AGC Legal Brief Highlights Cedroni Decision, Other Recent Michigan Cases

The February, 2011 issue of the AGC Legal Brief highlights a number of recent court decisions affecting design professionals, contractors, subcontractors and lien claimants in Michigan.

This issue of the Legal Brief was written by Aileen M. Leipprandt, a construction  attorney with the Hilger Hammond firm in Grand Rapids, and includes the following articles:

• Contractor Gets a Shot at Proving Architect Improperly Interfered with Bid Award [reporting on the November 2010 Michigan Court of Appeals deicsion in Cedroni Associates, Inc v Tomblinson, Harburn Associates, Mich Ct App No.  287024  (Nov 16, 2010]

• Contractor Holds Airport Authority's Feet to the Fire Despite Absence of Signed Contract [which discusses The Garrison Company v Bishop Int'l Airport decision]

•  Construction Lien Has Priority over Mortgage Regardless of Change in General Contractor and Project Ownership [which details decision in First Community Bank v Mountainaire, LLC, et al., Mich Ct App No. 293005 (Oct 21, 2010)] 

• You Snooze, You Lose - Subcontractor's Lien Invalid Where Warranty Work Did Not Extend Time to Record Lien [reporting on Stock Building Supply, LLC v Parsley Homes of Mazuchet Harbor, LLC, et al., Mich Ct App No. 294098  (Jan 25, 2011)]

• What's New in the New AIA A-312 Payment and Performance Bonds? 

The AGC Legal Brief is published quarterly by the AGC of Michigan and its Legal Advisory Committee. The full text of the February, 2011 issue can be found here at the AGC's website.

AGC of Michigan Contruction Law, Upcoming Seminars

In addition to its upcoming Construction Law Webinar Series, AGC of Michigan is presenting its annual Professional Development Day on March 5, 2010 at the VisTaTech Center in Livonia. There will be 7 sessions divided into two tracks.  For more information or to sign-up and attend contact the AGC of Michigan at (517) 371-1550, or click here:   

Track 1: Becoming Incident and Injury Free

> Session I: Transform Your Safety Culture

> Session II: Safe Start

> Building a Winning Team

Track 2: Sell Yourself-Sell Your Company

> Session I: Successful Projects through Effective Project Controls (*)

> Session II: Failure or Success/How Do You Define Success?

> Session III: It's Not What I Say - It's What I Do

> Session IV: Social Networking - the Newest Tool in Your Toolbox

(*) Peter Cavanaugh, Cavanaugh & Quesada, PLC will be speaking on the legal aspects of project management topic, together with Joe Vanden Bossche, Navigant Consulting.

AGC of Michigan Announces Construction Law Webinar Series

As a follow-up to its October 30, 2009 seminar, AGC of Michigan has announced a series of lunchtime webinars featuring some of the authors of the recently-updated publication "Contractor's Guide to Michigan Construction Law" (Rev'd 2009).
  

Webinar 1 - January 20, 2010 - 11:30 to 1:00 p.m.

• Bids, Bidders and Bid Protests
  
• The Contract for Construction: Standard Forms and Common Risk Transferring Provisions; 
• Overview of State and Federal Prevailing Wage Law

Webinar 2 - February 10, 2010 - 11:30 to 1:00 p.m.

• Contract Changes / Differing Site Conditions
  
• Defective Plans and Specs
• Delays in Contract Performance
• Concepts in Business Valuation, Potential Financial Statement Impacts and More Accounting, Tax and Financial Issues

Webinar 3 - March 17, 2010 - 11:30 to 1:00 p.m.

• Estate and Business Succession Planning for the Contractor
•  Bankruptcy and the Construction Industry
• Dealing with the Media and Press in Corporate Crisis Situations
  

Click here for more information and to register for one or all of these webinars.

AGC of Michigan Sponsor's Construction Law Seminar

On October 30, 2009, AGC of Michigan is hosting a seminar to address a number of pressing legal issues facing contractors today including payment, dispute resolution mechanisms, hiring and firing of employees, and bankruptcy.

This seminar will also launch the 3rd Edition of "A Contractor's Guide to Michigan Construction Law," which has been in the works now for almost a year. Participants will receive a copy of this important legal update.

Click here for more information about this seminar or to register.