Originally posted 2010-08-06 09:00:19. For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Musings, we welcome Melissa Dewey Brumback. Melissa is a litigation partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC in Raleigh, North Carolina where she focuses on construction law issues. She maintains a blog for construction professionals called Construction Law in North Carolina. She can be reached at [email protected] […]
Breaking the Impasse by Understanding Blame
Originally posted 2012-06-08 09:00:48. For this week’s Guest Post Friday (on a Thursday) here at Construction Law Musings, Victoria Pynchon (@vickiepynchon) joins us for the 4th time. Victoria is an attorney-mediator with ADR Services, Inc. in Century City; an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association in Los Angeles, California; and, a negotiation consultant and trainer […]
Mandatory Arbitration Isn’t All Bad, if. . .
Originally posted 2011-07-29 09:00:40. In the past week or so mandatory arbitration has been all the rage. From those that argue that arbitration is becoming more burdensome than litigation, to my friend and fellow construction attorney Scott Wolfe who gives great advice on how to make arbitration worth it again. You can place me in […]
Resolve to Mediate Your Construction Disputes in 2014
Originally posted 2014-01-13 09:00:34. After last week’s quick detour to discuss Kevin Underhill’s great book, we’re back to discuss more “serious” topics. Namely, how to move forward relating to your construction disputes in 2014. As anyone that regularly reads Construction Law Musings knows, I am a Virginia Supreme Court certified mediator and an advocate of […]
Incorporation, Indemnity and Statutes of Limitations, Oh My!
Originally posted 2017-02-07 09:00:55. We all know that the contract is king in Virginia. We also know that Virginia will allow for a so called “incorporation” clause that will allow for “flow down” of certain prime contract provisions in a way that will make those provisions applicable to subcontractors. We also know that a claim […]