PRINCETON, NJ, September 17, 2008  –  Suzanne McSorley, Esq., a Shareholder in Stevens & Lee’s Litigation Department, moderated and served on a panel of construction industry professionals at the American Bar Association Forum on Construction held in Chicago, September 11-12, 2008.

The panel participants discussed the ConsensusDOCS 300 contract for collaborative project delivery before an audience of 500 construction lawyers and industry professionals. The ConsensusDOCS 300 is a new approach to project delivery based on a tri-party agreement signed by the owner, designer and builder. The presenters explained how the collaborative approach works on decision making, cost, risk sharing and allocation, incentives and dispute resolution, and presented data regarding the surprising improvement in performance of projects using a collaborative approach in both the delivery of projects on time and within or below budget.

Ms. McSorley concentrates her practice in commercial litigation and dispute resolution, counseling clients in the construction, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, insurance and healthcare industries. She has represented real estate developers, homeowners, research universities, and pharmaceutical manufacturers in connection with construction delay and defect claims. Ms. McSorley also devotes a substantial part of her practice to representing owners in negotiating and drafting agreements relating to construction projects.

Ms. McSorley holds a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and an A.B., cum laude, from Princeton University. In 2007, she was selected as a “Legend of Alternative Dispute Resolution” by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education for her contributions to advance the cause of mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution in New Jersey and in 2005 she was honored by the New Jersey State Bar Association as the “ADR Practitioner of the Year.”


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