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Legal Issues

  • Business: Are Your Contracts Bulletproof?

    Are your contracts bulletproof?

     
  • Judge Ponders Army Corps Liability in Katrina Catastrophe

     
  • Legal: Negotiating an End to a Contract

    Negotiating an end to a contract

     
  • Legal: When the Customer Won't Pay

    When the customer won't pay

     
  • Multifamily Firms Rebid Contracts to Cut Costs

    While the recession has chipped away at the balance sheets of many multifamily firms, it’s also presented opportunities to cut down on some costs.

     
  • Multifamily Firms Rebid Contracts to Cut Costs

    While the recession has chipped away at the balance sheets of many multifamily firms, it’s also presented opportunities to cut down on some costs.

     
  • Legal: Employee Drinking on the Job

    Employee drinking on the job

     
  • Legal: Beware Hidden Payment Terms

    life of the structure.

     
  • Letters

    Another look at energy claims; feeling the financial squeeze

     
  • In the News

    hub for cooking and entertainment

     
  • New Policy Landscape for Housing

    The affordable housing community will look back on the summer of 2008 as one of great accomplishment in working with members of both parties and the administration to enact the most farreaching housing law in decades, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

     
  • Business: Using Checklists to Eliminate the Punch List

    Using checklists to eliminate the punch list

     
  • Legal: Cleaning the Slate

    Cleaning the slate

     
  • Legal: Can a Handshake Be a Contract?

    Can a handshake be a contract?

     
  • Letters

    Interior-design law; stabilizing steel against buckling; respect for legal immigrants

     
  • Q&A: Clarifying Liability Coverage

    Q. After working for several years as an employee, I recently headed out on my own and began shopping around for liability insurance. Most policies offer "occurrence" coverage, but one company offers a "claims made" policy that provides similar coverage for less money. What's the difference between...

     
  • War Stories

    Affordable housing developers have the battle scars to show for each project that they have built and every one that was denied.

     
  • Ruling Protects Developers From Fair Housing Lawsuits

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed that the right to sue over design-and-construction violations of the Fair Housing Act expires two years after a project's completion.

     
  • Legal: When to Call a Lawyer

    When to call a lawyer

     
  • Image

    Selling the "Design" in Design-Build

    A small initial design contract can lead to a big job.