z ASPE Orange County Chapter June ‘Virtual Meeting’

Construction Costs Impacts Post COVID - Cost Escalation and Delay" by Michael Baker



Wednesday, 06/9/2021 @ 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST



Please join us next Wednesday, June 9th @ 4:30 PM with guest speaker Michael Baker of Snell & Wilmer. Michael will speak about the following:

Overview of Current State of Industry
What Contracts Address and Do Not Address

Responsibility for Escalation Costs

Responsibility for Materials Delays

Can COVID be a Valid Excuse

Options to Escape the Impact

Potential Strategies to Deal with Issues

With more than 25 years of experience dedicated to the area of construction law, Mike Baker focuses his practice on the representation of design professionals, engineers, general contractors and public and private owners. His experience includes providing representation for business and contractual matters as well as disputes before arbitration panels, mediators and trial courts. He has also acted in the capacity of mediator, arbitrator, and served on project dispute resolution boards on selected building programs and projects.

Mike's transactional experience in both construction and design-related matters includes drafting contracts related to project delivery methods as well as drafting building program management agreements and construction management agreements for building programs ranging from $200 million to over $1 billion on behalf of contractors, design teams and owners. His experience as a trial lawyer is shown by having brought 20 cases to trial for decision or verdict, including venues in 11 different counties in the State of California and trials in multiple federal circuit court districts in California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Additionally, Mike has arbitrated numerous cases in private arbitration on behalf of contractors, owners, engineers, architects, construction managers involving building and civil works.