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The Perilous Parachute

Walking Off the "Project from Hell"
June 2008
Paul Lewis, Esq.

Here's the dilemma: you've been working on an especially cantankerous construction project (or any services contract for that matter). You've been misled on the site conditions. You've had design changes galore, your critical path has been re routed twenty times. You haven't been paid your estimates, or have been seriously shortchanged. And you're facing a protracted contract term with serious liquidated damages, an overhead that won't quit, and the looming possibility you may be terminated. Should you file a claim or a demand letter and keep working? Or do you walk off?

Hiring Unauthorized Aliens

June 2008
Anne Sias, Esq.

Undocumented aliens are plentiful and may be willing to work below the prevailing wage rate, but the mere hiring of these workers could subject an employer to serious legal consequences.