This AGC webinar presented by Construction Risk Partners will discuss three areas of incidents and accidents including the Pre-incident, Incident, and Post-incident. The Pre-incident area will cover how to plan “for an incident from the smallest to the catastrophic.” The faculty will also explain “how to handle the first 24 hours of an incident or injury.” They will conclude with “how to control post incidents or injuries” including “how to work with the Insurance carriers or TPAS to properly report the incident, control cost, exposure, and bad PR.”

May 18th, 2021
Virtual Event

This two-day seminar will cover Montana construction law topics such as “procurement policies and trends under the Biden administration, construction contracting, IP issues, labor and employment, environmental issues, alternative dispute resolution procedures, and many others.” It’s relevant for architects, attorneys, contractors, and engineers.

June 24th-25th, 2021
Location TBD
Bozeman, MT

The 7th annual California Construction Law seminar will be a live webcast this year from Los Angeles, California. The event will “provide practical advice for real situations facing the industry today” and “will cover the latest developments and issues that you need to understand to complete a successful project.” The seminar is relevant for “contractors, subcontractors, owners (public and private), attorneys, construction managers, bond program managers, surety representatives, architects, and engineers.”

April 29th, 2021
Virtual Event

This live-streamed seminar will “provide insights into updated and aggressive discovery techniques that insurance defense attorneys can employ, including investigations into the use of litigation funding and Med Pay, how to handle settlement negotiations, and drafting best practices for discovery requests and notices to admit.” The program is relevant for insurance defense attorneys. Topics to be covered include a review of new state discovery rules, investigating whether a plaintiff has taken litigation funding, and discussing the effects of litigation loans and Med Pay on settlement negotiations, and more. The seminar faculty will be Diana Gerstberger of Arch Insurance Group, Inc. and attorney Ellen H. Greiper of Lewis Brisbois.

April 5th, 2021
Virtual Event

This year's virtual Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee's annual seminar will begin the first week of March. The conference will be conducted over a course of three weeks, with sessions running for a couple of hours on Thursdays and Fridays. The sessions will be offered on March 3-5, 11-12, and 18-19, 2021.

The annual conference is a must for insurance coverage practitioners and, while we will miss traveling to the desert in Tucson, this year can be enjoyed from your home or office. Policyholder lawyers, carrier lawyers, judges and industry experts will offer a variety of seminars ranging from such topics as coverage for COVID-19 business interruption claims to diversity and inclusion in the insurance industry. I will co-present on a panel addressing the future of Directors and Officers coverage. As list of programs offered is here.

Reprinted courtesy of Tred R. Eyerly, Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert
Mr. Eyerly may be contacted at te@hawaiilawyer.com

March 3rd-5th, 11th-12th, and 18th-19th, 2021
Virtual Event

Atlanta Partners Seth M. Friedman and Christopher Meeks will both participate at the American Bar Association’s (ABA) 2021 Virtual Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar taking place March 3-19.

As co-chair of the ABA’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee’s Annual Conference, Mr. Friedman is one of the leaders of the team responsible for the planning and preparation of this seminar and will guide the event as it takes place throughout March.

On the final day of the seminar, Friday, March 19, at 3:30 p.m. ET, Mr. Meeks will lead a breakout session titled “What's an ‘Occurrence’ Today?” The session will discuss recent appellate decisions and posit a series of hypotheticals concerning whether conduct that is seemingly intentional is “accidental” and, thus, qualifies as an “occurrence.”

Reprinted courtesy of Seth Friedman, Lewis Brisbois and Christopher Meeks, Lewis Brisbois
Mr. Friedman may be contacted at Seth.Friedman@lewisbrisbois.com
Mr. Meeks may be contacted at Christopher.Meeks@lewisbrisbois.com

March 3rd-19th, 2021
Virtual Event

In 2019, leadership from the Joint Virtual Coalition of American Structural Engineers (CASE), the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) and the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) jointly endorsed a Vision for the Future of Structural Engineering. Last year, CASE, NCSEA, and SEI furthered the goal by issuing a joint call to action pledging to identify and eradicate behaviors that perpetuate racism and inequality within the structural engineering profession. Later this month, the three organizations will host a virtual town hall meeting to discuss the progress to fulfill the vision and call to action. It will include an open question and answer session to continue the discussion.

February 23rd, 2021
Virtual Event

This two-day seminar is sponsored by The Construction Law Foundation of Texas (CLFT) and The Construction Law Section, in cooperation with the Texas Institute of CLE. Topics to be covered include Come on In, The Water’s Fine: Vouching in to Construction Disputes, No Partnership by Ambush – An Overview of Transactional Entities in Construction and Commercial Agreements, And If You Build On It, You Buy It. The conference will be accessible through Zoom or a similar, interactive platform. Attendees will have opportunities for questions and comments to the presenters.

March 4th-5th, 2021
Virtual Conference

Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, Engineering and Construction is a virtual two-day conference taking place on March 24-25, 2021. The program is published, and early bird registration is open until January 15, 2021.

The seed for this conference was planted with the preparation of the IABSE AI Workshop 2020. The high international interest towards the 2020 event showed that AEC industry has clear lack of this kind of global conference. Our industry is now ready to take the next step in AI deployment and move from building the foundation towards creating the value from data and AI.

March 24th-25th, 2021
Virtual Conference

This one-day seminar will discuss recent regulatory trends as well as what to expect in the future. It will also answer a series of important questions: “So how do regulations end up where they do? Who determines the final requirements? What has been the regulatory trends during the Trump Administration? What can the construction industry expect from the Biden Administration? How soon can we expect those regulations to take effect?” The seminar will be led by a panel of AGC of America regulation experts.

January 19th, 2021
Live Webinar

This first part of a two part series will focus on “basic scheduling terms and techniques so that you can understand the scheduling terminology and effectively communicate with your expert.” The following questions will be answered: What type of contract scheduling clauses work and what don’t? Should the schedule be resource and cost loaded? Who owns the float? What happens when a contractor submits an early completion schedule? What should you look for in a schedule update?

December 15th, 2020
Webinar