Articles
March 15, 2013	Effectively Presenting a Delay Damages Case to a Jury
Fall 2010	The Limited Privileges and Protections for Accountant Communications and Documents
Fall 2010	Five Areas Every Office Lease Tenant Should Focus On During Lease Negotiations
Fall 2010	Federal Court Requires A Certified Claim To Defend Against Liquidated Damages	Fitzsimmons
Fall 2010	Federal Court Of Appeals Affirms Decision Discharging Surety From Obligations Under Standard Form Performance Bond	Muncey
Fall 2010	New Rule Adds First-Tier Subcontract And Executive Compensation Reporting Requirements For Federal Contracts	Lunsford
Fall 2010	Teaching In Hungary – Keeping A Promise	Tieder
September 2010	Finding ARRA Opportunities More Than One Year Later	Fitzsimmons
May 2010	Exxon v. Baker: Legislating Spills into the Judiciary: How the Supreme Court Sunk Maritime Punitive Damages
Spring 2010	California Sets The Green-Building Pace With The Nation’s First Statewide Green-Building Standard Code - The CALGreen Code	McPherson, Nemeth
Spring 2010	Show Me the Money…Promptly! – A Brief Comparison of State Prompt Payment Acts
Spring 2010	The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Reporting Requirements: The Money Comes With Strings Attached
Spring 2010	Running Out of Money – Signs That a Construction Enterprise is Slipping Away	Worley
Spring 2010	Caught In The Flash Flood Of Insolvency: An Assessment Of Contractor Responsibility To Maintain Stormwater Runoff Protection Even After Owner Default	Sechrist
Spring 2010	Kosova – A Place In History	Tieder
Winter 2009-2010	More Fodder For The Miller Act Surety’s Impairment And Overpayment Claims	Harris
Winter 2009-2010	Pay-if-Paid Clauses: Sometimes A Defense, Sometimes Not
Winter 2009-2010	Building With History: How Contractors Can Address The Challenges Of Rehabilitating Historic Properties
Winter 2009-2010	Building Information Modeling: A Technology With Big Promise, But Also Unanswered Questions	Coleman
Winter 2009-2010	Wild West Shootout: Battle Over The Application Of The Economic Loss Doctrine To Construction Disputes In The Mountain West States
Winter 2009-2010	Bonding The Public-Private Partnership Project: Considerations For The Surety	Dorfman
Winter 2009-2010	The Federal Arbitration Act – Can It Apply To Parties Who Did Not Sign The Arbitration Agreement?
Fall 2009	Seize Control of The Disputes Process: Customizing Your Agreement To Arbitrate
Fall 2009	United Surety & Indemnity Co. v. United States: The Surety’s Duty to Give Notice of Contractor Default
Fall 2009	Subdivision Bonds Claims: Yet Another Consequence Of The Housing Market Collapse	Glos
Fall 2009	“Build It And They Will Come” – So Long As There Is Access
Fall 2009	No Punitive Damages for Contractor’s Deliberate Misrepresentations of Repair
Fall 2009	WTHF and Heiermann Franke Knipp	Tieder
Summer 2009	Colorado Structures Turns Two: Are Sureties Out of the Woods?	Blischke
Summer 2009	Some Cases To Note
Summer 2009	Nevada Supreme Court Declares Pay-If-Paid Clauses Unenforceable—Or Did It?
Summer 2009	Why The New Economy And Regulations Mean Contractors Must Be Ready And Able To Deliver Under LEED. Is “Green” The New 5-Star Standard?	McPherson, Nemeth
Summer 2009	Get a Big One and Nine Other Considerations For Tenants Planning to Sublease
Spring 2009	New Virginia Cases
Spring 2009	The Fifth Day v. Bolotin: Creating A Loophole In The California Contractors' State License Law	Dillon
Spring 2009	Termination For Convenience Clauses: Not All Are Alike, So The Terms Do Matter
Spring 2009	Employer Indemnification Obligation Expanding In California
Spring 2009	In The Age of BIM, What Terms Are Included In Your Software License Agreements?
Spring 2009	Introduction To International Construction Contracting – Part II	Tieder
Spring 2009	Traveling With Jack In Latvia – Romance And Reality	Tieder
Spring 2009	OSHA’s Common Work Area Policy: Avoiding A Fall, But Still On Uncertain Footing	Vinciguerra
Winter 2008-2009	A First Look at Green Building Litigation: Southern Builders v. Shaw Development
Winter 2008-2009	Virginia Construction Law Update
Winter 2008-2009	Small Community Halts Big Construction Amid Historical and Environmental Concerns	Dugdale
Winter 2008-2009	“Employing” Independent Contractors Leads To Significant Liability
Winter 2008-2009	Introduction to German Construction Law
Winter 2008-2009	Travels with Jack - This Time: Bulgaria - One Year Later
Winter 2008-2009	Public-Private-Partnership (P3): The Practical Basics	Dukellis
Winter 2008-2009	Introduction to International Construction Contracting – Part I	Tieder
November 2008	Through the Looking Glass: Contract Terms from a Surety Perspective	Fitzsimmons
Fall 2008	A Sea Change for Government Contractors: New FAR Provisions Require Mandatory Disclosure	Ewald
Fall 2008	California Supreme Court Invalidates Contractual Non-Competition Clauses
Fall 2008	Court of Federal Claims Addresses Notice Requirements for Surety Subrogation Claims
Fall 2008	To Defend or Not to Defend? A Surety’s Decision to Intervene on Behalf of its Principal to Avoid the Potential Consequences of a Default Judgment	Sears
Fall 2008	My Travels and Teaching in Slovenia - Part II	Tieder
Fall 2008	The Common Work Area Doctrine: Reasonable Limits on General Contractor Liability for Jobsite Accidents	Vinciguerra
Fall 2008	In Memoriam - Julian F. Hoffar
Summer 2008	The A, B, C's of Virginia's Contractor Licensing Regulations	Blake
Summer 2008	Virginia Green Building Legislation Update
Summer 2008	Paying for a Chevy and Getting a Cadillac – Damages for Defective Construction May Far Exceed The Contract Amount	Fitzsimmons
Summer 2008	A False Sense Of Security: Limitation Of Liability Provisions For Design Professionals in Virginia
Summer 2008	My Travels and Teaching in Slovenia - Part 1	Tieder
Spring 2008	The Datastaff Case: A Lesson in Responding to Payment Inquiries Without Running Afoul of the Equitable Estoppel Doctrine
Spring 2008	What's Your Green Construction Strategy?
