H. James Wulfsberg

Mr. Wulfsberg is presenting Workshop M2, "Identifying and Managing Contract Risks," on Monday. He is the firm's senior principal and a nationally recognized expert in construction law. He has over 30 years' experience in all phases of the construction process, including design, bid build, design build, engineering procurement construction contracting, construction management, and public works projects. He has assisted EPC contractors, project owners, contractors, architects and engineers, construction managers, and developers in finding procurement and evaluation methodologies, developing procurement documents, negotiating and drafting contracts, negotiating and administering contract claims, and developing claims avoidance and dispute resolution strategies and procedures.

Mr. Wulfsberg has represented clients in mediation, arbitration, and litigation. He has represented EPC contractors, public and private owners, and architects and engineers in a variety of major private, public works, and power process projects throughout the United States, Latin America, and the Middle East.

He earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law. His professional activities include ABA Fidelity and Surety Law Committee; ABA Forum Committee on the Construction Industry; International Bar Association; ABA Section of Public Contract Law; ABA Section of Tort & Insurance Practice; ABA Construction Litigation Committee; American College of Construction Lawyers; Alameda County Bar Association; San Francisco City and County Bar Association; and Certified Arbitrator, California State Construction Contract Arbitration Committee.

His court admissions include District Court (N.D., S.D., E.D., and C.D. Cal.); Court of Appeals (9th Cir.); the United States District Court of Nevada; Wayne County Michigan Circuit Court; the United States District Court of Missouri; and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Mr. Wulfsberg has written extensively as author, coauthor, and contributing author of articles, papers, and publications, his work appearing in Architectural Record and John Wiley & Sons, Practising Law Institute, American Bar Association, Prentice Hall Law& Business, and The Environmental Insurance Law Institute publications, among others. He has also presented various lectures and seminars for the American Bar Association, The Practising Law Institute, the New York University Continuing Education Program on Real Estate Law, Advanced Management Research, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Suemik Company, Ltd., Prentice Hall Law & Business, and Wagner-Hohns-Inglis, Inc.

Mr. Wulfsberg has also engaged in construction claims management consultation for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the University of Texas System, the Washington Public Power Supply System and the National Association of Housing Authorities, and he has served on various panels for the American Bar Association and the California Continuing Education of the Bar.