Richard R. Volack, Chair of Peckar & Abramson's Cyber Security & Data Privacy Practice, has written "Grappling With Viruses on Multiple Fronts: Ongoing Cyber Risk Management in the Age of COVID-19," an article for Construction Executive. Richard discusses the preventative measures that construction executives should take to keep the company and its computer systems safe from being “infected” with a [...] Read More

Jerry P. Brodsky, Partner and Director of Peckar & Abramson's Latin American Practice, has written the article, "COVID in the Americas - A Review of Impacts, Responses, Challenges for Construction Sectors," for Daily Business Review/Law.com.  Jerry discusses the similarities and differences between the impacts, responses, and challenges for construction in Latin America and the United States. For those with access, [...] Read More

Robert S. Peckar and Denis Serkin have written "Dispute Resolution in Construction Projects," a chapter for the 10th edition of The Law Reviews' The Projects and Construction Review. Read the chapter here. Read More

In our previous alert, we discussed the Federal Government’s Ban (the “Ban”) on certain Chinese covered telecommunications and video surveillance equipment and services in federal government contracts.  The ban prohibits government contractors and subcontractors from supplying to the Federal Government or using in their own internal operations certain telecommunications or video surveillance equipment or services produced by Huawei Technologies Company, [...] Read More

In our previous alert, we discussed the expansion on the Section 889(a)(1)(B) ban on certain Chinese telecommunications equipment and services to contractors and subcontractors who use the equipment and services in their internal operations.  Effective August 13, 2020, federal agencies were prohibited from procuring, obtaining, extending, or renewing a contract with a contractor that uses equipment, systems, or services that [...] Read More