Spring 2008	Safeguarding the Will of the Parties as to Who Decides Arbitrability
Spring 2008	Important Employment Cases Impact California Contractors
Spring 2008	U.S. Supreme Court Deals Blow to Heightened Judicial Scrutiny of Arbitration Awards	McCormick
Winter 2007 - 2008	It's Miller Time for Middlemen and Their Suppliers
Winter 2007-2008	A Public Owner's Disclosure Obligations During The Bidding Process: When Does Silence Create Liability?
Winter 2007-2008	Defending Prompt Payment Actions With Statutory Settlement Offers Under California Law	Merrell
Winter 2007-2008	Learning and Teaching in Bulgaria –Part II	Tieder
Winter 2007-2008	False “Records Or Statements” Alone Do Not Impute Liability For Civil Penalties Under The California False Claims Act	Van Ornum
Summer 2007	Does Your Arbitration Agreement Have Holes Making Rulings Less Than Final?
Summer 2007	Is It Time To Go Green?
Summer 2007	California Supreme Court Decision Expands Potential Wage/Hour Liability
Summer 2007	Changes In Nevada Law – A Recap Of The 2007 Legislative Session
Summer 2007	New Fall Protection For Contractors: How The OSHA Review Commission Has Changed Your Exposure To Project Safety Liability	Vinciguerra
Spring 2007	Advance Payments From Prime Contractors to Their Subs - A Quirk In The Allocation of Risk in Federal Government Contracts
Spring 2007	E-Discovery Favors the Prepared
Spring 2007	Does Your Expert Engineer Need To Be Licensed To Testify On Your Behalf?	Blake
Spring 2007	Changes to Pennsylvania’s Mechanics’ Lien Law	McKeon
Spring 2007	In Russia with Jack Tieder - Part II: Business Opportunities and the Legal System	Tieder
Spring 2007	The Intricacies of Indemnity: Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Broad Liability Under Indemnification Provisions	Wonderlick
Winter 2006-2007	Fail to Plan, Plan to Pay: Ignorance of the E-Discovery Amendments Can Be Costly
Winter 2006-2007	The Walls of Insulation Between Design Professionals and Sureties Fall a Little More
Winter 2006-2007	Big Construction in Northern Virginia - The Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project
Winter 2006-2007	Applying the U.S. Supreme Court's Decision in Adarand to California Construction Cases
Winter 2006-2007	Tortious Bad Faith Claims Against Sureties – Not in Nevada
Winter 2006-2007	In Russia With Jack Tieder - Part 1: Teaching	Tieder
Summer 2006	Proration of Liquidated Damages – A Fair Alternative?
Summer 2006	The Court of Federal Claims “Aces” The Government
Summer 2006	The Withdrawn Sub-Bid: When Will The Subcontractor Be Bound?	McCormick
Summer 2006	No Privity? No Problem. West Virginia Joins Those Jurisdictions Permitting Contractors' and Sureties' Direct Lawsuits Against Design Professionals	Sears
Winter 2005-2006	Practical Considerations In Dealing With Lease Guarantees
Winter 2005-2006	Recent Developments in Federal and State Arbitration Law	Ewald
Winter 2005-2006	When in California, Choose Your Arbitration Terms Carefully and Avoid a Two-Front War
Winter 2005-2006	Avoiding Pitfalls in Small Business Set-Aside Compliance
Winter 2005-2006	Contractual Waiver of Jury Trial Upheld Only in Limited Cases	Nemeth
Winter 2005-2006	Basics of the Bankruptcy Code: The Impact of Recent Changes in the Law	Worley
Summer 2005	XL Specialty Part II: Still No Final Answer on Virginia's Sovereign Immunity Defense to a Surety's Overpayment Claims
Summer 2005	Is There SCIF Space in Your Future?
Summer 2005	Beyond the Contract II: Third Party Claims Against A/E's and C/M's	McKeon
Summer 2005	Old "Whine" in New Bottles: Indemnitors’ Counterclaims Against Sureties in California – Part II	Worley
Summer 2005	Leave Me Out Of It: Practical Considerations For The Use Of "Trade-To-Trade" Dispute Provisions On Multi-Prime Projects	Suga

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