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Pre-Bid Documents and Estimates Can’t Be Hidden Behind the Curtain in Disputed Delay Claims

Best Practices Construction Law

12, 2021), the contractor filed suit to recover damages from the City on numerous combined waste water treatment projects. The contractor claimed that the City breached its contract by supplying incomplete and inaccurate contract documents, which allegedly caused delays and a two-year extension to the project completion. 652478 (N.Y.

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ESG is Not Just for Public Companies

Green Building Law Update

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. yes, this blog will continue).

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Arbitration Update – The 2021 ICDR Arbitration Rules: A Welcome Update for International Construction Arbitration

Constructlaw

1 The 2021 update marks the first time the ICDR’s arbitration rules and mediation rules have been revised since 2014 and 2008, respectively, and is of particular note to the construction industry both in the United States and elsewhere.???????. Definition of International Arbitration (the Introduction).

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SEC Chair Tweets about Upcoming ESG Regulation

Green Building Law Update

The last formal remarks on ESG by Gensler were on July 28, 2021 before the European Parliament. Continuing with the analogy to fat free milk, Gensler described that an investor in a fund making ESG claims should be like a supermarket shopper reading a food box label for the “ingredients underlying these funds.”

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A Call for Comprehensive and Clearer ESG Disclosures

Green Building Law Update

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implementing with due haste.

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There are More than 40 Million People in Modern Slavery

Green Building Law Update

A January 18, 2021 report by the UK Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner is both a wake-up call and a useful guide on preventing modern slavery and human trafficking. Ethical labor is becoming widely considered and articulated in ESG disclosures in 2021 by clients of this firm. They are also far ahead of the U.S.

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Water is the Most Important ESG Factor

Green Building Law Update

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “ESG an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Supreme Court squarely rejected Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee’s wells are stealing Mississippi’s ground water.