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By Heidi J. Ellsworth, RCS Partner. Register today for National Roofing Legal Resource Center (NRLRC) 40th Anniversary Seminar in New York City, September 18-21, 2019. Legal issues are a fact of life in the roofing industry, and roofing contractors need to make the most of every resource available. Learning from construction ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

RCS Influencer Trent Cotney shares what you should include in your service and maintenance contracts. Roofing season is well underway, and your crews are likely beginning to feel the heat; both literally – from the summer sun – and instinctively – from an ever-growing backlog of work. However, sooner-or-later the weather ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

By Heidi J. Ellsworth, HJE Consulting. Register today and receive $100 discount through RoofersCoffeeShop® for NRLRC September Seminar in New York. Legal issues are a fact of life in the roofing industry, and roofing contractors need to make the most of every resource available.Compliance with regulations, litigation, and product claims and disputes ... Read More

By Heidi J. Ellsworth, RCS Partner Membership, seminars, and fun; join us in booth #130 at the 2019 FRSA Show July 17-19, 2019 RoofersCoffeeShop® will be joining many great manufacturers, distributors and associations as they share new ideas and ongoing promotions with Florida roofing contractors. FRSA proudly hosts one of the ... Read More

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, ... Read More

By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Here’s what’s trending on RoofersCoffeeShop® this past month. It was appropriate that our most popular article in May was about National Safety Stand Down Week, May 6 – 10, 2019. Tremco Roofing’s article about their participation in the program along with their use of iAuditor to ... Read More

RCS Influencer Trent Cotney says that much like the construction industry, one of the biggest costs of doing business at his firm in the last twelve months is recruiting high-level talent. Having the right employees on your team can be one of the quickest ways to grow your business and scale ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Trent Cotney of Cotney Construction Law, LLP was recently named General Counsel of the National Slate Association (NSA). As General Counsel, Cotney will provide legal assistance to the association’s board of directors with regard to the organizational structure, bylaws, operations, and governance policies. The National Slate Association is a non-profit organization that ... Read More