This workshop will feature presentations by architects who are also attorneys along with hands-on participation by you and other attendees. Join us to discover how to avoid problems and missteps when selecting clients, evaluating projects, writing proposals, assessing professional/business risks in contracts, managing project services, and responding to professional liability claims.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to improve practices around client and project selection.
- Discover how to prepare better proposals that don't over-promise or create potential legal problems.
- Find out how to review and analyze client-proposed draft contracts to identify uninsurable provisions and onerous business terms and conditions.
- Explore what constitutes a professional liability "claim" and what steps to take in response to improve the chances of a successful outcome.
- R Williams, FAIA
Chief Legal Officer - HKS Architects - Charles Heuer, FAIA Member Emeritua
Principal - The Heuer Law Group, Charlottesville, VA - Charles Heuer, FAIA Member Emeritua
Principal - The Heuer Law Group, Charlottesville, VA - Donna Hunt, AIA, ESQ.
Senior Professional Liability Specialist - Risk Strategies Companies - Jacqueline Pons-Bunney,
Owner/Managing Partner - W&D Law, LLP