The Infrastructure Gold Rush – Opportunities for Minority Businesses
7/30/2018 | Articles & Alerts, General, Land Use, Zoning & Development
Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ “Report Card for America’s Infrastructure” depicts the condition of our nation’s infrastructure in the familiar form of a school report card. Letter grades are assigned based on the physical condition and needed investments for improvement. Sadly, for 2017, the grade is a D+. A similar report by Pennsylvania civil engineers has found that Pennsylvania faces immense challenges in maintaining and modernizing its infrastructure. Repairs are desperately needed to roads, bridges, […]
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Land Use, Zoning, and Development
PENNSYLVANIA ENACTS AMENDMENTS TO ITS CONTRACTOR AND SUBCONTRACTOR PAYMENT ACT
7/26/2018 | General
Pennsylvania’s Contractor and Subcontractor Payment Act (“CASPA”) was enacted in 1994 to address construction industry payment abuses between owners, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers. The underlying purpose of CASPA is to protect the payment rights of contractors and subcontractors and to encourage fair dealing among parties to a construction contract. The statute provides rules and deadlines to ensure prompt payment, to discourage unreasonable withholding of payment, and to address the timing of progress payments and retainages. Under circumstances prescribed in the […]
Congratulations! Kevin Amadio
3/17/2018 | Construction Blog, General, Media
Congratulations! Kevin Amadio of the construction practice group has been appointed co-chair of the Construction and Public Contract Law Committee of the Montgomery Bar Association for 2018.
THE LEGAL RISKS OF SOCIAL MEDIA – Recognize and Deal with the Issues Before a Lawsuit Arises
5/17/2017 | Articles & Alerts, General
Entrepreneurial risk comes in all shapes and sizes. In today’s age of seemingly limitless technological advancements, businesses of all types and sizes must use social media to stay connected to their potential and existing customers. However, the old maxim “can’t live with it, can’t live without it” is particularly applicable to social media. Attorneys (and I speak from experience) always look forward to new laws, the overhaul of existing laws and new trends in the law. The new […]
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Business and Corporate Law, Commercial Litigation
A Brief History of Land Use Regulation
2/14/2017 | Kaplin Stewart Blog
Land use regulation encompasses a wide variety of laws that impose restrictions on the rights of landowners. These regulations may include rules relating to building size and zoning rules, among various other permutations. Fundamentally, all land use regulation is intended to burden a landowner’s use of their real estate property in some way. As late as the turn of the 20th century, most cities in the United States lacked zoning laws altogether — in fact, it was not until 1916 […]
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