MAY JLC 1997 Many of you have learned your business lessons the hard way. If your contract let you down, you swore it would never again happen. So you hired an attorney well versed in contract law to polish up your standard contract — and it's a humdinger, with no stone left unturned. But do you think that alone will cover your backside? I know it won't. A good contract is important, but you also need to establish effective job controls. Job controls come in all flavors, from those between you and the client to the kind that monitor movement of materials from supplier to warehouse to job site and vice versa. When properly and consistently administered, job
