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Thursday, March 4

8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome and Introduction
 Overview of Day One
 
Edward B. Lozowicki, Esq., Program Co-Chair  
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, San Francisco

Pamela Chin, Program Co-Chair 
Vice-President & Associate General Counsel
Parsons, Pasadena

9:15 Show Me the Money
The Federal Stimulus Funding Process 

William Guerin, Assistant Commissioner 
National Recovery Program Management Office
U.S. General Services Administration

10:00 Morning Break

10:15 Strings Attached to Stimulus Funding -- Part I
The Buy American Act and Expanded Government Audits

David Gallacher, Esq.   
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Washington D.C.

Mr. Michael Rizzo 
McKenna Long & Aldridge, Los Angeles

11:15 Keynote Presentation 
The Impact of Stimulus Funding and Public-Private Partnership Legislation 

Randell (“Randy”) H. Iwasaki, Director  
California Department of Transportation, Sacramento

12:00 Q&A Panel
 Members of the Faculty

12:15 Lunch Break

1:30 Federal, State and Local Claims Procedures in the Era of Stimulus Funding

Robert L. Leslie, Esq.  
McInerney & Dillon, San Francisco

2:15 Design-Build Update 
New Projects and New Legislation

John Yacovelle, Esq.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, San Francisco

Michael Polentz, Esq.
Manat Phelps Phillips, Palo Alto

3:15 Afternoon Break

3:30 Green Construction Update
 Hot Topics for Green Building in the Era of Stimulus Funding

Dee A. Ware, Esq. 
Cooper, White & Cooper, Walnut Creek

4:15 Sex, Drugs and Construction ADR
 What works and what doesn’t work in construction ADR in the real world?

Michael J. Bayard, Esq.  
Construction ADR Services, Los Angeles

5:00 Adjourn

Friday, March 5

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome Back
 Overview of Day Two

Edward B. Lozowicki, Esq., Program Co-Chair

Pamela Chin, Program Co-Chair

9:15 Strings Attached to Federal Stimulus Funding – Part II
Flow Down of Stimulus Requirements to Local Agencies and Contractors
 
Mr. Tom Abbott, Esq.  
McKenna Long & Aldridge, Los Angeles 

Neil O’Donnell  
Rogers Joseph O’Donnell, San Francisco 

10:15 Morning Break

10:45 Government Funding and Pubic Private Partnerships
Combining Public and Private Funding for Infrastructure Projects

Matt Girard, Vice-President  
Flatiron Construction Corporation

11:15 Impact of Design Build on the Spearin Doctrine
 "Hybrid" Contracts and the Implied Warranty of Specification Suitability

Edward B. Lozowicki, Esq., Program Co-Chair   

12:00 Lunch Break

1:15 Ethics
False Claims Act Issues and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Charles M. Sink, Esq.  
Farella Braun + Martel, San Francisco

2:15 Best Practices for Proving Delay Claims
 Update in the Era of Stimulus Funding

Greg McKinnon, CPA, CMA 
Hemming Morse, San Francisco

3:00 Afternoon Break

3:15 Prevailing Wage Requirements
The Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Debora Wilder, President  
Contractor Compliance and Monitoring, San Mateo
 
4:15 Update on Delay Claims
State Agency Claims under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Gregory J. Dukellis, Esq.  
Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald, Irvine

5:00 Evaluations and Adjourn

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