Michael C. Zisa, a partner in the firm’s Washington, DC office, will be speaking at the 98th Annual AGC of America convention, March 7-9, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Zisa along with several members of the legal community will speak in a morning session on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. The presentation titled ” Contract Killer Clauses and How to Neutralize Them” will discuss how industry standard contracts like the just updated ConsensusDocs and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) can help or hurt you in leveraging industry standard contract documents to protect your bottom line. Attendees will gain insight in the just updates to the 2016 and 2017 ConsensusDocs standard contracts, learn how to Identify contract killer clauses that shift risk to the wrong party and how to effectively negotiating strategies to neutralize the worst contracts provision Key differences between the AGC-endorsed ConsensusDocs and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) standard contract documents.

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