LEGAL: Best Practices for Project Documentation

Many construction contracts encounter issues that permit the contractor to request more time and/or money.  This session will focus on best practices to master contract requirements, ensure proper notice, and how to ensure recovery of maximum compensation and time. 

Breakfast will be included.

*LOCATION: NEW CEA HEADQUARTERS*

PRESENTER: 

Gregory Thompson

Partner - Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Gregory A. Thompson is a partner in Hahn Loeser’s nationally acclaimed Litigation, Construction, and Manufacturing & Automation practice areas. Greg is a seasoned litigator with a proven track record in a wide array of matters. He has significant experience handling complex commercial litigation, including breach of contract, Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), and business tort claims. Greg has also successfully handled significant intellectual property matters and employer intentional torts.

Greg has strengths across a number of industries, with an emphasis on construction, manufacturing, and automation. Greg has successfully pursued and defended multi-million-dollar claims involving delays, extra and changed work, and construction and manufacturing defects on both public and private projects. Greg regularly represents integrators, manufacturers, general contractors, construction managers, sureties, specialty subcontractors, and suppliers. Greg also maintains a robust pre-litigation practice with the aim of mitigating risk and avoiding disputes altogether.

Based on Greg’s successes for his clients, he was selected to and regularly serves as an instructor at The University of Akron School of Law’s Summer Trial Academy. Greg is also deeply invested in a number of industry trade associations and served as the chair of the Cleveland-Metropolitan Bar Association’s Litigation Section.