Thoughts on construction law from Christopher G. Hill, Virginia construction lawyer, LEED AP, mediator, and member of the Virginia Legal Elite in Construction Law

Category Archives: Mechanic’s Liens

Fun and Learning at the 39th Annual Construction Law and Public Contracts Seminar

Originally posted 2018-11-12 16:00:54. On November 2nd and 3rd, construction attorneys from Virginia and surrounding jurisdictions gathered in Charlottesville for the 39th Annual Construction and Public Contracts seminar co-hosted by the Virginia State Bar’s Construction Law and Public Contracts Section and Virginia CLE.  This was also the first year in a while where I was

Navigating Complex Preliminary Notice Requirements

Originally posted 2016-02-26 09:00:17. For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Musings, we welcome back a good friend, Scott Wolfe. Scott is the founder of Levelset, a cloud-based platform that gives construction industry participants control over their financial risk and payment processes. The Levelset platform manages the mechanics lien compliance process for all parties

What Contractors Can Learn from Smurfit and Quimonda

Originally posted 2016-11-24 10:01:00. Image via Wikipedia It will come as no shock to you that the economy has put a hit on the construction industry. Left and right we hear about developers and contractors hitting the skids, both through bankruptcy and otherwise. Personally, I take the view that the construction industry will end up

Keep Your Construction Claims Alive in Crazy Economic Times

Originally posted 2020-04-06 09:00:29. Coronavirus is dominating the news.  Construction in Virginia is facing what is at best an uncertain future and at worst a series of large scale shutdowns due to COVID-19.  The number of cases seem to grow almost exponentially on a daily basis while states and the federal government try and patch

Maybe Close Enough Still Counts with Mechanic’s Liens?

Originally posted 2020-05-05 14:01:50. Remember that case where “substantial compliance” was enough for the proper enforcement of your mechanic’s lien rights?  Remember how I said maybe it was an outlier?  Remember how the Virginia General Assembly modified the statute and the statutory forms to account for the ambiguity discussed in the Desai case? Remember how