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Those familiar with New Jersey practice are well aware that the courts of this state strongly encourage settlements as a matter of public policy because they facilitate the amicable resolution of disputes and lighten the increasing load of ...

[Note from the Editor: Due to an inadvertent editing error, omitted from our post entitled NJ Supreme Court Gets It Right! Consequential Damages Caused By A Subcontractor’s Defective Construction Work Is Insured was the fact that the property ...

While use of the term “groundbreaking” in a construction law article may want for originality, it is an accurate description for recent amendments to the Pennsylvania Mechanics’ Lien Law. The amendments—signed into law on Oct. ...

Philadelphia law now requires everyone working at a construction or demolition site to have completed OSHA-10 Safety Training. Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections (L&I) and the Mid-Atlantic Construction Safety Council ...

This article originally appeared in Corporate Counsel Five years ago, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it had charged GlaxoSmithKline Vice President and Associate General Counsel Lauren Stevens with two counts of obstruction of justice and ...

Contractors doing work on publicly-owned projects in Pennsylvania may find it more difficult to recover statutory penalties and attorneys’ fees if the owner withholds funds in bad faith. Pennsylvania’s Procurement Code, which governs ...

We are pleased to announce that five Cohen Seglias attorneys have been included in the 2017 Edition of Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer review publication in the legal profession, in five practice areas: Ed Seglias Litigation ...

Cohen Seglias was pleased to have Katherine Piazza, Christopher Reese, and Kimberly Saginario join the Philadelphia office as our 2016 Summer Associates. They worked closely with the associates and partners in the Firm’s Construction, ...

Research misconduct inquiries and investigations are conducted by committees appointed by an institution’s research integrity officer. The committee members are typically scientists, not lawyers. Not only must they analyze the science in question, ...

A common issue that arises in connection with scientific research misconduct cases concerns what should be done with publications that contain a research record that is the subject of the allegations. This issue can arise even when an inquiry or ...

Over the years, members of boards of directors for condominiums and cooperative apartment buildings have come to believe that the business judgment rule articulated in Levandusky v. One Fifth Ave. Apt. Corp., 75 N.Y.2d 530, 540 (1990) provides ...

Brief Note: Greetings from the Editorial Team at Construction in Brief! We hope you had an enjoyable summer. We are gearing up for an exciting Fall with the opening of our new office in New York. Contractors working on residential projects in New ...

While use of the term “groundbreaking” in a construction law article may want for originality, it is an accurate description for recent amendments to the Pennsylvania Mechanics’ Lien Law. The amendments—signed into law on Oct. 14, ...

In New Jersey, the time period within which a project owner may bring claims for design or construction defects, called the statute of limitations, generally begins upon substantial completion of a project. This means that a contractor or designer ...

In recent years, a mechanics’ lien claimant who held a contract with an owner on projects in the District of Columbia may have received an unwelcome surprise when attempting to file its mechanics’ lien. If the claimant did not include physical ...

Many property owners lose sight of the fact that an oil and gas lease is a two-way contract. There are many legal duties that the landowner owes to the operator. One duty that is typically overlooked is the title warranty, where the landowner ...

We hope you had an enjoyable summer. We are gearing up for an exciting Fall with the opening of our new office in New York.

Over the past year, many states experienced budget crises that threaten public works spending and, in some cases, caused entire project shut downs. In Pennsylvania, a stalemate over the budget for Fiscal Year 2016-2017 lasted almost nine months, ...

The long-awaited Final Rule addressing changes to the Small Business Administration’s Mentor-Protégé program was published in the Federal Register this week. The Mentor-Protégé program that was limited to 8(a) Small Business Concerns has ...

What happens when a deed is unclear and the parties to a transaction involving oil and gas interests are long deceased? How do the heirs to the parties involved resolve their disputes? This is a relevant issue courts and practitioners in ...