A Legal Quest for an End to Mechanics' Liens 3/14/2006
Recently I saw a blurb for a text that promises to pilot readers through the muddy shoals of mechanics’ lien laws. This exercise in puffery brought me back to my hostility to mechanics’ liens, those useless appendages to an already overcomplicated construction law.
I vented my aggression on these worthless, even dangerous, legislatively created creatures in a column I wrote for the Construction Lawyer, an American Bar Association journal. I thought that my attack on this sacred cow would bring a torrent of abuse. I expected bruising phone calls and e-mails or shrill calls for my removal from the journal. I could not have been more wrong. No volley of condemnation. Nothing, or almost nothing.