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A Difficult Meeting0
- Best Practices, Legally Speaking
- October 27, 2020
By Bruce E. Kauffman, Esquire and Brad E. Kauffman, Esquire It was a very difficult and upsetting ride home for me from a recent meeting with a subcontractor client, his wife, and their certified public accountant. The company, a specialty subcontractor, is involved in two separate lawsuits in which it is owed two hundred thousand
READ MORELegal Considerations for the Next Generation of Construction Professionals0
- Improving Productivity, Legally Speaking, Workforce & Professional Development
- September 22, 2020
by Mark A. Cobb, Cobb Law Group As a construction law firm we are accustomed to preventing clients’ problems through developing good contracts and implementing better business practices. We are also accustomed to helping solve immediate, critical problems such as payment issues and pending lawsuit claims. But, when it comes down to a better way
READ MOREWhat Can Be Done About Bid Shopping?0
- Ethics, Legally Speaking
- August 25, 2020
By Don Gregory, Kegler, Brown Hill & Ritter “Bid shopping” occurs when a general contractor discloses the bid price of one subcontractor (or suppliers) to its competitors in an attempt to obtain a lower bid than the one on which the general contractor based its bid to the owner. Put another way, bid shopping occurs
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Don’t Overlook Ethics and Social Responsibility in 2020 and Beyond0
- Ethics, Legally Speaking, Risk Management
- August 25, 2020
By Tim Woolford, Esq., Woolford Kanfer Law, P.C. Corporate social responsibility and ethics are more important than ever before, particularly in light of recent events that have garnered national attention this summer. Subcontractors that fail to recognize the importance of being perceived in their communities as socially responsible and ethical will eventually experience damage to
READ MORESubcontractor Delay and Disruption Claims in the Time of COVID-190
- Best Practices, Construction in the Courts, Contracts, COVID-19, Documentation, Legally Speaking, Risk Management
- July 28, 2020
By: Jim Sienicki and Ed Hermes, Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. Delay and disruption claims are always a risk in the best conditions on a construction site. Never more so than during the global pandemic brought about by COVID-19. Since President Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency on March 12, 2020, most contractors, subcontractors,
READ MOREWhat Is Your Company’s Post-COVID-19 Liquidity Strategy?0
- Best Practices, Legally Speaking, Risk Management
- June 23, 2020
By Tyler Pare, principal and performance practice leader, FMI; and Alex Miller, managing director, FMI As the smoke begins to clear on the global pandemic, liquidity management will be a business imperative for the foreseeable future. Both reeling from economic shockwaves induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. national economy and the Built Environment are
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Subcontractors Should Have A Plan To Get Paid
- Legally Speaking, Payment
- December 18, 2023
Protecting the Right to Payment
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- October 24, 2023
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