Just this past weekend, I attended the 36th Annual Construction and Public Contracts seminar jointly held by the Construction and Public Contracts section of the Virginia State Bar and Virginia CLE in Charlottesville, VA. As always, I caught up with some old friends, met some new ones and, of course, learned something.
ConsensusDOCS Updates its Forms
As reported recently in ENR Magazine, among other publications, the ConsensusDOCS folks have updated their contract forms. Why is this news? First of all, it’s only been around three and a half years since these documents were officially released and this release is about 18 months sooner than anticipated (the original revision cycle was to […]
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 […]
Belt & Suspenders: The Preferred Style for Your Construction Contract
Guest Post Friday is back with a vengeance as we welcome back Melissa Dewey Brumback. Melissa is a partner at Ragsdale Liggett in Raleigh, North Carolina. The bulk of her practice is representing architects and engineers, helping them to avoid litigation and representing them whenever litigation is filed. She writes a blog on risk avoidance […]
Don’t Waive Your Jury Trial Waiver Clause
For this week’s Guest Post Friday, Construction Law Musings goes local. Tom Lane is a litigation attorney at ThompsonMcMullan in Richmond, Virginia, and practices in various areas, including construction law. Tom graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2001, and he has been associated with ThompsonMcMullan since 2006. In an article published […]