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Now that we have ushered in the New Year, it is the perfect time to take a look back at how Governor Phil Murphy and the New Jersey legislature brought about a multitude of changes for New Jersey employers in 2019. In the last year alone, New Jersey ...

Employers in Pennsylvania should stay on their toes as the Pennsylvania attorney general (AG) announced charges against a major mechanical contractor engaged in numerous public works projects for crimes arising from a prevailing wage dispute. This ...

Cohen Seglias is pleased to announce the promotions of Matthew Gioffre and Michael Metz-Topodas to Partners of the firm, effective January 1, 2020. Cohen Seglias Managing Partner George Pallas commented, “On behalf of everyone at the firm, I ...

John Greenhall and Lisa Wampler host a monthly legal minute featured in The NEXT Academy Podcast with Chad Jones and Cody Phillips. For their inaugural legal minute, John and Lisa discuss how contractors can protect themselves from inefficiencies ...

In November 2018, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) proposed new Title IX regulations concerning sexual harassment, including sexual assault, and received over 100,000 comments during the public comment period. As of today, the regulations have ...

During the term of the Obama-era National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), we saw longstanding employer rules and policies upended. However, the current NLRB recently issued both a new rule and several decisions that revert back to those long-standing, ...

Structural steel fabricators occupy a unique place on construction projects. Their steelwork has substantial cost and is fundamental to the construction, and they often share design responsibilities with several other parties. As construction ...

Structural steel fabricators occupy a unique place in construction projects. Their steelwork has a substantial cost and is fundamental to the construction, and they often share design responsibilities with several other parties. As construction ...

Our newsletter team recently sat down with the Chair of the firm’s Green Building Group, Lane Kelman. Q: Tell us a little about your practice and the Green Building Group. A: My group understands the unique issues that arise with green ...

Despite the construction industry’s few areas of certainty, contractors can invariably count on facing an OSHA compliance inspection at some point. These visits are meant to ensure everyone on-site is complying with OSHA’s many and detailed ...

As I sit here and write this article, we have experienced the first today of the televised impeachment hearings. To say that my wife was interested would be a massive understatement. She’s a true political junkie and she had the DVR running all ...

In today’s world of texting and emails, individuals regularly communicate via these written forms of communication using their mobile devices for both business and personal matters. On construction projects, it is no secret that emails largely ...

On July 30, 2019, Pennsylvania’s adoption of the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act (RUAA) officially went into effect. This new law should prompt all owners, contractors, subcontractors, or anyone else involved in the construction industry to ...

Happy holidays from the editorial team at Cohen Seglias! In our final issue of 2019, you will learn the pros and cons of arbitration provisions in construction contracts, the legal implications of text messages, and how to challenge OSHA citations ...

Happy holidays from the editorial team at Cohen Seglias! In our final issue of 2019, you will learn the pros and cons of arbitration provisions in construction contracts, the legal implications of text messages, and how to challenge OSHA citations ...

Cohen Seglias is pleased to announce that Sally J. Daugherty has joined the firm as senior counsel in our Wilmington, DE office. Sally brings over three decades of experience representing small and medium-sized businesses throughout the Mid-Atlantic ...

While corporations and their officers/employees have long been the focus of federal grand jury investigations, Pennsylvania prosecutors targeting corporate crime using the powers of a county/multicounty investigating grand jury is of more recent ...

Cohen Seglias is proud to continue our tradition of supporting various children’s charities throughout the holiday season with toy collections and monetary donations. Cohen Seglias matches all contributions. If you would like to make a donation, ...

Under the Department of Labor’s new overtime rules, which become effective January 1, 2020, all employees with a salary of less than $35,568 must be treated as hourly employees entitled to overtime compensation whenever they work more than 40 ...

New York City, particularly gentrifying areas of Brooklyn, Harlem, and Washington Heights, are seeing an upsurge of deed theft. Attorneys, ar­chitects, title companies, real estate brokers, agents, contractors, devel­opers and construction ...