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You Should Not Contract With Your Environmental Consultant

Green Building Law Update

In an effort to mitigate risk you should not contract directly with an environmental consultant, but rather your attorney should contract with that consultant. What is described here is much more than simply good drafting of consultant contacts (e.g., And it may be much more than that.

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FEDRAMP is Hindering Facilities Management in the Federal Sector

Job Order Contracting

As you can imagine, the Government contracts with a lot more than that for SaaS solutions ( [link] ). Here is a draft memo from OMB regarding FEDRAMP revisions, that: [link]. Since that time, it has failed to keep pace with evolving technologies and methods. #2 Please review the following which clearly support this fact.

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#130:  Secured Lenders' Rights to Construction Contract Payments

NH Construction Law

It happens this way: A contractor or subcontractor borrows money from a lender, and as security for the loan it gives the lender an assignment of or lien on its receivables and contract rights. Otherwise all construction contracts would have such a clause, thwarting the lender’s statutory rights.

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The Real Lemon in the Bunch: Understanding Pay-If-Paid Clauses in Construction Contracts

Best Practices Construction Law

In a payment dispute between the subcontractor and contractor, the contractor argued that the “pay if paid” clause provided an absolute defense to payment. The subcontractor argued that the prime contract between the owner and the contractor defined the cost of work to include “payments made” to subcontractors. However, in Thomas J.

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Last, but NOT Least: Why You Should Take a Closer Look at Your Next Indemnification Clause

Construction and Infrastructure Law

This often includes entities and persons related to the contracting parties, not just the parties themselves. A well drafted indemnity clause will ensure that all parties are liable for the result of their own work and negligence and that of any party that they have hired to work on a project. What exactly will be covered?

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Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

Green Building Law Update

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

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Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

Green Building Law Update

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions.