September 17, 2007

EDITOR'S NOTES

Gone are the days of merely hanging a “for let” sign from an office window to announce a vacancy. Now, building owners use elaborate and creative methods to entice would-be tenants. One such owner used design plans from an architectural firm to woo potential occupants for the office/residential space in Greenwich, Conn. When the owner withheld payment for some of the services rendered, the architect relied on the state’s mechanic’s lien statute to recover the costs; a move that an appellate court said was permissible and within the protection of the statute.

Also this week, we cover the recovery actions of a surety that sued the government in behalf of a subcontractor, a state court that set start and finish dates ex post facto for an owner who failed to specify them in his contract, and a contractor that failed to follow protocol for filing a claim.

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