For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Musings, we are happy to get appellate lawyer, Jay O’Keeffe ‘s perspective on construction cases for a second time. Jay (@ jayokeeffe ) practices business and appellate litigation with Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore in Roanoke, VA. As I remembered about 12 minutes after signing on, I did a guest post a while back that covered every single thing I know about construction law. Construction law often involves contracts. He can reached at 509-983-9459 or at his blog, De Novo. That was foolish. It probably took almost 400 words. MORE >>

Business Development in construction is successful when approached as a long term strategy. With all the social networks exploding many have suggested that LinkedIn is all you need for Business to Business. What I’ve found is that business development requires networking in person and that many conversations can begin or be nurtured on-line in social media. I’ve added extensions to browsers, applications to social networking sites and plugins to email to help the business nurturing process. Construction specific if you use the filter. MORE >>

LinkedIn has become the place for networking with the construction, architecture and engineering industries. profiles world wide in the construction industry as of April 18, 2012 – there are more people to connect with everyday than we can ever approach for business development opportunities. The US has over 1,000,000 LinkedIn profiles in the construction industry and over 284,000 are construction owners. Remember you are looking for business opportunities. Yes, that’s still how it’s done in construction. Business Development. MORE >>

Todd is a partner in the Northern Virginia office of construction law firm Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald.  Todd is also Immediate Past Chair of the Virginia State Bar Construction Law and Public Contracts Section. In two weeks the Virginia State Bar’s Construction Law and Public Contract Section, in coordination with Virginia CLE, will host its 32 nd Annual Seminar at the Boar’s Head Inn in Charlottesville.  The program begins with an ethics update by Thomas Spahn and concludes with the annual recent developments in construction and public contracts law by Tom Wolf.  MORE >>

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