diego, California rmcclain@letofskymcclain.com P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

8 21 For the Defendant Los Nietos Construction: 22 JOSEPH LONG Long Blumberg LLP Buskirk Avenue Suite Walnut Creek, California For the Defendant Western National Construction: 2 ZACHARIAH TOMLIN 3 Lorber Greenfield Polito 985 Stowe Drive. 4 Poway, California ztomlin@lorberlaw.com 7 For the Defendant Casey-Fogli Concrete Contractors, Inc.: 8 THOMAS YEN 9 Law Offices of Michael Pollard 525 Market Street 10 Suite 2850 San Francisco, California thomas.yen@zurichna.com For the Defendant Cell-Crete Corporation: 15 GARY BERTICEVICH Ryan & Lifter Crow Canyon Place Suite San Ramon, California gberticevich@rallaw.com 19 P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

9 20 For the Defendant Madera Construction: 21 DENAE OLIVIERI 22 Sellar, Hazard & Lucia 201 North Civic Drive 23 Suite 145 Walnut Creek, California For the Defendants LDI Mechanical, Inc.; AMPAM LDI Mechanical: 2 YVONNE JORGENSEN 3 Van De Poel, Levy, Allen & Arneal, LLP 100 South Main Plaza 4 Suite 325 Walnut Creek, California yjorgensen@vanlevylaw.com 7 8 For the Defendant Tara Coatings, Inc.: 9 DANICA CHANG Wait & Hufnagel West First Street Suite Claremont, California dchang@wait-hufnagel.com 14 For the Defendant Alliance Building Products: 15 JOHN KAZANOVICZ Wolfe & Wyman LLP N. California Boulevard Suite Walnut Creek, California rjcollaco@wolfewyman.com P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

10 P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

11 1 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 2 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA 3 ---O0O--- 4 CILKER APARTMENTS, LLC, 5 Plaintiff, vs. No. 1CV WESTERN NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION, et al., 8 9 Defendants. / 10 AND ALL RELATED CROSS-ACTIONS. / DEPOSITION OF LORIN MARK CHAPMAN 15 VOLUME VI 1 (Pages through) Taken before KIMBERLEY RICHARDSON, RPR, CCRR 19 CSR No June 1, Aiken Welch Court Reporting 23 One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 250 P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

12 Oakland, California (510) /(877) Fax (510) I N D E X 2 PAGE 3 EXAMINATION BY 1 4 EXAMINATION BY E X H I B I T S 11 NO. PAGE 12 Exhibit 972 (WNC-BHA to 15781) 14 Exhibit 973 Defense Scope of Repair 15 (WNC-BHA Exhibit 974 Series of color photocopies of photos 17 headed "Damage to Beams" 18 WNC-BHA ) 19 Exhibit 975 Allocation Summary - Sort by Trade 2 P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

13 20 (WNC-BHA ) 21 Exhibit 97 Document headed "Working Document" 22 WNC-BHA Exhibit 977 General Contractor Analysis - Depositions 24 (WNC-BHA ) 25 Exhibit 978 Defect Occurrence Matrix 1 WNC-BHA ) 2 Exhibit 979 Subsequent production of documents from 3 Bert Howe Associates 4 (WNC-BHA ) 5 Exhibit 980 Group of letters from Steve Gentry (WNC-BHA ) P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

14 DEPOSITION OF LORIN MARK CHAPMAN 2 3 BE IT REMEMBERED, that pursuant to Notice, and on 4 the 1st day of June 201, commencing at the hour of 9:37 5 a.m., in the offices of Aiken Welch Court Reporters, 111 N. Market Street, Suite 300, San Jose, California, 7 before me, KIMBERLEY RICHARDSON, a Certified Shorthand 8 Reporter, personally appeared LORIN MARK CHAPMAN, 9 produced as a witness in said action, and being by me 10 first duly sworn, was thereupon examined as a witness in 11 said cause P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

15 ---o0o APPEARANCES: 15 For the Plaintiff Cilker Apartments, LLC: 1 JON B. ZIMMERMAN Robinson & Wood, Inc North First Street San Jose, California jbz@robinsonwood.com For the Defendant Madera Framing, Inc.: 22 ALEXANDER R. MOORE Boornazian, Jensen & Garthe th Street Suite Oakland, California amoore@bjg.com 5 1 For the Defendant McLarand, Vasquez & Partners, Inc.: 2 STEPHEN B. LITCHFIELD Collins, Collins, Muir & Stewart LLP Harrison Street Suite Oakland, California slitchfield@ccmslaw.com 7 For the Defendant Dimetrius Painting: 8 JENN CRITTONDON 9 Ericksen, Arbuthnot 2300 Clayton Road P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

