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Presenting At Green Legal Matters This Week in New Orleans

Construction Law Monitor

McGraw-Hill Trends Driving Change Report’s Green Outlook 2009 predicts the industry tripling between now and 2013, to a $140b market. The unavoidable marriage between the green and construction industries is why our construction law practice has paid very close attention to green legal issues. Especially in this market.

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Google Scholar Provides Outstanding Preliminary Legal Research

Best Practices Construction Law

joined the legal research playing field with Westlaw, LEXIS, FindLaw and all the other law-related databases. In November 2009, Google launched a new feature on Google Scholar that made 80+ years of US federal caselaw and 50+ years of US state caselaw searchable and readable. Is that the only legal research an inquiring mind should do?

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

The Office, The Field, and Technology. There’s no better example of the business silo in construction than the separation that many companies experience between field operations and office management. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

And there are plenty of advantages to “mobilizing” your construction company: improved communication between field and office. real-time data updates at the office , leading to better reporting and better data on which to make decisions. the ability to send progress photos from the job site to the office. December 2009.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Keeping documents as electronic files reduces paper waste and clutter in your office because you can get rid of the filing cabinets. If the answer was no to any one of these, you have an opportunity to make your accounting office operations much easier. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Distances between job sites and the office continue to increase as companies go further and further from their home base to do work. A friend of mine had a foreman who hated doing his paperwork, which consisted primarily of approving and submitting timecards to the office. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Some of us remember the “dark ages” of going back and forth between job sites and the office. With the adoption of cell phones, we no longer had to physically go back and forth between the office and the field – we could make a phone call to connect the two. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. August 2009.