2023 Construction Law Seminar Course Materials

2023 Construction Law Seminar

July 26-28, 2023
Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

2023 Program Co-Chairs
John Watt
BAKER STERCHI COWDEN & RICE L.L.C.
Kansas City, Missouri

Nora Loftus 
FRANTZ WARD LLP
Cleveland, Ohio

Course Book Editor
Philip Sumner 
BAKER STERCHI COWDEN & RICE L.L.C.
Kansas City, Missouri

Course Materials

Plenary Sessions

  • Avoiding the Wipe Out Between Contract and Completion
  • Crikey! Where’s Steve Irwin When You Need Him? Keeping Your Corporate Representatives from Being Eaten Alive by the Reptile Theory
  • Clean Energy Production and Resilient Design: Climbing the “Range” of Challenges to a Panorama of Opportunities

Breakout Sessions – Group 1

  • Designers v. Contractors: Common Project Disagreements and Legal Battlegrounds
  • How to Thrive at the Bottom of the Sewer Pipe: Hot Topics and Best Practices for Managing Indemnity Risk in Construction Defect Litigation

Breakout Sessions – Group 2

  • Blurred Lines? How Product Failures Amplify Exposures Facing Designers, Contractors and Insurers
  • How to Remove an Arbitrator

Breakout Sessions – Group 3

  • We All Know What Happens When You Assume (the Risk): Indemnification in Construction Cases
  • Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve– What to do when a construction issue arises and how to properly document for future resolution or litigation

Breakout Sessions – Group 4

  • Insurance Certificates, Endorsements, and COI Pitfalls
  • Performance Bonds and Commercial General Liability Insurance for Construction Projects: Understanding the Differences and Overlap