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San Francisco, California, opened its golden gate to welcome the Forum back for its 2010 Mid-Winter Meeting. Like San Francisco itself, this meeting was a great mix of the new and the old.The Forum returned to the historic Westin St. Francis Hotel and reunited with our friends at the Fidelity & Surety Law Committee. The Forum also welcomed a new co-sponsor, the ABA Section of Public Contract Law. Together, we assembled a timely program in the hottest area in the U.S. construction market and perhaps the most challenging area in U.S. construction law: "Government Construction Contracting."
The program provided instruction by many of the country's leading government contracting and construction law experts in the most common and most cutting edge issues facing participants in projects owned or funded by federal, state or local governments. The topics included hot issues in contractor claims against the federal government; tricky issues on publicly-funded, privately-owned projects; government claims for defects discovered after project acceptance; mandatory disclosures, compliance programs, and false claims; the legal issues surrounding federal and state governments' use of design-build; and legal ethics issues unique to advising government construction contractors. This full-day program included six plenary sessions, all with the goals of providing counsel for government owners, contractors, designers, sureties and other project participants with must-have information to assist their respective clients, whether they are new to government construction or just trying to keep up with the latest legal and market developments. Your comments and suggestions about the CD, Web Site and the Forum are always welcome. Give Us Your Feedback... (Click on People's Pictures Below to Read their Biographies)
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