5 Steps to Consider Now to Comply with Massachusetts’ Prompt Pay Act
By Tom Dunn, Pierce Atwood LLP About the Author: Tom Dunn is a construction lawyer with over 20 years’ experience helping contractors prove-up, confront, mitigate, and resolve construction project payment, change order, and related claims and disputes in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He leads the Construction Practice Group at Pierce Atwood LLP, a law firm with offices in Boston, Providence, Portsmouth, and Portland. As a long-standing member of the AGC of Massachusetts, he serves as Chair of the AGC
When Your Project is Put on Trial: What to Expect for the Contractor
By: R. Thomas Dunn, Esq. and Matthew R. O’Connor, Esq. As contractors, you may never imagine you could end up someday testifying under oath about the tenth email you sent on a random Tuesday years ago talking about an RFI, soil compaction, or who said what in a meeting with the project owner. Yet, that’s the reality of what happens when a dispute exits the worksite and enters a courtroom. Recently, the authors tried a multi-day arbitration involving millions in claims. There were twenty witnesses ranging

