Avoiding Claims by Managing Change to a Construction Contract
Recorded On: 06/24/2014
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Regardless of whom the stakeholder is, change impacts all parties and can have a dire effect on the project, finances and schedule. Learn ways an owner, surety, or contractor can protect themselves as change occurs. Presenters describe how to identify the risks associated with contract changes and some potential claims arising therefrom and ways to mitigate the impacts of changes to the schedule and construction costs.
Larry Prosen
Partner, Construction and Infrastructure Team, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP
Larry Prosen is a partner in the Construction and Infrastructure Team of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP, resident in its Washington, D.C. office. He also heads up the firm’s Government Contracts sub-team. Holding a BS in Architecture from the University of Maryland at College Park, Larry has practiced law for almost 20 years in the fields of construction litigation and government contracts. Over his career, he has represented contractors, subcontractors and sureties on hundreds of projects, claims, disputes and bid protests across the country and around the world. He has been involved as both claimant and defendant/surety counsel on literally hundreds of Miller Act and Little Miller Act disputes as well as private bond disputes involving all types of projects. He also has been involved in the drafting and negotiation of numerous contracts and subcontracts.
Paul Stynchcomb
Principal, Vero Construction Consultants Corp.
Mr. Stynchcomb is a Principal with Vero Construction Consultants Corp. Formally, Mr. Stynchcomb was a Senior Managing Director in the Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice of FTI Consulting. He has served the construction industry since 1984 as an expert in CPM scheduling, construction management, contract administration, and labor productivity. Prior to 1984, Mr. Stynchcomb held construction management positions in several major U.S. construction firms. Mr. Stynchcomb has been qualified as an expert in critical path method (“CPM”) scheduling, construction management, contract and subcontract administration, delay and cost impact analysis and loss of labor productivity in federal and state courts, boards of contract appeals, the Court of Federal Claims and before tribunals of the AAA and ICC.