Contract Disputes, Construction Contracts, Arbitration Agreements

Ohio Courts Reinforce Arbitration Provisions Despite Conflict, Missing Signatures and Litigation

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 5/9/2025

Ohio courts are reaffirming a consistent and increasingly important theme: if your contract contains an arbitration clause, expect to be held to it. Three recent appellate decisions—Denham v. Encino Energy, LLC,...more

Disputes on Major Subsurface Projects: Sources, and the Promise of Early Contractor Involvement

MG+M The Law Firm on 3/18/2025

Disputes are inherent on major subsurface projects. Typically, these disputes arise out of differing subsurface conditions and disagreements about the roles, responsibilities, and risks of the various project participants in...more

How Not to Frustrate an Arbitrator

JAMS on 3/11/2025

Common Mistakes Attorneys Should Avoid in Arbitration - A recent federal court ruling held that an arbitration award would be enforced under the facts of that case, regardless of whether the parties considered the award...more

Litigation or Arbitration: Which is Better for Adjudicating Contract Disputes?

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/22/2025

Ask anyone with experience on construction projects, particularly large, complex “mega-projects,” and they will tell you that disputes are an expected part of doing business. It is rare that these projects come in on schedule...more

The Collective Cost Paid For Arbitration’s Numerous Benefits

Stoel Rives - Ahead of Schedule on 12/20/2024

Arbitration agreements have become commonplace in construction contracts. As a result, a significant portion of construction disputes are resolved privately through arbitration rather than in public courts. This article...more

Efforts Expected of a Contractor When Efforts Clauses Are in Dispute

Stoel Rives - Ahead of Schedule on 5/22/2023

Originally published by the Daily Journal of Commerce on May 18, 2023. You will often see in construction contracts terms directing the contractor to use “best efforts” or “reasonable efforts” or “commercially reasonable...more

What Parties Ought To Consider When Considering Arbitration Provisions

Stoel Rives - Ahead of Schedule on 5/22/2023

When reviewing a proposed design or construction contract, the responding party will often do a cursory check to see whether the contract proposes arbitration or litigation for dispute resolution. So long as the proposed...more

Arbitration or Court for Construction Disputes: The Pros and Cons

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 3/16/2023

Many construction contracts used in the industry include clauses mandating that any disputes be decided by binding arbitration rather than a jury or bench trial. The standard AIA forms provide the parties with the option of...more

Attacks on Contract’s Validity are Likely Insufficient to Overcome the Binding Effect of the Contract’s Arbitration Provision

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/22/2021

A recent opinion from the Court of Appeals of Georgia illustrates that contracts entered into with an unlicensed contractor, which are often unenforceable by an unlicensed contractor under many states’ laws, likely will not...more

Arbitrator: Produce Those Construction Documents . . . And Me: You Have No Authority!

Buchalter on 11/19/2019

Construction disputes often involve voluminous amounts of discovery, including documents in the hand of third parties. And if the case is subject to arbitration, it is likely that there will be a dispute about whether the...more

My Roof, My Rules: Arbitrators May Determine Their Own Jurisdiction When the Parties Delegate that Authority

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 9/21/2017

An issue that repeatedly comes up in construction disputes is the scope of an arbitration agreement. Courts generally interpret agreements to arbitrate broadly, and, where the arbitrability of a specific claim has been at...more

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