Bennett D. Greenberg, Esq., DBIA

Mr. Greenberg is copresenting Workshop W7, "A Risk Manager's Guide to Federal Contracting," on Wednesday afternoon. He is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, specializing in design and construction law in both public and private sectors. His work includes negotiating and drafting contracts, counseling clients on procurement-related issues, contract administration, risk management, and dispute avoidance, preparing claim documentation in support of, and defense of equitable adjustments to contracts, and mediating, litigating, and arbitrating large complex, multiparty construction disputes.

Mr. Greenberg represents design professionals, design-builders, contractors, and public sector owners. He has advised and educated clients on alternative project delivery systems and has extensive experience with design-build contracting, including preparing and responding to requests for proposals, negotiating and drafting design-build contracts structuring the relationships between the design-build participants, counseling clients on administering design-build contracts, and resolving design-build disputes.

Mr. Greenberg is active in the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) and presently serves as Special Legal Advisor to the DBIA's Board of Directors. Mr. Greenberg took the lead in drafting DBIA's model contracts documents and was the recipient of the 1998 DBIA Leadership Award for his work on the new model form documents. He presently chairs the DBIA committee that is revising the DBIA contract documents. Mr. Greenberg has authored numerous construction law articles, lectures throughout the country on construction law topics, and has structured training seminars for clients on risk management and other construction-related topics. He has also served as an arbitrator in numerous AAA cases. Mr. Greenberg has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of the nation's outstanding construction attorneys.