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several types of issues come up in
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construction litigation sometimes
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they’re design issues
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there are things that the architects or
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engineers have designed that simply
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can’t be built in the field
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there are issues about changes about
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bonding
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about liens about claims for payment
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about contract terms one of the big
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issues
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in contract cases are the terms the
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construction contract
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i try to get clients to always let me
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review the construction contracts
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before they sign them because many of
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them are
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terribly onerous and one-sided and if
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you’re on the wrong side of them
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you’re starting six feet under and it’s
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really hard to dig out