The Construction Litigation Committee strives to bring together litigators who primarily practice construction law. The Committee sponsors programs on various topics at the Annual Meetings of the American Bar Association, the Section of Litigation, and the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry. The Committee has also historically held its own separate programs, including most recently a joint program with the ADR Committee on Handling Complex Construction Disputes Using ADR in November 2005.

At the present time, more than 2,300 members belong to the Committee, one of the fastest growing committees and currently the second largest substantive law committee within the Section of Litigation. In addition to its numerous presentations, the Committee has published three monographs: a fifty state survey on No Damages for Delay, a fifty state survey on the Economic Loss Doctrine, and a fifty state survey on the Statutes of Repose. All three of the monographs are in the process of being updated and supplemented.

Quarterly, the Committee publishes its newsletter, CONTRUCT!, which includes scholarly articles on emerging and significant developments in the construction law field. It also gathers and regularly posts on this website case notes from the different states analyzing recent cases and statutory/regulatory changes coming out of the state and federal systems that have impact on the practice of construction litigation.

The Committee offers its members varied opportunities to participate in the Committee activities ranging from opportunities to simply attend and network at its programs to the ability to substantively participate by writing case notes, articles for CONSTRUCT!, speaking opportunities and leadership roles as active subcommittee members and chairs.

The Summer 2009 edition of the Construct is now available in the newsletter section.

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