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Matthew DeVries
Best Practices Construction Law is a legal blog authored by Matthew J. DeVries, a shareholder at Buchalter, a full-service business law firm with offices across several U.S. states. The blog focuses on legal issues and best practices within the construction industry, covering topics such as risk assessment, claims management, contract drafting, project management, technology in construction, alternative dispute resolution, and legal trends. It provides analysis and commentary relevant to contractors, developers, owners, and other stakeholders involved in construction projects, including public infrastructure and commercial developments. The content aims to address practical problems and solutions encountered in construction law and project execution.
482 published works
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Haiti, Shoddy Construction and a Helping Hand
It is hard to begin a day's work with a warm cup of coffee, a clean office and a (fairly) new computer ... knowing about the devastation in another country. …
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CalGreen, Take Me Away! (California Adopts Greenest Building Code to Date)
CalGreen "California green building code" "Sierra Club" "Natural Resources Defense Council" USGBC "Elaine Hsieh"
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How Do You Do It All: Work? Family? Blog? Answer: Google Reader
A week does not go by without a friend, colleague, or new acquaintance asking me, "How do you do it all?" The short answer: "It's tough ... very tough ... but…
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Greenest City in the South: Panel Addresses Whether Nashville Can Get There
When Nashville Mayor Karl Dean created the Green Ribbon Committee on Environmental Sustainability, he had lofty goals of making Nashville the greenest city in the Southeast. Indeed, Tennessee's Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey…
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Reading Between the Lines: Construction Industry Targeted in Congressional Health Care Reform Package
On December 24, 2009, the United States Senate voted to pass its own version of the health care package. You have probably heard cries about the length of the bill (1,990 pages). You have…
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Sometimes It Is Too Late to Withdraw Condemnation Proceedings
Is it too late to discuss a case from 2009? Nah. Especially if the court released the opinion within the past two months. And according to the decision in Shelby County v. Crews…
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Best Practices: My Top Three Year-End and Year-Forward Assessments
Everyone knows that this is a slow week for work ... unless you work in retail and there is a mad, crazy 75% off sale. For me, I am using…
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TN Legislative Update: New Workers’ Comp Law Affecting Construction Industry Goes Into Effect January 1, 2010
Back in November, I wrote about a Tennessee Attorney General Opinion that addressed the new workers' compensation law in Tennessee that requires sole proprietors to carry workers' compensation insurance on themselves. (Traditionally, there…
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Lessons from a Bankruptcy Judge: Learn How to Write
"Pay me less before the dispute erupts ... or pay me more after the dispute erupts ..." is a phrase that many construction litigators have said to their clients. What that means, practically, is…
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The Green Construction Performance Bond: The Friction, A Legislative Dilemma and the Current Environment
This guest post was written by Kevin Kaiser of SuretyBonds.com, specializing in teaching consumers about surety bonds through the Surety Bond Education Center. I do not represent Kevin or his company,…