In their Construction Law column, Melissa Billig and Brandon Reiner discuss five pitfalls to avoid when using standardized industry form agreements with architects and contractors. Lawyers are often ...

Roughly every 10 years, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) updates its construction contract documents, which are among the most widely used and accepted forms in the construction industry, to ...

While other industry forms are now competing, the AIA Contract Documents remain the most used contract and construction-administration forms in the construction industry. In order to keep pace with ...

Washington, D.C. – March 22, 2011 - The American Institute of Architects (AIA) today announced that it has added 13 documents to AIA Documents-on-Demand™, bringing the total number of documents ...

While it’s impossible to draft a contract with a provision to deal with every problem that might arise as a complex integration project moves forward (that is, at least one that could be carried ...

To keep up with industry trends and important court decisions, every 10 years the AIA core set of contracts are reviewed and updated. The newly revised set of AIA contracts and forms were released ...

When you make a claim under a commercial insurance policy, the first thing many commercial insurers do is to hire a law firm to determine if they can back out of paying your claim. No kidding. They’ll ...