Today’s guest post is by fellow Stites attorney Bill Gorton, who acts as national counsel to numerous clients on natural resource, environmental regulatory and land and water resources matters. He has been counsel in the development of over 10 power plants. If you have questions, you can contact Bill by email or phone
I woke up very early this morning so that I could get a jump start on all the work projects that need to get done before the Thanksgiving weekend. As I tiptoed down the hallway, the rumbling little snores of 6 children made me smile. Yep, I am thankful for many things … but especially
I have often wondered whether there is such a thing as too small a dispute. Well, the parties in Earl Faulkner v. Tom Emmett Construction Company (pdf) determined to take their $3,000 construction dispute to the Tennessee Court of Appeals. In the end, the Court gave some good instructions on the "first material breach" rule, which
I recently read a BNA article on commercial arbitration entitled Achieving the Perceived Cost Savings and Expedience of Commercial Arbitration (pdf). In the article, Chicago attorney William O’Neil identifies six essential terms you should include in your arbitration clauses.
While I agree with most of the essential terms, the recommendations really depend on
The News Tribune reported this morning about a local machinist in Tacoma, Washington who was "worried he might be put out of business by an unexpected find on the site of his soon-to-be-built shop." Construction workers were moving dirt and clearing the site when they found a bone sticking out of a chunk of