Multiple HLP attorneys recognized in the 29th edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™

The Court of Appeals also reaffirmed that a contractor or sub-contractor who wishes to establish that a debt is owed must properly file an affidavit of non-payment

HLPW Partners Brad Parrott and Tony Lehman defended an international engineering firm against claims of design defect and gross negligence relating to a Louisiana project for the world’s largest home improvement retailer.

For the fourth consecutive year, Hudson Lambert Parrott has been ranked by Construction Executive as one of its Top 50 Construction Law Firms™ nationally and among the very top in the Southeast.

HLP is pleased to announce the opening of offices in Charleston, South Carolina, and Orlando, Florida. Partner N. Ward Lambert will manage HLP’s new Charleston office, and Partner Carlton Miller will manage the new Orlando office.

Greg and Wes are full-time construction lawyers based in the firm’s Greenville, South Carolina office.

Join us remotely over lunch on December 8, 2021 at noon, for a discussion on best practices and easy steps that can be taken to minimize unemployment liability.

ABA Book on Construction Trials Edited by HLP Partner Tony Lehman. The book is a guide for all construction lawyers to turn to for advice, tips, hints, and guidance when their case goes to trial

For the third consecutive year, Hudson Lambert Parrott has been ranked by Construction Executive as one of its Top 50 Construction Law Firms™ nationally and among the very top in the Southeast.

HLPW merges two firms built on national success in trials and arbitrations for the construction industry

HLPW continues the standard of excellence of HarperLambert and HudsonParrottWalker, which ranked in the top 50 nationally and among the very top in the Southeast by Construction Executive, an industry-leading publication by Associated Builders and Constructors.

We are proud to announce that our partner, Tony Lehman, has been elected to serve on the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law.

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.