16 10 Suite 350 Concord, California For the Defendant Pyramid Builders, Inc.: 15 BRYAN KERNEY 1 Fischer Kerney 888 Munras Avenue 17 Monterey, California bpk@fk-legal.com For the Defendant Joseph J. Albanese, Inc.: 21 JAMES HETHERINGTON 22 Goodman Neuman Hamilton, LLP Montgomery Street 10th Floor 24 San Francisco, California jhetherington@gnhllp.com 1 For the Defendant Western National Construction: 2 SAMUEL M. DANSKIN Green & Hall East First Street 10th Floor 4 Santa Ana, California sdanskin@greenhall.com P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

17 7 For the Defendant Pyramid Builders: 8 MARK PHILLIPS 9 Kramer, deboer & Keane, LLP 425 Market Street 10 Suite 2200 San Francisco, California mphillips@kdeklaw.com For the Defendant AMPAM Parks Mechanical, Inc.: 15 ROBYN McCLAIN 1 Letofsky McClain 355 Nobel Drive 17 Suite 400 San Diego, California rmcclain@letofskymcclain.com For the Defendant Los Nietos Construction: 22 JOSEPH LONG Long Blumberg LLP Buskirk Avenue Suite Walnut Creek, California jlong@longblumberg.com P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

18 1 For the Defendant White Residential: 2 ELIZABETH STEWART 3 Low, Ball & Lynch 505 Montgomery Street 4 7th Floor San Francisco, California estewart@lowball.com. 7 8 For the Defendant Cell-Crete Corporation: 9 GARY BERTICEVICH ROBERT DAVIS 10 Ryan & Lifter 2000 Crow Canyon Place 11 Suite 400 San Ramon, California gberticevich@rallaw.com For the Defendant Madera Construction: 1 DENAE OLIVIERI 17 Sellar, Hazard & Lucia 201 North Civic Drive 18 Suite 145 Walnut Creek, California dolivieri@sellarlaw.com P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

19 For the Defendant Jeld-Wen, Inc., dba Summit Window & Patio Door: 2 LUKE G. PEARS-DICKSON 3 The Sieving Law Firm 100 Howe Avenue 4 Suite 220N Sacramento, California lpearsdickson@sievinglawfirm.com 7 8 For the Defendant Courtney Waterproofing: 9 KATHRYN KIM 10 Springel & Fink, LLP 575 Market Street 11 Suite 2200 San Francisco, California kkim@springelfink.com For the Defendants LDI Mechanical, Inc.; AMPAM LDI Mechanical: 1 YVONNE JORGENSEN 17 Van De Poel, Levy, Allen & Arneal, LLP 100 South Main Plaza 18 Suite P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

20 Walnut Creek, California For the Defendant Davey Roofing: 2 EDWIN NAKAGAWA Law Offices of Timothy R. Wagner Grant Street Suite 800-B 4 Concord, California edwin.nakagawa@aig.com. 7 For the Defendant Tara Coatings, Inc.: 8 DANICA CHANG Wait & Hufnagel West First Street Suite Claremont, California dchang@wait-hufnagel.com 12 For the Defendant Alliance Building Products: 14 MEAGAN TOM Wolfe & Wyman LLP 9 P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

21 N. California Boulevard Suite 45 1 Walnut Creek, California rjcollaco@wolfewyman.com P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

22 1 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 2 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA 3 ---O0O--- 4 CILKER APARTMENTS, LLC, 5 Plaintiff, vs. No. 1CV WESTERN NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION, et al., 8 9 Defendants. / 10 AND ALL RELATED CROSS-ACTIONS. / DEPOSITION OF LORIN MARK CHAPMAN 1 VOLUME VII 17 Taken before KIMBERLEY RICHARDSON, RPR, CCRR 18 CSR No June 2, P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

23 22 Aiken Welch Court Reporting 23 One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 250 Oakland, California (510) /(877) Fax (510) I N D E X 2 PAGE 3 EXAMINATION BY MR. ZIMMERMAN 4 EXAMINATION BY E X H I B I T S 11 NO. PAGE 12 Exhibit 981 BHA Case List Exhibit 982 Mr. Chapman's handwritten notes P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

