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Whether you are building, remodeling, or renovating, construction projects are expensive undertakings that require significant planning. Often, multiple parties are involved in the project: the property owner, architects and designers, general and subcontractors, and other professionals as needed. Depending on the size of your job, multiple contracts may be required to nail down the specifics of the project – the parties involved, the scope of the work to be performed, the schedule and deadlines, materials and costs, and more. But what happens when things go wrong?

If you’re in the process of establishing a business, choosing a legal structure is one of the earliest and most important decisions you’ll face. Many websites offer online guidance and may even provide you with incorporation documents or partnership agreements, promising to make it quick and easy.

Buying a home is likely to be one of the most important purchases you will ever make. In addition to the significant expense, real estate transactions are different from other purchases because they are governed by real estate law and can involve complex legal issues and documents.

Tom provided timely legal updates to construction industry professionals in a zoom forum held April 29th hosted by the Keystone Contractors Association. Tom shared recent developments in enforcement of the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage laws and advice on how to best approach effective dispute resolution during the COVID-19 impacts to court proceedings.

When traumatic disruptive things happen, like the current COVID-19 pandemic, they create many obvious and foreseeable impacts; but also many not so obvious or foreseeable impacts; and, when these events occur, they not only cause financial issues but also cause a host of related legal issues.

Tom recently took part as guest contributor in the Building PA Podcast produced by the Keystone Contractors Association (KCA).

Approximately one year ago the Pennsylvania State Legislature passed a law entitled Construction Industry Employee Verification Act.  This is a reminder that the statute is now in effect as of October 7, 2020. 

The Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, in announcing the Department’s new overtime rule, projected that up to 251,000 or more people employed in Pennsylvania could soon see overtime compensation in their paychecks where there was none before.

In a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision, the Court has given the green light to employees to file certain retaliation claims with a state court under the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Law without first filing a charge or complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.