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Click here to join the legal resource center online.
Where can roofing contractors get invaluable legal resources? NRLRC … that's where!
Legal issues are a fact of life in today's roofing industry, and you need to make the most of every resource available. Compliance with regulations, dealing with roof consultants, litigation, and product claims and disputes are all a part of a roofing contractor's daily business. The legal resource center is specifically tailored to roofing contractors' needs.
When you join NRLRC, you receive these member benefits:
- Free access to expert legal help. Receive answers from NRLRC's counsel to help address some of your toughest legal, business, and employment issues and problems. Submit your questions via NRLRC's Legal Help Line located online at www.nrlrc.net or by calling NRLRC at (847) 299-9092.
- Access to the Members Only section of NRLRC's Web site, www.nrlrc.net, which includes the NRLRC Legal Database. This comprehensive database contains more than 225 legal articles, cases, special reports, past seminar handouts and access to significant roofing-related court decisions to help you save time and attorney fees. You also can find state business licensing information and statutes of limitations, as well as informative health and safety, technical and business-related articles.
- Key contract provisions. Strong contracts focus on the key elements—such as the payment terms; the various obligations of the parties, representation and warranties; conditions to closing the deal; liability issues; remedies; and termination rights. Only NRLRC members receive one free contract provision each month.
- Monthly legal guides. Each edition of Sidebar addresses situations such as what to do if you want to do a job in another state; what to look for and what to look out for in an indemnification provision you are asked to sign; what to do if you don't receive a monthly progress payment; and what to do if you make a bid mistake. You will receive one free legal guide—valued at $50 each—per month.
- A subscription to NRLRC's monthly E-newsletter, The Legal Center, which keeps you and your business up-to-date with the most recent legal issues and trends affecting roofing contractors. Updated news also can be found online.
- Discounted registration fees to NRLRC's annual seminar, Roofing Issues: Decks to Dockets, which will be held Nov. 6-8, 2008 in Hilton Head, S.C. Give us three days … and you will walk away with at least 10 new ideas you can implement immediately. Guaranteed.
- A complimentary ticket to NRLRC's annual breakfast program (a $100 value), which will be held Monday, Feb.2, in Las Vegas during the 2009 International Roofing Expo. The program gives you a taste of the most prevalent legal and technical issues affecting roofing contractors and their businesses.
- A copy of OSHA Citiation Defense Manual, a comprehensive resource valued at $595 that helps you become more familiar with OSHA procedures, practices and terms; better prepared to handle OSHA inspections and respond to citations; better equipped to defend yourself against alleged violations and improper citations.
- A complimentary copy of the Roofing Contractors Guide to Legal Claims, Lawsuits and Arbitration Proceedings, valued at $100. The legal guide is intended to familiarize you with the legal handling of construction disputes and how those disputes are resolved through lawsuits or arbitration proceedings.
- A complimentary copy of NRLRC's Roofing Contractors Manual for Responding to Alleged Superfund Liability (a $95 value), designed to help you recognize the bases for allegations of Superfund liability; gather and evaluate the facts; develop challenges to the costs and expenses incurred by the opposing party; and develop options to define and minimize liability.
Join NRLRC today and begin realizing the return on your investment immediately.
To join online, click here, or contact call Alison LaValley or Anne Schroeder at (847) 299-9092; fax (847)299-1183; or e-mail nrlrc@nrlrc.net for an application.
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