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The Construction Law Bar: It’s a Good Place to Be
For this week’s Guest Post Friday, we welcome a good friend, Todd Metz. Todd is a partner in the Northern Virginia office of construction law firm Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald. Todd is also Immediate Past Chair of the Virginia State Bar Construction Law and Public Contracts Section. In two weeks the Virginia State Bar’s […]
More Musings on Mechanic’s Liens in Virginia
It is not news that the recent construction economy has not been good. Private money is not flowing into construction as it had been in the past and public projects are moving more slowly. Payment disputes leading to mechanic’s lien claims and payment bond claims are rampant because of the shaky nature of the payment […]
Whence Green Building?
It has been a while since I last “mused” on sustainable (or “green”) building. Since my last post on the subject much has been in the news, and most of it negative in some way. While much good has occurred to advance the sustainable building cause, recent news on this front has shed an unnecessarily […]
LEED AP Update- Worth It For a Lawyer?
LEED 3.0 is here and with it the new CMP requirements for a specialty designation. As I think about this new world of specialty designation outlined by the USGBC, I am torn regarding an attorney’s need to update the designation. I learned a lot while studying for the LEED AP exam, and received my designation […]