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Legal Solutions for Contractors in Troubled Times Proactive & Reactive Tips – a 2 Part Series

The current financial crisis in America is hitting national organizations, banking intuitions and Wall Street – but it is not a recent phenomenon for those who earn a living in the construction industry.
 
While the 90s and early 2000s saw unprecedented growth in the construction sector, 2007 and 2008 has presented difficulties to the oversized industry as residential building plummeted and commercial construction exposed its vulnerabilities.

Most predictions on the economy and the construction industry are not as gloom and doom as the current press may indicate, but with the instant credit and cash crunch, its unanimous that these are challenging times for all businesses, large and small.

It’s prudent for those in the construction industry to make allowances for their company’s legal needs in these trouble times. This article series presents the contractor with some tips on how to be legally proactive and reactive in 2008 and 2009 without breaking the bank.

Over the next two weeks, Wolfe Law Group will publish the following two articles in this two part series:

Part One: An Apple A Day… Three Simple Proactive Steps Your Company Can Take To Weather the Economical Storm.

Part Two: Now What? Three Simple Principals To Mind When Your Involved with a costly dispute.

 
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Is Seattle Recession-Proof? Good News for WA Contractors

Wolfe Law Group, construction attorneys in Washington and Louisiana, posted an interesting article about the construction market in Seattle, WA and the strength of Seattle’s economy as a whole on its construction law blog. The text is reproduced below:

In the midst of the “doom and gloom” economy predictions in the U.S., there seems to be some hope for the Seattle construction market.

Recent reports have been optimistic about the nonresidential sector of Seattle’s construction industry and about the Seattle economy in general.

Forbes Magazine has gone as far as to call Seattle one of America’s Ten “Recession-Proof Cities,” and specifically cited the growth of the city’s manufacturing industry, calling it the strongest statistical showing in the nation.

The Seattle Times jumped into the conversation this week as well, in an article about the “Tale of Two Construction Sectors.” The article discusses the a struggling home building market in the Puget Sound area, but a very robust nonresidential market. Read the article by clicking here.

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