Construction Risk Management

ConstructionRisk, LLC – Contract Review Specialists

The personnel of ConstructionRisk, LLC have many years of experience as construction lawyers. Through the firm of ConstructionRisk, LLC, however, these attorneys provide services to our clients as “Consultants” rather than as attorneys. This enables us to set our fees significantly less than law firms typically charge for similar services, and permits us to review contracts for our clients in all states – with our reviews efficiently focused on risk allocation and insurability issues.

Although we are a small firm, we believe we probably review more contracts on an annual basis than most firms in America. Our personnel include: Kent Holland, J.D., Bill Chambers, J.D., Joanne Dekker, J.D, Julia Holland, Gail Kelley, P.E. and J.D, Tim Mains, J.D., Gary Prather, P.E, and Christine Hauswirth, J.D.

We review, redline and help negotiate for our clients several thousand contracts and subcontracts per year. These include design professional contracts, design-build contracts, and construction contracts. The size of the projects we work on ranges from two thousand dollars to over $12 billion. Our clients include insurance carriers and insurance brokers who retain us to review the contracts of their insured design professionals. We are also retained directly by design professionals and design-builders to review their contracts. Learn more about our practice and our personnel.

Construction Law and Risk Management Resource Center

This website by J. Kent Holland, principal of ConstructionRisk, LLC, is published as a free construction risk management resource. The top menu bar includes drop down menus with numerous articles, papers, and continuing education materials. The sidebar provides a Search box to research legal and risk management topics that have been discussed in our ConstructionRisk.com Report since 1999. The Topics covered include professional liability, indemnification clauses, duty to defend, standard of care, warranties, construction defects, site safety, payment provisions, design-build, construction management (CM) contracts, litigation lessons learned, and much more.

Design Professional Contracts: 1 Minute Construction Risk Management Video Series

Kent Holland created this series of short videos to provide risk management and contract drafting tips for design professional contracts. Each video is one to two minutes in length. At the conclusion of each video, the next one will start automatically. Or you can jump to a different clause of your choice.

ConstructionRisk Report December 2025

Accounting for Tariffs in Construction Contract

Dec 16, 2025

Written by Peter K. Buckley, Esq. Smith Currie Oles Fort Lauderdale Phone: 954.769.5326 Email: pkbuckley@smithcurrie.com pkbuckley@smithcurrie.com President Donald Trump has implemented his “America First” trade policy throughout 2025 by implementing a sweeping set of tariffs aimed at reducing U.S. reliance on foreign goods. The tariffs, which have fluctuated since January, have included threats...

Homeowner’s judgment against Contractor Reversed because it failed to prove amount of its damages as of the date of the breach of contract

Dec 16, 2025

A homeowner filed suit against the contractor that constructed its home and was awarded damages by a trial court of $425,000. That judgment was reversed on appeal with the court holding that no testimony was presented by homeowner’s expert as to the amount of the damages of date of the breach but the expert only presented evidence of what the homeowner’s damages were as of the trail date which...

Waiver of Consequential Damages Contract Clause Didn’t Protect Designer Against Lawsuit for Costs of Repairing Structural Design Defects

Dec 16, 2025

When a property owner brought a breach-of-contract action against the architectural firm it hired to serve as architect of record for a project involving design and construction of six-story hospital, it sought to recover costs of repairing multiple structural design defects. The Architect moved for summary judgment, asserting that the waiver of consequential damages clause in the contract...