Originally posted 2013-03-18 10:10:22.
Construction attorney, entrepreneur, and good friend Scott Wolfe (@scottwolfejr and @zlienit) recently posted his thoughts and endorsement of a uniform national mechanic’s lien law. Aside from the interesting photo of his dog in sunglasses (I still want to know how he got the dog to sit still for the photo), Scott made some interesting arguments for why we should abandon the state by state, property law based, mechanic’s lien regime in favor of a national uniform law along the lines of the UCC or other uniform procedural statutes.
The post got me thinking. As one that firmly believes that smaller units of government work more effectively to deal with the very fact specific nature of business and construction transactions, even I can see how such a change would be tempting. This is particularly true for national construction suppliers and those few construction contractors with a national, multi-state, construction business. In many ways, having these rules “nationalized” would make the lives of those that have this sort of geographically wide construction business much easier.
