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Brief Note: Greetings from the Editorial Team at Construction in Brief! In this issue, you will learn valuable information regarding performance specifications, as well as for subcontractors on federal projects in Maryland, Virginia, ...

In this issue, you will learn valuable information regarding performance specifications, as well as for subcontractors on federal projects in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, which represents government contractors, corporate clients, midsize privately held businesses and construction companies, has added a former acquisition law specialist from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate ...

Cohen Seglias Partner Michael F. McKenna and Associate Anthony J. Tavormina Represented Randolph Tennis Center and Grand Slam Tennis in large jury verdict. Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, a law firm representing corporate clients, ...

Law360 published an article about Michael F. McKenna and Anthony J. Tavormina’s representation of Randolph Tennis Center and Grand Slam Tennis in a large jury verdict. A New Jersey jury has found three companies involved in the construction ...

For nearly 30 years, New York City property owners have been coping with the so called “drive by ADA violation” litigation. These cases are less about correcting ADA violations or improving handicapped accessibility than generating attorney fees ...

For the firm’s first build day of 2018, the Cohen Seglias volunteer team returned to Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia‘s Diamond Park site. The volunteers, Anthony Bottenfield, Jeff Jakob, Megan Jaskolka, Michelle Marano, Joseph ...

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC has announced the hires of Michael F. McKenna and Anthony J. Tavormina as attorneys in the firm’s Newark office. McKenna is a Partner and Tavormina is an Associate, both in the firm’s Construction ...

We are pleased to announce that ten Cohen Seglias attorneys were selected to this year’s Super Lawyers list and ten others were selected to the Rising Stars list. The Super Lawyers list recognizes no more than 5 percent of attorneys in each state ...

Cohen Seglias partner Paul Thaler is quoted in the collaboration piece between Undark and Retraction Watch. This story is a product of a collaboration between Undark and Retraction Watch. Sometime after 2010 — he isn’t exactly sure when — ...

With the most recent development boom and the inexplicable omission of the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) to ensure the safety of adjacent buildings from undermining by developers, it now falls to property owners to understand how to ...

Cohen Seglias partner Lisa Wampler is quoted in the BreakingGround article, “Managing Risk in a Boom Market”. Lisa gave advice for contractors on how to handle the 2018-2020 market boom for construction in Western PA. By: Jeff ...

Many, if not all, construction subcontracts contain a provision requiring the subcontractor to name the general contractor, owner, and others as “additional insureds” on the subcontractor’s liability insurance policies. Contractors include ...

On May 1, Cohen Seglias joined Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia at their annual Building HOPE Luncheon as a Block Builder sponsor. Cohen Seglias is committed to Habitat’s mission of creating safe, sustainable, and affordable housing with ...

We are pleased to announce that Cohen Seglias is recognized in the 2018 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, the preeminent legal ranking of attorneys and law firms. We could not have done it without our clients. When ...

Attention all PTAC Counselors: Veteran-owned business eligibility requirements are about to change. In January of this year, both the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued proposed rules that would ...

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro took the helm of the Attorney General’s Office (OAG) in January 2017. Since his election, the OAG has been extremely active in conducting investigations and filing lawsuits in matters affecting a ...

In December 2017, Paul Thaler sat on a panel concerning the area of scientific misconduct investigations for the ORI conference. A paper resulted from the panel’s efforts and is published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). ...

Whether implicit or explicit, every cooperative and condominium board has certain maintenance policies. Some, such as the policy that tenants or unit owners are responsible for their own decorating and upgrades, are similar from building to ...

Recent OSHA activity indicates possible changes in the scope and enforcement of the newly-created Improve Tracking of Workplace Injury and Illnesses Rule (Electronic Reporting Rule). OSHA intends to collect less data than the rule requires in order ...