“The conference submissions we received and the conference developed by our outstanding advisory board stand to make this the best CSC ever,” says Conference Director Kevin Gaffney. Scheduled for December 4-6 at the Encore at the Wynn Hotel in La

The answer is based upon one’s perspective Now that Mr. Trump is president his actions and the actions of the executive branch of the government continue to drive political and administrative activity in Washington. The opinions of political analys

The city is one of the first in the country to enact this type of legislation. It is usually a given that employers have the stronger hand when negotiating employment agreements with prospective employees. Often employers ask job applicants for the d

The initiative, launched under President Obama, has been repealed. The Fair Play and Safe Workplaces Act was signed into law by President Obama in 2014. As Edward T. DeLisle and Carl J. Vernetti report in the Federal Construction Contracting Blog, bo

Obama-era rules are on hold pending further review. The Trump administration has postponed implementation of rules that would have required measuring the output of greenhouse gas emissions on federal highways. Timothy Cama, writing in THE HILL, brief

Sequestration of waste CO2 in old gas wells will be a boon for the coal industry. According to an Associated Press bulletin by Blake Nicholson reported in enr.com, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Scott Pruitt, has approved a prop

The 2017 Construction SuperConference (CSC), to be held Dec. 4-6, 2017 in Las Vegas at the Encore at Wynn Hotel will dive into many legal construction practice areas. Now in its 33rd year, CSC is recognized as the preeminent construction conference d

President Trump has promised to rebuild America; our industry can help him do it. During the election campaign, Mr. Trump inspired those who elected him with the slogans—Make America Great Again and America First. His critics, over half of the peop

The court clarified the parameters of torts-premises liability. There is long-established precedent that a prime contractor is not liable for injuries to an employee of its subcontractor. This is known, in California, as the Privette doctrine. Howeve