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From the program: Building Better Construction Contracts 2012

Released on: Oct. 2, 2012

Traditional construction contracts do not work as well as they should to align the parties' interests and clearly define rights and responsibilities. As a consequence, the design and construction process is more dispute prone than it needs to be. This course is designed to give you the tools you need to better negotiate and draft design and construction agreements. You will learn which risk allocation clauses, including the so-called "killer ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

PATRICK J. O'CONNER, JR.: Let me start the introductions for our next topic. Our next two speakers are going to cover the same subject area. Private Public Partnerships, or Public Private Partnerships. Three P's, sometimes they're referred to, from different perspectives. So very-- a very important topic. It's an important topic because, certainly now-- with the limited resources that most municipalities and government entities have with respect ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

MEGAN: Now, it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you the chair of today's program, Patrick J O'Connor, Jr. Pat is a partner with the international law firm of Faegre & Benson LLP. Mr. O'Connor's practice focuses on construction, suretyship and insurance. He also acts as a mediator, arbitrator, and expert witness in construction disputes. Mr. O'Connor is author of Bruner & O'Connor on Construction Law, a seven volume construction ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

PATRICK J. O'CONNOR, JR: Our next program, we're going to be talking about owners project controls. And we're also going to be talking about scheduling one of the-- I think one of the areas that the standard contract forms handle with a fair amount of brevity is scheduling. And of course, scheduling is important on almost any construction project. And so I asked my partner, Peter Halls, who's sitting down farthest to the right from me. Peter and I ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

PATRICK J. O'CONNOR JR.: Welcome back everybody from your networking interlude. This particular presentation will take us to lunch. This is an interesting presentation. What we're going to do is cover a number of fairly interesting risk allocation issues with an emphasis on you looking at 2008 and how things have changed since 2008 and what that means for the design and construction industry. And we've got three panelists. I'm going to be your moderator ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

SPEAKER: All right everybody, we're going to go ahead and get started. Thanks for staying with us through the entire program. This is the last segment of the day. It is the one hour on ethics that I'm sure everybody is waiting for. I'm going to go ahead and introduce our speakers. The next panel is Ethical Concerns for Council When Advising a Government Contractor. We have Larry Harris with Fox Rothschild and Timothy Thornton with Greensfelder, Hemker, ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

PATRICK J. O'CONNOR: Good afternoon. And we're back for the afternoon session. I know that people will straggle in as is inevitably the case after we do our lunch break. But because there's so many people on the web in this program, I want to make sure that we do start on time. This program, this particular presentation, the next hour will be devoted to two topics-- insurance and surety bonds. I'm going to handle insurance, and Deb Griffin on my ...

From the program: Commercial Real Estate Institute 2012 (14th Annual)

Recorded on: Nov. 12, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Commercial Real Estate Institute 2012 (14th Annual) recorded November, 2012 in San Francisco. Lecture Topics  [01:31:40] Construction Contracts/Escrows/Lender Issues  [01:31:40] Current forms of general contractor/ subcontractor/architect agreements What clauses require changes? Identifying and disarming the killer clauses Allocating and mitigating risk for the parties in the construction ...