For this week’s Guest Post Friday post we welcome back Melissa Dewey Brumback. Melissa (@melissabrumback) is a construction attorney and partner in the firm Ragsdale Liggett, PLLC in Raleigh. Although not as old as some crusty lawyers, she has already spent over a decade representing engineers and architects, advising them on contract proposals to limit risks, and defending them when litigation does arise. She blogs at Construction Law in North Carolina.
As a reader of Chris’ blog, you are undoubtedly familiar with some of the pros and cons of alternative dispute resolution procedures. Arbitration, in one form or another, is an option in each of the three main industry form documents (that is, those of the AIA, the EJCDC, and the ConsensusDOCS). In fact, until recently, the default tribunal for construction disputes was arbitration, and, in the case of AIA contracts, arbitration through the American Arbitration Association (AAA).
