I am a subcontractor and have filed intent to lien. The GC wants to have a meeting to discuss. Do I need an attorney present? Or do you ace advice on how to handle.
This may come off as being self-serving advice, but I think any attorney would automatically recommend that you have counsel present at such a meeting. Obviously, this is a business decision that only you can make, given that “lawyering up” may have a chilling effect on what otherwise could have been a production meeting. Only you can gage the quality of the relationship and the level of trust with this contractor. Beyond that, the advice we would give is to have all your ducks in a row and ready for filing, and don’t delay a single day in filing or sending notices relying on anything they say if it would cause you to miss a filing on notice deadline.