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Contractors Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing

Smith Gambrell Russell

A Century Later: Implied Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing Still Going Strong

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Parties to construction contracts are often surprised to learn that they are bound to implied unwritten contract obligations in addition to the written terms of their contracts. Courts in the United States began to...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear YouDig? Pigs get roasted

Dear YouDig?, We just finished a project where and thought we paid all of our subcontractors.  About a month after completion, our accounting department however found that our drywall sub submitted invoices a while back...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A Dangerous Myth: That a Great Subcontract Will Prevent Claims on a Poorly-Executed Project - Construction and Procurement Law...

Well-drafted, legally-enforceable agreements are key to any construction company’s risk management strategy. This is especially true for subcontracts, which serve as a contractor’s critical tool to coordinate a successful...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Federal Court Determines that General Contractor’s Unreasonable Exercise of its Broad Discretion over Scheduling and Sequencing of...

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In a recent decision, Elec. Contractors, Inc. v. Fid. & Deposit Co. of Maryland, No. 3:13-CV-00514 MPS, 2015 WL 1444481 (D. Conn. Mar. 30, 2015), the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut dismissed on...more

Nexsen Pruet, PLLC

"Termination for Convenience Clauses in the Private Arena: Traps Every Construction Practitioner Should Know"

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Originally published in the SC Bar Construction Law Section's "News and Notes" in January 2012. If you do a thesaurus search of the word “termination,” you’ll find: “extinction, annihilation, execution, slaughter, and...more

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