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Cotney Construction Lobbying Advocates for the Construction Industry
Trent Cotney of Cotney Construction Law, the leading national law firm for construction, specialty trades and OSHA law, is pleased to announce the launch of a lobbying arm for the Construction Industry, Cotney Construction Lobbying. Employing professionals with backgrounds in law, business, politics and construction, Cotney Construction Lobbying will provide comprehensive ...
Big Brother in the Workplace
By Cotney Construction Law. So, your employees are using workplace technology for personal reasons, can you monitor their activities? Is their social media use subject to scrutiny when using the employer’s work phone or computer? The answer is unclear, but worth delving into as there may be some tricky employment ...
How OSHA is Trying to Reduce the Burden on Employers
By Cotney Construction Law for WSRCA. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is instituting a handful of new rules that took effect on July 15, 2019. The overarching goal of these updates is to streamline processes, decrease paperwork, and preserve funds. The final rule will lead to fourteen standards revisions related ...
Podcast: Non-Traditional Plan Helps Contractors Manage Legal Costs
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Taking a cue from the software industry, legal subscription model helps contractors leverage legal services that are necessary to protect their interests and businesses. I had the chance to speak with Ken Kelly, President of Kelly Roofing and RCS Influencer, at the AEC BuildTech conference held ...
June Was All About People and Projects and New Offerings
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Here’s what’s trending on RoofersCoffeeShop® this past month. Stories about people are always interesting to the readers here at RoofersCoffeeShop and that proved to be the case once again as we took a look at our most-read stories from the month of June. Coming in a ...
A Look at Arbitration Misconceptions
By Cotney Construction Law. Arbitrations are less costly than a litigation because arbitrators are not held to the same constraints of a court litigation. A construction arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process in which a non-affiliated third party, better known as an arbitrator, reviews a case between two or more ...
Ten Cotney Construction Law Attorneys Named 2019 Florida Super Lawyers
Cotney Construction Law (CCL) announced that ten attorneys have been selected to the 2019 Florida Super Lawyers & Rising Stars Lists. Super Lawyers recognizes outstanding attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their legal practice. Each year, no more than 5 percent of lawyers in the state are chosen as Super Lawyers ...
Employers Need to Tread Carefully When Using Drones on Projects
By Kyle Gretel, Cotney Construction Law. Potential pitfalls of drone use on construction sites. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more colloquially known as drones, are the topic of conversation in multiple industries and are used in a variety of different applications. From delivery of a kidney to a transplant recipient to aerial photography, ...
Disrupting the Norm Leads to Success and Happy Customers
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Sometimes you have to shake up the traditional way of doing things to provide an even better level of legal services for roofing contractors. At the 2019 International Roofing Expo, Cotney Construction Law dropped a game changer on the roofing industry – a subscription model for ...
Understanding the Proposed New Overtime Salary Threshold
By Cotney Construction Law. For the first time since 2004, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would change the current salary threshold to receive overtime. Currently, employees with a salary below $455 per week ($23,660 annually) must be paid overtime if they work more than ...
