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April 2011

{Potentially} Coming Soon to North Carolina: E-Verify

Filed on February 3, 2011, North Carolina House Bill 36 proposes an act prohibiting state and local government contracts with contractors who employ illegal immigrants. Moreover, House Bill 36 would require that prior to submitting a bid or entering into a contract with any State department, institution or governing body of any political subdivision of the State, a contractor would have to verify the legal status of each individual employee …Read More

Revising The Lien Law: A Work In Progress

House Bill 489 is pending before the North Carolina House of Representatives.  As the economy slowed, the construction industry ground nearly to a halt, and the courts made several decisions, voices from across the industry demanded changes to modernize the lien law to assure that it remains for mechanics and laborers the source of an “adequate lien on the subject-matter of their labor.”  To that end, the Construction Law Section …Read More