Management Advisories

Our Advisories have been arranged alphabetically by topic. **Denotes a recently added Advisory.

• Construction Phase
• Contracts
• Design-Build
• Employment Practices
• Insurance
• Legal
• Management
• Marketing
• Mold
• Practice
• Residential/Condo Risks
• Risk Allocation
• Risk Mitigation

Construction Phase

• A201-1997: Changes
• A201-1997: Owner's Interests
• Change Orders
• Construction Process
• Observations or Inspection of the Work
• Selection of a Low Bidder
• Shop Drawings
• Site Safety
• Why Contractors Need Professional Liability Insurance

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Contracts

• AGC 245 - Short Form Owner-A/E Agreement
• Agreement Forms
• Construction Owners Association of America
• Oral Agreements
• Providing Services in Emergency Situations
• Purchase Orders
• Termination, Suspension and Abandonment
• Warranties

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Design-Build

• Evaluating Projects
• Insurance
• Marketing Design-Build Services
• Subcontracting Services
• Subcontractor Risks

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Employment Practices

• Hiring and Firing
• Leasing Professional Employees
• Obligations to Returning Soldiers
• Protection from Downsizing Litigation
• Sexual Harassment
• Staffing Up
• Third-Party Sexual Harassment
• Using Non-Competition Covenants

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Insurance

• Additional Insureds
• Deductibles and Limits
• Endorsements
• Mergers, Acquisitions and Dissolutions
• Professional Liability Insurance Coverage
• Property Insurance Waiver of Subrogation
• Using Owner-Supplied Documents
• Waiver of Subrogation

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Legal

• Architect-of-Record or Site Architect
• As-Built or Record Documents
• California Calderon Procedures
• Client-Selected Consultants
• Codes and Standards
• Contractual Risks on Native American Projects
• Discovery Rules
• Electronic Signature Law
• Expert Witnesses
• Intellectual Property Risks
• Joint and Several Liability
• Liability for the Services of Others
• Liquidated Damages Provisions
• Maintaining the Paper Trail
• Mediation
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• OSHA's Citation Policy
• Prevailing Party
• Professional Liability and Tort Reform
• Standard of Care
• Statutes of Repose/Limitations
• Strategic Alliances
• Surveyors: Certifications
• Tribal Law
• Vicarious Liability

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Management

• Certifications
• Controlling Exposure to Risk
• Document Protection
• Electronic Information Transfer Issues
• Email
• Fiduciary Duty
• Joint Venture
• Lenders: Mandated Certifications
• Lenders: Requirements for Assignments
• Record or As-Built Documents
• Records Retention: Establishing a Policy
• Records Retention: New Challenges
• Schedule Concerns
• See You in Court!
• Total Quality Management

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Marketing

• Procurement of Professional Services
• Security Design
• You Are What You Are Perceived to Be

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Mold

• Design Checklist
• Growing Concern
• Litigation and Design Professionals
• Management Oversight

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Practice

• Bridging
• Business Software Piracy
• Client Expectations and Communication
• Communication Backup and Restoration
• Disaster Recovery
• Duties of a Professional Engineer
• Emergency Planning, Response and Recovery
• Forms of Practice
• Green Buildings
• Identifying, Assessing and Managing Project Risk
• International Building Code
• International Practice
• Internet-Based Project Management Systems
• ISO 9000 Series Standards
• Licensing
• Placing Project Information on a Website
• Preparing for a Power Outage
• Services for Prototype Designs
• Signing and Sealing Drawings
• Signing and Sealing Drawings by Others
• Small Firm Practice Management
• Specifying New Products and Technologies
• Study and Report Risk Management
• Surveyor Information: Electronic Transfer
• Tips for Practicing Outside the U.S.
• Using Contractor-supplied Electronic Information

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Residential/Condo Risks

• Condo Design Liability
• Facing Residential Claims
• Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines
• Reducing Litigation on Condo Projects
• "Relativity" of Habitability Claims
• Suggestions for Condo Design Contracts

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Risk Allocation

• Arbitration
• Defending and Indemnifying a Client
• Design or Construction Deficiencies
• General Rules for Effective Risk Allocation
• Indemnification: General Issues
• Indemnification: Subconsultants
• Limitation of Liability
• Limitation of Liability: Subconsultants
• Negotiating Indemnity Provisions
• Partnering
• "Safe Harbor" Provision
• Segregating Risk and Billings
• Serving as a Conduit for Services
• Using Independent Contractors

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Risk Mitigation

• Fee Collection
• Independent Reviews
• Interprofessional Agreements
• Shop Drawing Exposures

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