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"Solar energy construction has increased significantly in recent years across the United States, with some forecasters expecting another rise of at least 75% for 2024. This growth in solar projects results in good measure from existing and additional tax credits continued and implemented through the...
The work of subcontractors is largely guided by the written contracts to which they agree, making those contracts important to their company’s success. Ideally, contracts should be balanced, and they should allocate risk to the party able to control the risk, but that is often not the case. Though...
On May 25, 2023, the Illinois legislature passed HB 2878, a colossal 195-page bill, that impacts numerous public procurement laws, including curbing the percentage of retainage that local governments may withhold from contractors on public construction projects in Illinois. On June 22, 2023, the...
Contractors could start seeing six-figure fines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the next few months thanks to sweeping policy changes implemented earlier this year. In a press release and two internal memoranda issued January 26, 2023, the Department of Labor (DOL)...
As construction is truly a team sport, a contractor’s success hinges on the contributions of all team members—the laborers and tradesman, the project managers and office personnel, c-suite executives, and, yes, the company’s lawyer. Too often, however, construction companies turn to counsel as a...
In this article, Bill Warren, a partner in the Firm's Government Contracts Practice, describes the current PA municipal policies applied in assessing building permit fees on public projects undertaken by school districts, counties and other public entities and the recommended approach to challenging...
Publication: American Bar Association ABA Business Law Section December 2018 The Business Law Section of the American Bar Association has published a 2018 supplement to The Law of Truth in Lending, a 1700-page treatise published in 2014, co-edited by Saul Ewing of Counsel John Ropiequet. The 900...