Construction Law Seminar
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:30 pm
Construction Contracting in Traditional and Alternative Project
Delivery Systems: Finding the Framework That’s Right for the
Owner and the Project
Legal rights/duties of construction entities: contractors,
design services firms, subcontractors and suppliers
Design-bid-build: entering into construction contracts and
agreements in the traditional construction process
Design-build: entering into contracts and agreements
Improving the Project Outcome with Accurate and Effective
Construction Contracting
Forming contracts
Understanding contract terminology and obligations
Subcontract formation and administration
Performance and payment issues
Breach of contract and default
Protecting the Owner and the Project: Insurance and Bonding
Issues in Construction
Types of construction bonds
• Performance
• Payment
• Alternatives to bonds
Types of insurance
• Commercial general liability insurance
• Builder’s risk insurance
• Errors and omissions insurance
• Additional/alternative insurance
Claims and notice issues
Addressing Changed Conditions During the Construction Process
Making changes to the contract and contracted work
• The contract change clause
• Types of changes: ordered and constructive changes
• Requirements for making changes
• Liability issues
Preventing and Resolving Disputes During the Construction
Process
Solving problems during the construction process
• Site conditions
• Delays
• Disruption
• Acceleration
• Accidents
Credits
Architects
6.5 HSW PDHs
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.5 HSW PDHs
Interior Designers
6.5 HSW PDHs
Contractors
Non-Mandatory CE
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 HSW PDHs to Tennessee architects, engineers, and interior designers. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Tennessee.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885).
Architects and engineers seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar, in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
This seminar offers a non-mandatory continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. HalfMoon Education is not seeking contractor continuing education approval in any state.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Gregory Cashion
Smith Cashion & Orr, PLCFounding partner of Smith Cashion & Orr, PLCMr. Cashion devotes his practice to construction law and litigation. He earned a BS degree in Civil Engineering, magna cum laude, from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (1979). Mr. Cashion worked as a co-op engineer for CFW Construction Company, Inc., and after graduating, he worked as a project manager for Charles Blalock & Sons, Inc., and as a structural engineer for United Engineers & Contractors at TVA’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. Mr. Cashion is a registered professional engineer in Tennessee. In 1983, Mr. Cashion earned his JD degree from the University of Tennessee School of Law and began practicing law with a Nashville law firm until co-founding Smith Cashion & Orr, PLC in 1998. He is an adjunct professor for Vanderbilt University, College of Engineering where he teaches construction law and contracts in a graduate program. He has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) credential. Mr. Cashion is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers. He is a certified mediator and arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Cashion was a member of the Governing Committee of the ABA, Forum on the Construction Industry (2008-2011). He is amember of the Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel, for which he served on the Executive Committee for six years, and as president in 2009. Mr. Cashion has co-authored several publications.
Vic L. Mcconnell
Vic L. McConnell is a Partner with Smith Cashion & Orr, PLC in Nashville, TN. Mr. McConnell represents owners, developers, contractors, and design professionals and concentrates his practice in the areas of construction litigation and design professional defense. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Auburn University and a Master of Science degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Mr. McConnell also received a Master of Science degree in Environmental Management from Samford University and a J.D. degree from Samford’s Cumberland School of Law. Prior to obtaining his law degree, Mr. McConnell worked in the construction industry as a design engineer/project manager with several engineering-consulting firms in the southeast. Mr. McConnell is a registered professional engineer and a LEED® AP. Furthermore, he is a member of the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers Nashville Chapter, is a Board Member of AGC of Tennessee, and has served as board member and president of the Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel. Mr. McConnell has co-authored several publications related to construction law including the Tennessee chapter of State-by-State Guide to Construction Contracts and Claims (Aspen Publishers). Mr. McConnell also teaches Construction Law and Contracts as an adjunct professor for Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering.