Randy Sullivan | Patton Sullivan Brodehl Not every apparent prescriptive right vests. At first glance, a decades long encroachment might appear to be a shoo-in as an easement by prescription. However, encroaching structures built without permits or approvals are at risk of being ordered removed where a local municipality declares the act a public nuisance.… Continue reading No Permits, No Easement: Why Unlawful Encroachments May Not Vest [Sullivan’s Take]
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Is Your Private Project Ready For California’s New Change Order Law?
Benjamin J. Morris | Foley & Lardner The Clock is Ticking: SB 440 Takes Effect January 1, 2026 The new year brings a mandatory shakeup to California’s private construction industry. Effective January 1, 2026, Senate Bill 440 — the Private Works Change Order Fair Payment Act (“SB 440”) — will govern how contractors and owners… Continue reading Is Your Private Project Ready For California’s New Change Order Law?
Emerging Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Construction
Kenneth Stallard and Nima Youchidje | Carr Maloney Just as in most other sectors of business, it is unquestionable that Artificial Intelligence is transforming the construction industry. AI is affecting how construction workflows are prepared, how real-time decisions are made, and how on-site work is performed. Generative AI: Large language models (LLM’s) are trained with… Continue reading Emerging Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Construction
AI in Construction: What Contractors and Legal Teams Should Know
Richard McDonald, Chiara Portner and Jay Ross | Lathrop GPM Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping many industries, including the construction industry – from how projects are designed and built to how job sites are managed during the course of work. As contractors embrace AI tools and legal teams draft the contracts that govern them, it’s… Continue reading AI in Construction: What Contractors and Legal Teams Should Know
How AI Could Revolutionize the Construction Industry
Matthew H. Mues | Davis Wright Tremaine Artificial intelligence (AI) and its actual and potential applications are a hot topic, including use in construction. One court has defined AI “as any technology that uses machine learning, natural language processing, or any other computational mechanism to simulate human intelligence, including document generation, evidence creation or analysis,… Continue reading How AI Could Revolutionize the Construction Industry