Construction Contracts: Drafting tips, pitfalls, and case law

Gregory J. Spaun
Gregory J. Spaun | Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP

Gregory J. Spaun is a Partner at Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP, practicing construction and commercial litigation, and real estate and property litigation.

On-Demand: July 27, 2023

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Program Summary

Those in the construction industry know that there's no such thing as perfect construction. Even the best projects will have unplanned deviations from the original plans. Similarly, there is no such thing as a perfect construction contract. No person is able to anticipate every potential event on a jobsite sufficient to deal with it in the contract. The best that practitioners can strive for—similar to what our Founders did at the Constitutional Convention—is to form a more perfect contract. This program is designed to provide insights as to how to best draft that more perfect construction contract by addressing the more commonly encountered problems, and the provisions used to address them.

This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.

Key topics to be discussed:

  • Drafting tips
  • Common Pitfalls
  • Case Law updates

Date / Time: July 27, 2023

Closed-captioning available

Speakers

Gregory J. Spaun_Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP_FedBarGregory J. Spaun | Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP

Gregory J. Spaun is a Partner at Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP, practicing construction and commercial litigation, and real estate and property litigation. Mr. Spaun’s representative work includes cases such as North Star Construction Corp. v MTA Capital Construction Corp., where, on appeal, he rebuffed an owner/designer’s attempt to have a negligent misrepresentation claim dismissed, successfully arguing that the owner/designer, by specifying a sole source supplier and then working with that supplier when issues arose as to the novel product the owner has specified, had a relationship with the subcontractor which was, the “functional equivalent of privity” sufficient to maintain such a claim despite that no direct contractual relationship existed between the subcontractor and the owner/designer.

Mr. Spaun’s work also includes 110 Central Park South Corp. v 112 Central Park South, LLC, where he was successful in arguing that the former common law implied housing warranty was subsumed into the recently enacted Section 777 of New York’s General Business Law, which provides a statutory housing warranty on buildings which are five stories or less, thus negating the ability of the owner of a 29 story cooperative building to assert such a claim. Mr. Spaun, in Kamco Supply Corp. v JMT Brothers Realty, LLC, was also successful in rebuffing a claim on appeal by an unlicensed home improvement contractor’s material supplier, thus reminding the construction community of the importance of vetting the licensure status of their upstream contractors so as to preserve their ability to assert claims which are derivative of the general contractor’s claims, such as mechanic’s lien claims. In addition to his work at WB&G, Mr. Spaun serves as General Counsel to the Queens and Bronx Building Association.

Agenda

I. Drafting tips | 11:00am – 11:45am

II. Common pitfalls (part I) | 11:45am – 12:00pm

Break | 12:00pm – 12:10pm

III. Common pitfalls (part II) | 12:10pm – 12:40pm

IV. Case law updates | 12:40pm – 1:10pm

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