{"id":4748,"date":"2017-08-23T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2022-06-23T20:41:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T00:41:55","slug":"practitioners-guide-navigating-new-mechanics-lien-law-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/practitioners-guide-navigating-new-mechanics-lien-law-amendments\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: Henry Donner and David Dean on Practitioners&#8217; Guide to Navigating New Mechanics&#8217; Lien Law Amendments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/qtq80-HnVsL4-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"qtq80-HnVsL4-150x150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In the August 21, 2017 edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelegalintelligencer.com\/\">The Legal Intelligencer<\/a>, Henry Donner, Of Counsel at Kang Haggerty, and David Dean, an associate of the firm, write on the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelegalintelligencer.com\/id=1202796019790\"> Practitioners&#8217; Guide to Navigating New Mechanics&#8217; Lien Law Amendments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By: Henry Donner and David Dean<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania&#8217;s Mechanics Lien Law of 1963 was amended in late 2014 to require the commonwealth&#8217;s Department of General Services to create an internet-based State Construction Notices Directory. As required by the law, the directory went live on Dec. 31, 2016, providing a standardized, statewide, internet-based system for construction notices. This statutory scheme imposes new requirements on project owners, contractors, and subcontractors, compliance with which can drastically affect those parties&#8217; rights under the Mechanics Lien Law. Practitioners representing any of the traditional parties in a construction matter should be sure to familiarize themselves with these new provisions, and advise their clients accordingly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/practitioners-guide-navigating-new-mechanics-lien-law-amendments\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Legal Intelligencer: Henry Donner and David Dean on Practitioners&#8217; Guide to Navigating New Mechanics&#8217; Lien Law Amendments\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the August 21, 2017 edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Henry Donner, Of Counsel at Kang Haggerty, and David Dean, an associate of the firm, write on the Practitioners&#8217; Guide to Navigating New Mechanics&#8217; Lien Law Amendments. By: Henry Donner and David Dean Pennsylvania&#8217;s Mechanics Lien Law of 1963 was amended in late 2014 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[480,479,496,486,414],"tags":[336,552],"coauthors":[512],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-litigation-and-dispute-resolution","category-commercial-transactions","category-construction-documents","category-construction-litigation","category-publications","tag-legal-intelligencer","tag-mechanics-liens-law","publication_lawyer-henry-j-donner","publication_lawyer-kang-haggerty-fetbroyt-llc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legal Intelligencer: Henry Donner and David Dean on Practitioners&#039; 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