At this year’s Arizona State Bar Convention and at the Annual Convention hosted by Associated General Contractors of America, we will be focusing our presentations on social media and its growing impact on the construction industry.

Our clients are increasingly interested in better understanding the reality of social media and its inevitable intrusion upon customary solicitation and bidding, design review, construction management and project administration and delivery. As more construction projects go paperless, moreover, clients are wondering if the electronic and digital technology behind social media is going to dominate as the means of project communication or if social media will simply be relegated to personal networking between construction professionals. Many questions have also been raised about document and data retention policies for social media, especially when claims or litigation are anticipated.