In January, San Francisco, California, opens its golden gate to welcome the Forum back for its 2010 Mid-Winter Meeting. Like San Francisco itself, this meeting is a great mix of the new and the old.The Forum returns to the historic Westin St. Francis Hotel and reunites with our friends at the Fidelity & Surety Law Committee. The Forum also welcomes a new co-sponsor, the ABA Section of Public Contract Law. Together, we've assembled a timely program in the hottest area in the U.S. construction market and perhaps the most challenging area in U.S. construction law: "Government Construction Contracting."

The program will provide instruction by many of the country's leading government contracting and construction law experts in the most common and most cutting edge issues facing participants in projects owned or funded by federal, state or local governments. The topics will include hot issues in contractor claims against the federal government; tricky issues on publicly-funded, privately-owned projects; government claims for defects discovered after project acceptance; mandatory disclosures, compliance programs, and false claims; the legal issues surrounding federal and state governments' use of design-build; and legal ethics issues unique to advising government construction contractors.

This full-day program will include six plenary sessions, all with the goals of providing counsel for government owners, contractors, designers, sureties and other project participants with must-have information to assist their respective clients, whether they are new to government construction or just trying to keep up with the latest legal and market developments.




Early Bird Registration: Please Register... by January 15, 2010 to receive the discounted conference rate. If you wish to have your name appear on the pre-registration list distributed at the program, we must receive your registration no later than this date.