While you wait, please check out the Guest Post Friday page and, if you are interested in joining the parade, check out the guidelines and then let me know what you’d like to contribute.

Thanks to everyone past, present and future who’s contributions to this series have made this construction law blog so much more interesting.

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As you read this, I am happily taking a break from my construction law practice and hanging at the beach enjoying some spring break fishing and family time on Sanibel Island, Florida. Musings will pick back up again next week.

In the meantime, check out the recently added Alternate Dispute Resolution page to hear my thoughts on construction mediation and arbitration.  Also, be sure to read the Guest Post Friday page to catch up on some of the great contributions from my friends in the construction, Web 2.0 and legal worlds.

Thank you for your continued readership and I’ll see you next week.

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All of that said, I have also had a growth in the number of unsolicited offers for guest posts and a majority of these have been from folks with whom I have never had contact.  While these offers are generous and most likely well meaning, the increase in their numbers has led me to feel the need for a set of guidelines (albeit a loose set).  I want to keep the diversity of posts and subjects while making sure that the posts are relevant and at least tangentially related to the practice of construction law.  I also hope that these will help to answer questions that I get from new guest posters and save them some time.

So, without further ado, here are my guidelines:

• If you are not specifically asked to post or offered the opportunity by me, please contact me to introduce yourself first.  E-mails with “Guest Post” or the like as a subject and the body of which talks about how great your article will be are uniformly placed in the trash.
• The purpose of these guest posts is two fold.  First to add something interesting for the readers and second to give some exposure and a platform to the person posting.  Because of this, all guest posts will need a short bio (preferably with links that relate to you) and a head shot or logo.  This is for your benefit and hopefully you, as a guest poster, will get some benefit from your generous donation of time and effort.
• While some topics are inherently political (see the recent posts on potential changes to Virginia mechanic’s lien law), I try and keep this blog as apolitical as possible.  Your opinions and personal take on the legal and practice landscape of construction law (and even the occasional lawyer joke) are welcome and encouraged, just try and keep the commentary as apolitical as possible.  For instance, your thoughts on recent green building trends are encouraged but political commentary on the particular individuals that implement these changes are not as encouraged.

I don’t want these guidelines to limit the great posts that I have gotten here over the last 3 plus years, and none of the posts to date fall outside of them in any way.  In fact, aside from the occasional typo, I’ve had to exercise little or no editorial control and plan on continuing this trend.

What are your thoughts on the guidelines?  Are they too strict (I sure hope not)?  Anything here you see that could cause some posters to lose interest?  Please contact me with any issues or suggestions that you have with or for this set of guest post guidelines.

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If you don’t vote for me, you can check out the blogs and links listed there (including friends of Musings @matthandal and @melissabrumback among others).  Each of those listed provides a great insight into different aspects of construction, from law to marketing.  Even if you don’t vote (and I hope that you will), read some of these blogs, you will certainly learn something.

Thanks again to Mark and to all of my readers and contributors that make this blog fun to publish.

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PS- Guest Posts will start up again next Friday with what will be a great one!

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I wish all of my friends, family, readers of, and contributors to Musings a safe, healthy and productive 2012.

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I would like to say a big thank you to Rich Cartlidge and his Green Building Envirotrends Blog for allowing me to guest post. Connections with great folks like Rich are what keep me going here at Musings. Please check him out on Twitter and explore his blog.

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I hope that you all have a safe, warm and family-filled holiday.  Thank you for your continued support and readership through out 2011 and I look forward to spending a great 2012 with all of you, the readers of Musings.

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In the meantime, I encourage you to peruse the various pages of Musings and catch up on all of the great Guest Post Friday posts from the past.

Happy holidays to you all.

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Among those also named to the Legal Elite in Construction are good friends and fellow construction attorneys John Owen, Tim Hughes (@timrhughes), Brett Marston and Greg St. Ours (these last two are fellow members of the VSB Construction and Public Contracts Section Board).  Congratulations to all of you who have been named top construction attorneys in Virginia and to those named in the other categories as tops in their fields of practice.  The list includes some great attorneys so I encourage you to look it over.

So, without further ado, thank you from me, Construction Law Musings, and The Law Office of Christopher G. Hill, PC to all of you who tossed my name into the ring and congratulations to all of my friends and colleagues who are named to the Virginia Business Legal Elite for 2011.

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