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Protect Yourself in the Subcontract Against Escalating Materials Prices & Supply Chain Delays0
- Legally Speaking, Outlook & Trends, Payment, Risk Management
- May 25, 2021
By Timothy Woolford, Woolford Law, PC The good news for subcontractors is that the economy is beginning to take off following the Covid shutdown. The bad news, however, is that interruptions in the global supply chain and shortages in construction materials are causing delays and driving prices to all-time highs. The Wall Street Journal recently
READ MORETrademarks – What Subcontractors Need to Know to Protect their Brand0
- Best Practices, Legally Speaking, Risk Management
- January 25, 2021
By Benjamin S. Lowenthal, Hendrick, Phillips, Salzman & Siegel A subcontractor’s reputation is often among its most valuable assets. Embodying a subcontractor’s reputation is its brand. A subcontractor’s brand allows a subcontractor to distinguish itself from competitors, signify the consistent quality of its work, and create important goodwill with contractors, owners, and customers. Given the
READ MOREBuy-Sell Agreements: An Important Tool for Small Business Planning0
- Contracts, Legally Speaking, Risk Management
- November 23, 2020
By Joseph M. Kanfer, Esquire, Woolford Kanfer Law, P.C Buy-sell agreements are an important part of planning for subcontractors as well as other small businesses. A buy-sell agreement controls when and how owners of a company may sell their interests in the company to each other and to third parties. Buy-sell agreements can be used
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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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