More Happy News from ABI...
...don't shoot the messenger...just passing on what everyone already knows: this recession is a doozy.
Port of Seattle Investigation Report
After its audit woes hit the front page earlier this year, the Port retained a fraud investigation team to conduct an internal investigation of the Port's contracting practices. The report, attached here for review, is a rare and detailed inside look at some unusual goings on at a large public owner.
Recent Developments & Lessons Learned Talk
In case you want to catch up on some developments in the past year or so, check out the attached Powerpoint talk which was presented today to a group of PUD & municipal lawyers.
We covered recent legislative innovations (i.e., the modifications to the GC/CM statute & the fairly new Bidder Responsibility statute) as well as some notice cases in the Mike Johnson genre.
The presentation also covers some recurring owner liability issues (i.e, Spearin, differing site conditions, acceleration, inconclusive change orders, etc) and what you can do about them to limit risk.
