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Rooney Rule Revised Provides ESG Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

Last Monday the NFL announced at the owners meeting that it had approved adjustments to the Rooney Rule, first adopted in 2003, “to enhance opportunities for people of color and women for nearly all league and team jobs.”. It strikes us that the response to inequality should be as easy as “treat others the way they want to be treated” (.

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#85:  Who Decides Arbitrability?

NH Construction Law

486, 488 (2003), quoting AT&T Technologies v. The general rule is that questions of arbitrability are decided by the courts “unless the parties clearly and unmistakably provide otherwise.” ” Appeal of Town of Durham , 149 N.H. Communications Workers , 475 U.S. 643, 649 (1986). In Bossé v. 19-cv-016-SM (Nov.

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

It is possible to discriminate between healthy and failing projects prior to failure before the project execution phase in the capital facility delivery process. The equivalent figures for low-maturity organizations are just 36% and 43%. ( PMI ) 83% of high-performance organizations made an ongoing investment in project manager training.