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While it would be nice to envision a construction payment world in which retainage withholding is unnecessary, retainage is currently a tool perhaps best classified as a necessary evil. While...

More than 200 years ago, Virginia’s most famous son invented the mechanics lien concept to protect contractors and suppliers against non-payment on construction projects. In the 2015 legislation, Virginia’s lawmakers...

  The Ohio Supreme Court chimed in on “pay if paid” clauses last week, and it’s not good for subcontractors. In Transtar Elec., Inc. v. A.E.M. Elec. Servs. Corp., the court...

This guest post comes from friend of the blog, Robert Wise, a construction law attorney in Mississippi (Sharpe & Wise PLLC).  Robert was influential in the drafting and passing of...

Generally, mechanics liens provide strong protection to parties in the construction industry because they encumber the actual property being improved by the lien claimant’s furnishing of labor and/or material. The...

In the world of news and content, it has become a late-December tradition to publish articles reviewing trends and news from the past year. We follow that great tradition here,...

As I’ve mentioned many times before, securing extensions of credit should be one of the foundational components of any successful credit policy, at least for companies in the construction industry.[quote...

This post examines the interpretation of Arizona pay when paid clauses. Pay when paid clauses are disfavored in Arizona, but maybe enforceable sometimes.

A couple days ago, Scott posted a query: How Can Clients Handle Notice Compliance?  That post was, in part, geared toward trying to frame the problem of mechanic lien notice...