Construction Defect Case In Arizona Examines Policy Coverage of Arbitrator’s...
CD Coverage has a nice summary of a recent construction defect case in Arizona: In American Family Mut. Ins. Co. v. Spectre West Builders Corp., No. CV09-968-PHX-JAT (D. Ariz. Feb. 4, 2011),...
View ArticleEd Poll on Technology for Lawyers: Buy with the Head, Not the Heart
Legal consultant and coach, Ed Poll, is an expert at offering advice to attorneys on everything from practice management, business development, succession planning, and strategy for lawyers and law...
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Is It Time For A National Lien Law Statute?
The concept of the Mechanics Lien is an essential and integral part of the ongoing business of designing and constructing the built environment. Yet the most basic concepts of lien laws are not widely...
View ArticleMainstream adoption of green building standards by building code officials
Sean Lintow, Sr. of SLS Construction & Building Solutions has an awesome guest post on the future of building codes and green building standards up at Christopher Hill’s always excellent...
View ArticleShould architects be fingerprinted? The State of Texas thinks so.
I have seen some architectural designs that one might consider to be criminal, but requiring all architects to be fingerprinted as part of licensure? That seems a tad extreme. Starting January 1, 2014,...
View ArticleIs Binding Arbitration always bad?
The Consumerist’s Chris Morran has a post up about why they believe consumers should always opt out of what they call “forced arbitration” clauses. Here is one of the reasons they give: Companies want...
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What is an Environmental Product Declaration and how does it impact standard...
As many people know, LEED v4 took a lot longer to be finalized than originally anticipated—largely due to political struggles involving key stakeholders and certain large enterprises. As many of my...
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Important Court Decisions Impacting Construction Claims in California – Part...
As promised, over the coming weeks and months, we’ll be publishing a series of articles gleaned from West Coast Casualty’s 2014 Construction Defect Seminar. This article focuses on one appellate...
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The Value of Human Capital in the increasingly technology-dependent legal...
The more things change, in some way, the more things seem to stay the same. One of the constants in my ongoing education as a marketer in the legal industry is the sage advice of Ed Poll’s LawBizBlog....
View ArticleQuality Built Founder Stan Luhr Leaves Company to Focus on Builder Forensic...
A nationally recognized forensic construction expert and developer of the Quality Built® program has left his position with the newly formed Quality Built LLC only eight months after new management...
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