News & Publications

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 ...

In litigation, claims are subject to statutes of limitations. Because the passage of time can affect such things as witness memory and evidence preservation, states pass statutes of limitations providing that claims cannot be brought after the ...

Perhaps good things really do come to those who wait. Ending eighteen months of anticipation, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its ruling on the challenge to the FCC’s July 2015 Declaratory Ruling and Order (the ...

Cohen Seglias Partner Chris Carusone was quoted in the Observer-Reporter article, “District Judge Mark Wilson to be Mentored to Resolve Conduct Complaints,” in regard to his representation of the judge. District Judge Mark Wilson will ...

A recent federal appeals court decision rejected a challenge to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s new rule for respirable crystalline silica (silica) exposure in the construction industry (the Silica Rule), keeping the rule ...

Cohen Seglias Partner Christopher Carusone was quoted in the Central Penn Business Journal article, “Government Pa. House Panel OKs So-Called ‘Clean-Slate’ Bill.” The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee voted ...

When condominium unit owners or cooperative shareholders opt to have renovations or other construction work performed in apartments, the salesmen and contractors must have home improvement licenses issued by the New York City Department of Consumer ...

Many married couples who bought property together prior to marriage are missing out on an important benefit of marriage: holding property as tenants by the entirety. Unmarried couples often hold property as joint tenants with the right of ...

Attorneys are bound by developing ethical rules and duties relating to e-discovery. These rules and duties deserve emphasis because courts, and clients, are increasingly concerned about the manner in which attorneys conduct discovery and, ...

Paul Thaler is quoted in the Retraction Watch article “PNAS asks D.C. court to dismiss $10 million defamation lawsuit,” in his capacity as counsel for Mark Jacobson. WASHINGTON, DC — Lawyers for the National Academy of Sciences have ...

Cohen Seglias partner Paul Thaler is quoted in the Earth & Space Science News article, ” Scientific Row over Renewables Leads to Free Speech Legal Fight”, in regards to his representation of  Mark Z. Jacobson. After a leading ...

The marketing department recently sat down with the Firm’s new Chief Operating Officer, Kathleen Garrity. While Kathleen has been with the Firm for four years as Executive Director, she was promoted to Chief Operating Officer effective January 1, ...

Good news for federal construction contractors: a recent Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (Board) decision confirmed that waiver defenses can defeat government demands for strict compliance with contract requirements. On December 19, 2017, ...

Virtually every transaction for the sale of construction materials involves an exchange of the contracting parties’ respective terms and conditions, along with several documents including credit applications, price quotes, purchase orders, order ...

If you are a union contractor, you are probably making contributions to one or more union pension funds every month. These pension funds, known as multi-employer pension plans (MEPs), rely on a number of employers paying their share toward a common ...