Jury Awards Over $1.85 Million to Fall Line Construction in Legal Dispute, Adding to a string of 2023 trial victories by Hudson Lambert Parrott, LLC attorneys

HLP Ranked by Best Lawyers®, Nationally in 2 Practice Areas and Regionally in 3 Practice Areas

Boutique Construction and Litigation Firm Doubles Office Space, Bucking Industry Trends

Hudson Lambert Parrott, LLC is proud to announce that several of its esteemed attorneys have been recognized by Best Lawyers®, one of the most highly regarded peer review publications in the legal industry.

Hudson Lambert Parrott, LLC is pleased to announce that Partner N. Ward Lambert has been named as the Lawyer of the Year in Greenville, South Carolina, for both Construction Law and Construction Litigation by the prestigious Best Lawyers®.

Hudson Lambert Parrott, LLC (HLP) has been recognized as a leading law firm in construction law by Chambers in the 2023 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business

Hudson Lambert Parrott is pleased to announce that for the fifth consecutive year, HLP is recognized by Construction Executive as one of its Top 50 Construction Law Firms™.

HLP Partners Brad Parrott and Dawn Pettigrew led a two-week trial in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in January 2023.

HLPW is pleased to announce that Vicki B. Holzer has been named Partner effective November 28, 2022.

HLP has been ranked nationally (Tier 3 for Construction Law) and regionally (Tier 1 in Atlanta and Greenville in Construction Law and Tier 1 in Greenville for Construction Litigation) by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”

Partner Damon Gunnels was named the recipient of the Outstanding Counsel Award by the Office of the Chief, Army National Guard Trial Defense Service

The Atlanta Office of KIND has selected Marianna Faircloth from Home Depot and Cory Takeuchi from HLPW as their 2022 Pro Bono Team of the Year

South Carolina courts have held pay-when-paid clauses are enforceable, however, to provide a “reasonable” time—a previously undefined term—to make payment where a contractor has not received payment from the owner.

Email phishing scams and wire fraud have been on the rise in recent years and the construction industry is becoming an increasingly attractive target for fraudsters.

Attorneys Sanacory and Bell of HLPW published an article to help construction contractors understand bankruptcy basics from a construction perspective in the Construction Financial Management Association’s “Building Profits” magazine January/February issue.

Local laws in Fulton and DeKalb Counties concerning property record filing requirements were passed recently by the Georgia Legislature and are now impacting all manner of property record filings, including common construction documents such as liens and affidavits of Nonpayment.

Florida recently updated the Florida Prompt Payment Law, section 218.735, Fla. Stat., to provide for a much higher interest rate on amounts that are wrongfully withheld from downstream contractors and to put the offending party’s licensure at risk for violating the law.

This is another in a long line of examples of a Court holding that if a party wishes to enforce their contract, they must comply with the contract throughout the project, and can’t lean on the contract for the first time after a lawsuit is filed.

On January 1, 2021 the bipartisan Georgia lien law amendment goes into effect. This reflects the effective date of Senate Bill 315, which was signed into law by Governor Kemp in August 2020.

Governor Kemp signed Senate Bill 315 into law, which amends the Georgia statutory lien waiver form and clarifies that a lien waiver will only waive lien and bond rights – not substantive rights to payment under a construction contract

In the short term, the necessity of timely affidavits of non-payment cannot be understated.

In a ruling that should shake up the way contractors do business; the Supreme Court threw out a ‘no modification’ clause of a contract to expand contractual duties. Even where a contract has a strict change order process, a court may excuse the change order process if the parties routinely come to agreements outside the contract. To prevent payment disputes down the road, all parties should put agreements for extra work or extensions of time in writing.

Effective October 1, 2019, Florida law changed with respect to giving notices of nonpayment (NONP) on any project where there is a payment bond. The two statutes involved are Section 255.05 and Section 713.23.

The Georgia Court of Appeals recently considered the issue of whether an unlicensed “specialty contractor” was able to enforce its contract with an owner when it performed plumbing work itself, rather than hiring a licensed plumbing subcontractor.

In response to the recent decision that held a contractor forfeited all rights to payment by failing to file a claim of lien, the Associated General Contractors of Georgia interest group is lobbying for a clarification of the lien law to reverse this decision.

In Keystone Airpark Authority v. Pipeline Contractors, Inc., 266 So.3d 1219 (2019), the Florida Court of Appeals held that an engineer was not responsible for damages that flowed from its negligent inspection. This ruling creates potential exposure for contractors who rely on any third-party inspectors if the contract does not clearly define responsibility for errors.

HPW’s conduct of discovery leads subcontractor’s sole officer to enter into a consent judgment holding him personally liable.

Ruling on HPW’s summary judgment motion reduces city’s liability from $1.5 million to $12,000.

Until this legislative session, Florida had been one of the holdout states that had declined to mandate compliance with the federal E-Verify program for state and private projects.

HPW’s defense of a large non-profit organization in a disability discrimination action leads to a successful resolution of the lawsuit.