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Document Crunch’s AI

Construction Attorneys Get an AI Assist in Document Crunch

Jeff Yoders
Jeff Yoders
April 9, 2024
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Artificial intelligence is often touted as a gamechanger for construction processes, and Document Crunch, a company co-founded by a longtime construction attorney, is already changing up one key area: construction contracts.


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Court Rules Energy Firm Enel Must Deconstruct 150MW Oklahoma Wind Farm

Deconstructing the facility could cost $300 million, company estimates
Daniel Tyson
Daniel Tyson
January 15, 2024
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The Osage Nation wants the complete removal of the wind farm, power lines and infrastructure, which could cost the energy company upwards of $300 million.


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Ontario Project Owners Face New Safety Liability, Canada High Court Says

David Godkin
December 13, 2023
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Traditional contractor-owner relationships “are being rocked” by decision in long-running case related to death of pedestrian struck by road grader on municipal project, says industry group.



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Maine Court Upholds Leases for Paused $1B Hydropower Line

Johanna Knapschaefer
Johanna Knapschaefer
December 8, 2022
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Referendum halting $1-billion, 145-mile transmission line to connect Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts’ power grid did not nullify state land leases in its corridor, court said.
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Ariz. Contractor Faces Big Fines Over Alleged Worker Pay Infractions

Jim Parsons
June 7, 2022
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A federal judge has ordered a plastering and stucco firm to rectify longstanding recordkeeping violations or face weekly coercive fines of up to $10,000.


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Wisconsin Concrete Contractor Illegally Received $260M Using Federal DBE Program Front

Sonag Ready Mix of Milwaukee fraudulently used a front company to net federal DBE contracts
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Annemarie Mannion
October 7, 2020
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Owners of Sonag Ready Mix of Milwaukee have been convicted or pled guilty to fraudulently reaping more than $260 million in government contracts intended to benefit minority and veteran-owned businesses.


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Embattled SNC-Lavalin Files Ethics Appeal, Realigns Structure

Debra K. Rubin
Debra K. Rubin
April 10, 2019
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Claiming officials did not have full details of its defense, Montreal design-build giant repushes to settle criminal bribe case; firm also gains $2.43 billion from sale of toll road stake

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Maryland $5B Rail Job Paused by Court Appeal

June 7, 2017
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Purple Line light-rail building team to suspend new contract execution and nonessential purchases.
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Md. Contractor Gets Prison Term in Theft of Union Funds

CEO involved in stealing more than $1.7 million from Laborers' local, DOJ says
Tom Ichniowski
Tom Ichniowski
February 27, 2017
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Two executives of contracting firm and a former union official sentenced.


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Drones Taking Flight Despite Uncertain Regs

Laura E. Vlieg
November 2, 2015
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For decades now, the word “drones” has evoked a militaristic image of pilotless aircraft, but the technology of unmanned flight has evolved and adapted to meet civilian needs.


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