Location: Via telephone

Additional Info: Oregon State Bar

Cost: $65

Description:
Construction contracts can be potential minefields of dispute and liability between property owners and builders. Involving performance standards tied to payments, risk shifting, and third-party contractors and insurers, they are among the most complex business agreements and often involve significant value and time-sensitive projects.

This program provides you with a real-world guide to negotiating and drafting the most important provisions of construction contracts and how to anticipate disputes, mitigate risk, and incorporate cost-effective dispute resolution mechanisms.

• Negotiating and drafting the most important provisions of construction contracts
• Role of major form agreements, including AIA contracts, in negotiations
• Performance standards and payments
• Anticipating disputes between property owners and builders and risk mitigation techniques
• Insurance and indemnification issues
• Cost-effective dispute resolution

Speaker:

John Miller is a partner in the Charlotte, North Carolina, office of Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson PA, where his practice encompasses corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, and construction law.