In this Legal Insights, Trent Cotney, partner at Adams and Reese, discusses the state of the roofing industry’s workforce shortage and how contractors should navigate hiring sub-labor to get the work done.

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RC catches up with Young Gun Joe Jolicoeur, executive vice president of roof services for New England-based Greenwood Industries, to learn more about his approach to success in roofing and being a total teammate.

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Hurricane season is officially here and if each of the past two years have been any indication, it’s just a matter of time before roofing contractors will be counted on to help the response to extreme weather events.

RC Legal Insights expert Trent Cotney breaks down what roofing contractors should be doing now to make this storm season a successful one in this brief episode.

In this episode, Anna Anderson, CEO of Art Unlimited, digs into the latest search result reports and how roofing contractors can endure what is looking to be a slow start to the busy season.

Ten years ago, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) started a national event to spread awareness and help prevent fatal falls on construction sites. It not only identified the leading cause of jobsite fatalities across America, but highlighted the importance of getting the safety conversation started in roofing yards and warehouses, said RC Legal Insights expert Trent Cotney.

In this latest Legal Insights episode, Cotney talks about the impact a decade of staying focused on safety has made for roofing, and how far the industry still needs to go. Listen to the entire conversation here.

In this episode, legal expert Trent Cotney of Adams and Reese dives into how roofing contractors should create company policies for using artificial intelligence like Chat GPT.

California regulators recently changed their approach to lead in older buildings by implementing rules with the lowest-permissible exposure limit introduced yet. That has enormous impact for roofers and other renovation and restoration contractors across the state, and possibly beyond, according to Trent Cotney, partner at Adams & Reese.

“Although this may be isolated to California now, my concern is that it’s picked up nationally,” Cotney warned in this brief episode. “The standard is so low that it’s pretty much a giant dragnet for anyone doing repairs on older structures.”

Hear the entire conversation here.