Client Alerts & Publications
Hunker Down and Don’t Get Burned
Authors: Angela A.L. Connor,
Published Date: November 3, 2020
This article was written for the ConsensusDocs newsletter and first appeared here. This year has been one for the record books, to say the least. Not only has the pandemic disrupted businesses around the globe and certain construction projects, but we have seen a record-breaking year for wildfires throughout the United States and the hurricanes in the Atlantic and Gulf [...] Read More
Essential Employees Who Contract COVID-19 May Be Entitled to Workers’ Compensation Benefits: What New Jersey Employers Need to Know
Authors: Aaron C. Schlesinger,
Published Date: October 20, 2020
New Jersey employers make note: A recently enacted amendment to the New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Act entitles “essential employees”—including construction and many other types of private sector workers—who contract COVID-19 to the presumption that their illness is work-related. Significantly, this amendment is retroactive to March 9, 2020, the date of the initial pandemic state of emergency declaration in New Jersey. [...] Read More
How Will Today’s Pandemic Impact Tomorrow’s Construction Contracts?
Published Date: October 20, 2020
This article was written for the ConsensusDocs newsletter and first appeared here. The emergence of COVID-19 has created a new set of challenges in the already complex world of negotiating construction contracts. In the pre-COVID-19 era, general contractors, construction managers and those negotiating on their behalf, needed to balance a variety of fairly well-established legal risks and exposures and commercial [...] Read More
Is It Live…Or Is It Virtual?
Published Date: September 25, 2020
Attorneys Adrian L. Bastianelli, III, Paulo Flores, Kevin O'Connor, and Robert S. Peckar have written "Is It Live...Or Is It Virtual?," an article for the summer edition of Best Lawyers Magazine. They discuss in detail how best to make virtual mediation work and offer some thoughts on whether it's here to stay. Read the full article here. Read More
Lessons Learned From One of Miami’s First Zoom Bench Trials
Authors: Anne-Solenne Rolland, Freddy X. Muñoz,
Published Date: September 25, 2020
Attorneys Anne-Solenne Rolland and Freddy X. Muñoz, and Paralegal Katherine Gonzalez have written the article, "Lessons Learned From One of Miami’s First Zoom Bench Trials," for Daily Business Review/Law.com. They discuss their experience after undertaking one of the first virtual week-long bench trials in Miami-Dade County in June and the valuable lessons they learned in providing effective and efficient representation. [...] Read More
