| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 01.15.05 |
Limitation of Liability 2nd Edition Now Available The new version of ASFE’s highly popular “LoL guide” – Limitation of Liability: A Handbook for Design and Environmental Professionals, Second Edition – has been published. Much of the material is new, although perhaps the most significant change... |
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| 02.15.05 |
10 Things You Need to Know Eighty percent of a consulting firm’s business is likely to come from 20% of its clients. Keeping those clients for life (i.e., during the full course of one’s professional career) is vital. So says ASFE/The Best People on Earth, a not-for-profit trade... |
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| 06.01.05 |
Prevent Conflict of Interest. Try These CoMET Ideas. Firms providing construction materials engineering and testing (CoMET) services often have to deal with a serious conflict of interest. It arises when the owner requires the contractor to retain the CoMET services provider. This is like requiring a... |
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| 01.16.06 |
Model Committee Memo Can Help Firms Manage the Risks of Dealing with Client-Representative Committee Committees – especially those established by nonprofit organizations – are among the most risk-prone client representatives design professionals work with. ASFE case histories chronicle these risks and, through hindsight, identify risk management... |
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| 05.03.06 |
ASFE Publishes Bibliography of Economic Loss Doctrine Cases The economic loss doctrine is an important protection for design professionals, who therefore need to know in which states it is and is not applied, and to what extent. The economic loss doctrine bars use of tort claims (e.g., professional negligence... |
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| 04.26.07 |
Limitation of Liability and Economic Loss Doctrine Bibliographies Updated New editions of ASFE's limitation of liability (LoL) and economic loss doctrine (ELD) bibliographies are now on-line, available to members at www.asfe.org. These references are essential for your attorneys, and for you as well. Your awareness of ELD... |
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| 05.23.07 |
Newest ASFE Practice Alert Focuses on Assembling Rapid-Response Project Intervention Teams (PITs) “Dealing with molehills is far easier than dealing with mountains. The trick, of course, is identifying molehills before they have a chance to grow.” Thus begins ASFE Practice Alert 36/Preparing for Rapid Response: Assembling a Project Intervention... |
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| 05.23.07 |
Your Lawyer Can Get in Free Is your firm represented by an attorney who is not an Associate Member of ASFE? If so, here’s an important new deal your retained counsel should be aware of: ASFE now permits retained counsel to participate in the Advocates Assembly free of charge... |
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| 08.07.07 |
New Model Contract for CoMET Services Developed By ASFE/The Best People On Earth and Terra Insurance A new model contract for use by construction materials engineering and testing (CoMET) services firms and their clients is now available from ASFE/The Best People on Earth. Developed jointly by ASFE and Terra Insurance Company,... |
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| 10.12.07 |
All-Appropriate Inquiries and Environmental Site Assessments: A Message to Clients All-Appropriate Inquiries and Environmental Site Assessments: A Message to Clients is the title of a new ASFE “message” flyer enclosed with this issue of NewsLog. Oriented toward client representatives and designed for distribution by Member Firms... |
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