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Five Practical Tips for Government Contractors Navigating the Executive Order Chaos

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Federal government contractors are living in a climate of uncertainty. Executive orders affecting government contracts are being issued at a rapid pace. The executive orders tend to be broad and high-level with regulatory...more

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Recovering Adjudicators' Fees and Interest: Recent Guidance

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In this Insight, first published in PLC, Yorkie Fong considers the decision in A&V Building Solution Ltd v J&B Hopkins Ltd [2024] EWHC 2295 (TCC), which clarified the binding nature of an adjudicator's decision on their fees...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Limitation of Liability in Extra Work Order Trumped by Subcontract

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A federal court in Louisiana last week refused to enforce a limitation of liability provision included in an extra work order holding that it was trumped by the parties’ subcontract (see Planet Construction v. Gemini...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Joint Venture Agreements: For Better or For Worse; In Profit or In Loss

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Just like a bride and groom vow to join together for better or for worse, commercial parties joining together through a joint venture must make a similar promise to share in profits and losses. ...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

A Strict Approach to Notices as a Condition Precedent to Entitlement: The Impact for Contract Drafters and International...

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Maeda Corporation and China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong) Limited v Bauer Hong Kong Limited handed down in the Hong Kong Court of Appeal has significantly elevated the fundamental importance of so-called...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear YouDig? How to avoid a design-build debacle

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Dear YouDig?, We are a design builder. We hired a design team to do the preliminary design for our bid on a large DB project. We won the bid. Of course we warranted to the project owner that we would build the project, as...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Maryland Federal Court Upholds Contractual Indemnity Clause and Awards Judgment Interest and Attorneys Fees in Masonry Suit

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Skanska USA Building, Inc. v. J.D. Long Masonry, Inc., No. 1:16-cv-00933, 2019 BL 336852, (D. Md. Sept. 9, 2019) - On September 9, 2019, a Maryland federal court awarded Skanska USA Building, Inc. (“Skanska”) compensatory...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New York Court Holds Contractor’s Failure to Timely Pass Through Subcontractor Delay Claim to the Owner Constitutes Breach of the...

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Rad and D’Aprile, Inc. v. Arnell Construction Corp, No. 502464/14, 2019 BL 131606 (NY. Sup. Ct. April 3, 2019) - In June of 2001, Arnell Construction Corp. (“Arnell”) entered into a prime contract to build two sanitation...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Casting the First Stone: Contractors Considering Default Termination Should Examine Which Party Committed First Material Breach -...

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During a construction project, circumstances may arise that lead a general contractor to consider termination of a subcontractor’s right to proceed under the subcontract. The Randy Kinder Excavating v. J.A. Manning...more

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