The DK&S Construction Section is bringing its popular "AIA Documents" seminar to you!  If you are interested in a complimentary breakfast or lunch seminar at your office to discuss the recent changes in AIA documents and how you can make the AIA documents work best for your company, please contact Kelly E. Theard.

Filing of the Notice of Contract:

Protecting Your Rights from the Beginning

By: Charles F. Seemann, Jr.

It has come to our attention in several different contexts that many contractors do not file a Notice of Contract in a private project as provided for in La. Rev. Stat. (LRS) 9:4811, et. seq. Some, often at the insistence of a project architect, file the entire contract; while others file nothing at all.  Failure to file a Notice of Contract, or filing an inadequate one, can be disastrous. read more

It's Cheaper to Pay On Time for a Public Owner 

By: Scott J. Hedlund

The Second Circuit recently ruled that a contractor is entitled to attorney's fees under The Public Works Act (La. R.S. 38:2191) when the public owner fails to make timely final payments after formal and final acceptance of a Project. read more

For further information or questions regarding a construction-related legal issue, please contact a member of our Construction Department:
Keith J. Bergeron (kbergeron@dkslaw.com), Frederick R. Bott (fbott@dkslaw.com), Terrence L. Brennan (tbrennan@dkslaw.com), Jimmy A. Castex (jacastex@dkslaw.com), Scott J. Hedlund (shedlund@dkslaw.com), Charles F. Seemann, Jr., (cseemann@dkslaw.com ) and Kelly E. Theard (ktheard@dkslaw.com).