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How Will Today’s Pandemic Impact Tomorrow’s Construction Contracts?

Published Date: October 20, 2020

This article was written for the ConsensusDocs newsletter and first appeared here. The emergence of COVID-19 has created a new set of challenges in the already complex world of negotiating construction contracts.  In the pre-COVID-19 era, general contractors, construction managers and those negotiating on their behalf, needed to balance a variety of fairly well-established legal risks and exposures and commercial [...] Read More

Is It Live…Or Is It Virtual?

Published Date: September 25, 2020

Attorneys Adrian L. Bastianelli, III, Paulo Flores, Kevin O'Connor, and Robert S. Peckar have written "Is It Live...Or Is It Virtual?," an article for the summer edition of Best Lawyers Magazine. They discuss in detail how best to make virtual mediation work and offer some thoughts on whether it's here to stay. Read the full article here. Read More

Lessons Learned From One of Miami’s First Zoom Bench Trials

Published Date: September 25, 2020

Attorneys Anne-Solenne Rolland and Freddy X. Muñoz, and Paralegal Katherine Gonzalez have written the article, "Lessons Learned From One of Miami’s First Zoom Bench Trials," for Daily Business Review/Law.com.  They discuss their experience after undertaking one of the first virtual week-long bench trials in Miami-Dade County in June and the valuable lessons they learned in providing effective and efficient representation. [...] Read More

Grappling With Viruses on Multiple Fronts: Ongoing Cyber Risk Management in the Age of COVID-19

Published Date: September 19, 2020

Richard R. Volack, Chair of Peckar & Abramson's Cyber Security & Data Privacy Practice, has written "Grappling With Viruses on Multiple Fronts: Ongoing Cyber Risk Management in the Age of COVID-19," an article for Construction Executive. Richard discusses the preventative measures that construction executives should take to keep the company and its computer systems safe from being “infected” with a [...] Read More

COVID in the Americas – A Review of Impacts, Responses, Challenges for Construction Sectors

Published Date: September 16, 2020

Jerry P. Brodsky, Partner and Director of Peckar & Abramson's Latin American Practice, has written the article, "COVID in the Americas - A Review of Impacts, Responses, Challenges for Construction Sectors," for Daily Business Review/Law.com.  Jerry discusses the similarities and differences between the impacts, responses, and challenges for construction in Latin America and the United States. For those with access, [...] Read More