For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Musings, we welcome back a good friend and fellow construction attorney, Scott Wolfe Jr. Scott is a construction attorney who practices law through his firm Wolfe Law Group in California, Washington, Oregon and Louisiana. He is also the founder of Zlien, a nationwide preliminary notice and mechanic’s lien filing service. […]
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 […]
Musings on Construction Claim Changes
Everyone knows that the construction economy is not exactly stellar right now and has not been for a while. Groups from the AGC to the federal government are discussing the issues with the building sector. I have discussed some ways that I believe that a Virginia or any other contractor can distinguish itself from competitors […]
Getting Slow Paid? Try These Tips
Image via Wikipedia As ENR has reported recently, slow payment can and does sap a contractor’s strength. Slow payment puts a contractor in a serious bind. On the one hand, it is getting paid, so why rock the boat? On the other, the contractor has to pay the down-line subcontractors in the time specified in […]
Virginia Construction Law Roundup
Recently the state and federal courts here in the Commonwealth of Virginia made two construction law rulings that I thought you all would find interesting. The first of these involves the infamous Chinese drywall discussed in this blog on a couple of occasions. In another ruling in the continuing saga of Dragas Management (remember the […]