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Brief Note: Summer is here and along with it sunscreen, beaches, and BBQs! With more new faces at the Firm, four summer associates, new volunteer opportunities, and an exciting office move—we’ve got lots of news to share. Enjoy the 2014 Second ...

Ask most subcontractors and suppliers their biggest concern on a project and they will probably tell you it is (not surprisingly) getting paid. The concern is a valid one. Standing in the way of a material supplier’s payment, for instance, could ...

The employment landscape can be hard to navigate without the right toolset. Attorneys in our Labor & Employment group are constantly being asked, “Can my employee sue me for…?” Asking the question after an employee files a claim is too ...

Business review websites such as Angie’s List or Yelp are increasingly a venue for anonymous posters to wreak havoc on the reputations of contractors and other businesses with negative and often defamatory reviews. Although these venues seem safe ...

Prime, or general, contractors working on public projects in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, whether state or federal, are required to post performance and payment bonds. Such bonds protect the owner against liens placed by subcontractors for ...

Summer is here and along with it sunscreen, beaches, and BBQs! With more new faces at the Firm, four summer associates, new volunteer opportunities, and an exciting office move—we’ve got lots of news to share.

If you participate in federal government procurement programs, either as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor, listen up!  Your small business size status may have changed on July 14, 2014 as a result of an interim rule issued by the Small ...

It is no secret within the construction industry that public-private partnership (P3) project delivery has recently become all the rage.  The demand for infrastructure repairs and improvements is high, and the public dollars needed to fund them are ...

Professional football is known as a tough sport with an equally tough behind-the-scenes locker room culture. Jonathan Martin’s departure from the Miami Dolphins on Oct. 28, 2013, perhaps signaled a change. Press reports indicated that Martin left ...

Over the last decade, limited liability companies (LLCs) have become the entity of choice for real estate investments in most jurisdictions. The LLC entity offers great flexibility in establishing the rights, obligations and economic terms between ...

Cohen Seglias is pleased to welcome its 2014 Summer Associates. Kayleen Egan, Gary Repke, Jacqueline Ryan, and Katherine Tohanczyn, have joined the Firm’s Philadelphia office, working in the Construction Group. Kayleen Egan Kayleen completed ...

By: Jennifer M. Horn, Daniel E. Fierstein and Katherine Tohanczyn As many federal government contractors know, the False Claims Act (FCA) is a tool used by the federal government to deter fraud. Those found to have knowingly submitted false ...

Philadelphia, PA – June 2, 2014 – Chambers & Partners has recognized Cohen Seglias’ Construction Practice Group in the 2014 edition of Chambers USA.  Additionally, Roy Cohen and Marc Furman were identified as Leaders in the fields of ...

Jason Copley, Anthony Bottenfield, Amy Kirby, Jennifer Budd, Bob Ruggieri, John Di Santo, and all four of our summer associates, Kayleen Egan, Gary Repke, Jacqueline Ryan, and Katherine Tohanczynat, participated in our first Cohen Seglias volunteer ...

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC is proud to announce its support for Habitat for Humanity. Cohen Seglias shares Habitat’s commitment to eliminating poverty housing through building safe, sustainable, and affordable homes in ...

Did this winter’s extreme amounts of snow, sleet, freezing rain and abnormal temperatures leave your project out in the cold? This winter wreaked havoc on construction projects across the region. Perhaps you learned this the hard way when your ...

As a commercial collection attorney, I have the benefit of seeing and analyzing credit applications from a wide array of clients. However, by the time I receive a client’s credit application, typically the account is already in arrears and ...

You have built your business from the ground up. You have nurtured and grown a legacy for your family. You want to retire. What will happen to your business when you leave it? We should start with a few statistics for those of you who think you’ve ...

As we first reported back in January of 2012, the Pennsylvania Superior Court issued a decision in Bricklayers of Western Pennsylvania Combined Funds v. Scott’s Development Co. that significantly changed the meaning of the Pennsylvania ...

While by no means a recent law, Section 508 of the Pennsylvania Public School Code, 24 P.S. § 5-508, is becoming one that school districts are repeatedly relying upon to avoid paying contractors for work performed outside the original scope of ...