By means of this Enterprise Service partnership with Adams and Reese, Owens Corning helps make accessible a big selection of authorized providers to contractors.

Adams and Reese LLP, a brand new Enterprise Companies companion for the Owens Corning Roofing Contractor Community (OCCN), is offering free contract audits to roofing contractors. These audits consider present contracts to establish potential areas which will want enchancment as a way to assist mitigate unknown danger and adjust to native, state and federal legal guidelines. The contract audits are carried out by Lawyer Trent Cotney, Companion & Development Workforce Chief at Adams and Reese LLP, who’s acknowledged by his friends and all through the development business as one of many main attorneys within the nation on this subject of observe. Along with contract audits, Trent Cotney is obtainable to assist OCCN contractors mitigate danger, keep away from litigation and defend nearly each space of their enterprise.

Jon Gardner, Senior Chief of Strategic Partnerships, Studying & Growth at Owens Corning, stated offering contractors with entry to Cotney’s experience and intensive authorized sources is one other instance of Owens Corning’s dedication to assist contractors resolve issues and add capabilities in nearly all features of their enterprise. “Trent’s 25 plus years of expertise throughout the roofing business gives our contractors with entry to one of many business’s main attorneys. Trent serves as Common Counsel to NRCA, Western States, and quite a few different associations. He has his fingers on the heart beat of the business and is usually a large assist to our community members,” stated Gardner.

By means of this Enterprise Service partnership with Adams and Reese, Owens Corning helps make accessible a big selection of authorized providers to contractors. Core providers supplied by Trent Cotney embody contract evaluation and drafting, advisory providers for managing worker points, OSHA protection, collections, licensing and allow points, constructing code evaluation, merger and acquisition transactions, emblems, immigration and mental property.

“Working 25 years within the building area, I’ve seen that almost all of issues in a contactors’ enterprise originate due to weaknesses in contracts spanning totally different components of the enterprise,” stated Cotney. “An audit can uncover potential weaknesses earlier than they turn into issues that may expose a contractor’s enterprise to potential loss.”

Gardner famous that Cotney can be personally offering the providers by way of his work with Adams & Reese. “Trent’s expertise within the building sector, his day-to-day involvement serving associations and activity teams, and his experience in advising contractors on advanced points is a useful addition to the Enterprise Companies portfolio Owens Corning gives to contractors,” he stated. The unique settlement with Owens Corning permits OCCN members to go to the most well-liked authorized vendor web page and safe particular pricing, together with a ten% low cost off normal authorized charges in addition to the free Contract Audit.