Cotney Attorneys & Consultants
Ten Cotney Construction Law Attorneys Named 2019 Florida Super Lawyers
Cotney Construction Law (CCL) announced that ten attorneys have been selected to the 2019 Florida Super Lawyers & Rising Stars Lists. Super Lawyers recognizes outstanding attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their legal practice. Each year, no more than 5 percent of lawyers in the state are chosen as Super Lawyers ...
Employers Need to Tread Carefully When Using Drones on Projects
By Kyle Gretel, Cotney Construction Law. Potential pitfalls of drone use on construction sites. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more colloquially known as drones, are the topic of conversation in multiple industries and are used in a variety of different applications. From delivery of a kidney to a transplant recipient to aerial photography, ...
Disrupting the Norm Leads to Success and Happy Customers
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Sometimes you have to shake up the traditional way of doing things to provide an even better level of legal services for roofing contractors. At the 2019 International Roofing Expo, Cotney Construction Law dropped a game changer on the roofing industry – a subscription model for ...
Understanding the Proposed New Overtime Salary Threshold
By Cotney Construction Law. For the first time since 2004, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would change the current salary threshold to receive overtime. Currently, employees with a salary below $455 per week ($23,660 annually) must be paid overtime if they work more than ...
Trent Cotney Named General Counsel to National Slate Association
Trent Cotney of Cotney Construction Law, LLP was recently named General Counsel of the National Slate Association (NSA). As General Counsel, Cotney will provide legal assistance to the association’s board of directors with regard to the organizational structure, bylaws, operations, and governance policies. The National Slate Association is a non-profit organization that ...
Understanding the Challenges of Selling Your Construction Business – Part 4
By Cotney Construction Law. Before you can successfully sell your business, you must be cognizant of the challenges present during the selling process. If you want to successfully sell your business, you must be aware of all of the various challenges that surround the selling process. This is part four of a ...
Cotney Construction Law Attorneys to Speak at Western Roofing Expo
Topics include opioid abuse, defending against OSHA and immigration issues. Trent Cotney and Danielle Maya will speak on these three important issues affecting roofing contractors: Seminar: The 5 Key Contract Provisions Needed to Defend Against OSHA Citations Speaker: Trent Cotney, Cotney Construction Law/WSRCA Legal Advisor Monday, June 10th, 2019 at 8:45 a.m. This course is ...
The Different Types of Bid Protests
By Cotney Construction Law. At some point, most construction companies will lose out on a bid. If your company’s bid did not win, and after a requested debrief, you find that the awarding entity was not fair in the decision making, then you can proceed by protesting the bid. There are three ...
“ICE” Age: Best Practice Tips for I-9 Compliance
By Cotney Construction Law. In the past couple of years, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) has been escalating worksite enforcement efforts, and this trend steadily continues. In 2017, former Acting Director of ICE Thomas Homan instructed its investigative unit, Homeland Security Inspections (“HSI”) to potentially quintuple worksite enforcement actions in ...
OSHA Flying into the 21st Century with Drones
By Cotney Construction Law. Early last year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced the start of an all new approach to its safety inspections—through drones. Since its introduction, at least nine inspections were conducted with camera-enabled drones. Of these nine inspections, the majority were used due to hazardous circumstances on-site ...
