As I announced via my Posterous page (where I posted the registration form), the folks at the Green Legal Matters Symposium asked me to speak. My good buddy Scott Wolfe (@scottwolfejr) of the Wolfe Law Group and the Construction Law Monitor will be my co-presenter. The luminaries speaking at the symposium include my fellow attorneys and friends Shari Shapiro (@sharishapiro) [...]
Thoughts on the construction landscape from Christopher G. Hill, lawyer, LEED AP and member of the Virginia Legal Elite in Construction Law
Category Archives: Construction Law
Be Careful with Venue in Contracts
Originally posted 2009-08-10 13:45:00. If Musings has one overarching theme it is be careful with your construction contracts. The Courts remind us of that on a regular, if not daily, basis.
One such case, in May of this year and out of the Eastern District of Virginia is Hall & Wilson Construction, Inc. v. Sockwell. [...]
Affirmed: The Contract is King in Virginia
We have discussed the overwhelming need for precision in construction contract drafting on several occasions here at Musings. This need is illustrated with great clarity by the litigation surrounding the Granby Towers in Norfolk, Virginia. The circumstances surrounding the Granby Towers debacle have been well documented. For that reason, I will not re-iterate [...]
The Interstate Land Sales Act: A Buyer’s Escape Hatch – A Developer’s Worst Nightmare
Originally posted 2009-03-06 10:00:00. For this week’s Guest Post Friday, Rich Cartlidge, a 3rd year law student at Stetson University College of Law in St. Petersburg, FL and author of the Green Building Envirotrends Blog has kindly offered to post on the Interstate Land Sales Act. Rich is a great resource and focuses on the [...]
Old and New Business Strategies to Weather the Construction Recession
The construction world has been hit with story after story of the hard times that have hit those in commercial and residential construction markets. Doom and gloom is everywhere. Capacity built up in the good years led to larger construction companies that now have to deal with bidding wars (and the potential liability from those [...]