24 DEPOSITION OF LORIN MARK CHAPMAN 2 3 BE IT REMEMBERED, that pursuant to Notice, and on 4 the 2nd day of June 201, commencing at the hour of 9:52 5 a.m., in the offices of Aiken Welch Court Reporters, 111 N. Market Street, Suite 300, San Jose, California, 7 before me, KIMBERLEY RICHARDSON, a Certified Shorthand 8 Reporter, personally appeared LORIN MARK CHAPMAN, 9 produced as a witness in said action, and being by me 10 first duly sworn, was thereupon examined as a witness in 11 said cause o0o APPEARANCES: P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

25 15 For the Plaintiff Cilker Apartments, LLC: 1 JON B. ZIMMERMAN Robinson & Wood, Inc North First Street San Jose, California jbz@robinsonwood.com For the Defendant Madera Framing, Inc.: 21 JOHN CASTRO 22 Boornazian, Jensen & Garthe th Street 23 Suite 1800 Oakland, California jcastro@bjg.com For the Defendant McLarand, Vasquez & Partners, Inc.: 2 STEPHEN B. LITCHFIELD Collins, Collins, Muir & Stewart LLP Harrison Street Suite Oakland, California slitchfield@ccmslaw.com 7 For the Defendant Dimetrius Painting: 8 JENN CRITTONDON 9 Ericksen, Arbuthnot 2300 Clayton Road 10 Suite 350. Concord, California gwood@ericksenarbuthnot.com P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

26 12 14 For the Defendant Pyramid Builders, Inc.: 15 BRYAN KERNEY 1 Fischer Kerney 888 Munras Avenue 17 Monterey, California bpk@fk-legal.com For the Defendant Joseph J. Albanese, Inc.: 21 JAMES HETHERINGTON 22 Goodman Neuman Hamilton, LLP 417 Montgomery Street 23 10th Floor San Francisco, California jhetherington@gnhllp.com For the Defendant Western National Construction: 2 SAMUEL M. DANSKIN Green & Hall East First Street 10th Floor 4 Santa Ana, California sdanskin@greenhall.com 7 P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

27 8 For the Defendant Pyramid Builders: 9 MARK PHILLIPS 10 Kramer, deboer & Keane, LLP 425 Market Street 11 Suite 2200 San Francisco, California mphillips@kdeklaw.com For the Defendant Los Nietos Construction: 1 JOSEPH LONG 17 Long Blumberg LLP 2950 Buskirk Avenue 18 Suite 315 Walnut Creek, California jlong@longblumberg.com For the Defendant Western National Construction: 22 JOYIA GREENFIELD 23 Lorber Greenfield Polito 985 Stowe Drive. 24 Poway, California sallen@lorberlaw.com P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

28 1 For the Defendant Casey-Fogli Concrete Contractors, Inc.: 2 THOMAS YEN 3 Law Offices of Michael Pollard 525 Market Street 4 Suite 2850 San Francisco, California thomas.yen@zurichna.com 7 8 For the Defendant Cell-Crete Corporation: 9 GARY BERTICEVICH Ryan & Lifter Crow Canyon Place Suite San Ramon, California gberticevich@rallaw.com 14 For the Defendant Madera Construction: 15 DENAE OLIVIERI 1 Sellar, Hazard & Lucia 201 North Civic Drive 17 Suite 145 Walnut Creek, California dolivirie@sellarlaw.com 19 P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

29 20 For the Defendants LDI Mechanical, Inc.; AMPAM LDI Mechanical: 21 YVONNE JORGENSEN 22 Van De Poel, Levy, Allen & Arneal, LLP South Main Plaza Suite Walnut Creek, California For the Defendant Davey Roofing: 2 EDWIN NAKAGAWA Law Offices of Timothy R. Wagner Grant Street Suite 800-B 4 Concord, California edwin.nakagawa@aig.com 7 For the Defendant Tara Coatings, Inc.: 8 DANICA CHANG Wait & Hufnagel West First Street Suite Claremont, California dchang@wait-hufnagel.com 12 For the Defendant Eastern Landscape: 14 GREGORY ESTABROOK Law Offices of David Wallis Harvard Street Suite Sacramento, California P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

30 For the Defendant Alliance Building Products: 20 REBECCA J. COLLACO Wolfe & Wyman LLP N. California Boulevard Suite Walnut Creek, California P:\DOCS\Western Nat.Cilker\Discovery\Deposition Transcripts\Chapman, Mark\Appearances docx

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA. Cross-Complainant Western National Construction ("Western") in this action.

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA. Cross-Complainant Western National Construction (Western) in this action. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 GREEN & HALL, A Professional Corporation MICHAEL J. PEPEK, State Bar No. 178238 mpepek@greenhall.com SAMUEL M. DANSKIN, State Bar No. 136044 sdanskin@greenhall.com MICHAEL A. ERLINGER,