Emerging Contractual Issues
in the Design & Construction Industry
Speaker: David Ericksen, Severson & Werson
Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Berkeley Yacht Club, 1 Seawall Drive, Berkeley, CA 94710
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Meeting Agenda:
6:15 p.m. - Pre-registration/bar opens
6:45 p.m. - Bell rings
7:00 p.m. - Dinner
7:30 p.m. - Presentation begins
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Why you should attend:
In this presentation, Construction Practice Leader David Ericksen, Severson & Werson, will address the professional service agreement, alternative delivery models, and employee policies.
Under the professional service agreement section, David will cover:
• Confidentiality
• Ownership of Work Product
• Conscience Clauses
• Assumption of Preliminary Site Information
• Indemnity (post CA 496 and CDP Coverage)
• Code Compliance
• Pass Through Clauses
David will also highlight concerns and risks with corresponding contractual and practice solutions.
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About the Speaker:
Mr. Ericksen is a trusted resource and advocate to the professional service community (design, construction, environmental, real estate, and insurance) and passionately committed to collaboration in their long-term strategic success.
David Ericksen currently serves as a Member of Severson & Werson’s Executive Committee after serving as President from 2009-2012. Since 1997, Mr. Ericksen has led the Firm’s Construction/Environmental Litigation and Transactional Practice, as well as focus on liability and insurance issues through insurers. For over twenty years, he has repeatedly and successfully represented design professionals in jury trial, bench trial, single arbitrator arbitration, and panel arbitration as well as mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution in state and federal courts. He has built on that experience of troubled projects and contracts and failed communications to become a trusted resource and counselor on the risk management strategies to avoid such disputes through strategic planning and management. In that capacity, he focuses on contractual, risk management and litigation issues affecting the design, construction, environmental, real estate, and insurance professional community. He does so both as outside general counsel to many firms as well as short term interventions in pursuit of strategic solutions and remedies As a result, he is a frequent speaker before construction professional organizations such as the AIA, SEA, ACEC, NSPE, SDA, CSI and others, and also provides in-house training seminars and strategic planning for firms. He has written numerous articles addressing issues important to the design and construction communities which have been published by professional organizations and industry related periodicals.
Mr. Ericksen joined Severson & Werson in 1991 and has been a Member since 1997. He has been the Firm’s lead construction trial and arbitration counsel since 1996. He is a graduate of the Law School at the University of California, Berkeley after receiving multiple undergraduate degrees from Pacific Lutheran University. Prior to joining Severson & Werson, Mr. Ericksen served as the law clerk to Justice James M. Dolliver of the Washington State Supreme Court. He has been admitted to the Bar of the States of California and Washington and multiple Federal Courts up to and including the United States Supreme Court as a nominee of ACEC. Mr. Ericksen has been named a Northern Californian “Super Lawyer” for more than ten consecutive years.
He and his wife of 30 years live in the East Bay and have four children. Their family has been active in athletics, Acalanes High School, community theater and music, and various churches.
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Menu
Grilled Tri-tip
Grilled Salmon
Vegetarian Cheese Ravioli
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Cancellation deadline is Friday, March 16, 2018 by 5:00 p.m. to Maria Wihren, accounting@connerlyandassociates.com.
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