Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partner Samuel H. Levine was featured in the May 1 issue of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin regarding his appointment to Secretary of the Illinois State Bar Association Commercial Banking, Collections & Bankruptcy Law Section Council for the 2012-2013 year. Mr. Levine was also named in the most recent issue of [...]

Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partner Justin L. Weisberg gave a presentation at the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry Division 3/Design at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas on Friday, April 27. The program was titled “The Uncharted Road from Design-Bid-Build to P3 and Lean Construction.” Mr. Weisberg was part of a panel discussion regarding [...]

Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partner Samuel H. Levine has been appointed secretary of the Illinois State Bar Association Commercial Banking, Collections & Bankruptcy Law Section Council for the 2012/2013 year.

Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partners Samuel H. Levine and Justin L. Weisberg will be speaking at the ISBA Construction Program on April 16 in Bloomington, Illinois and April 27 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference, titled “The Construction Project from Womb to Tomb (and Then Back to Life),” and will offer six hours of MCLE credit [...]

Chicago Partner Justin L. Weisberg is speaking at the Illinois State Bar Association’s Public Construction Contracting seminar on April 10 in DeKalb, Illinois. The program will cover legal challenges that effect the Illinois public construction contracting arena. Mr. Weisberg is also one of the coordinators for the event. To learn more about the event, click [...]

Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partner Samuel H. Levine will appear on Chicago Access Network Television, Channel 21 in Chicago at 10 p.m. CST on Tuesday, March 6 and 20 as part of a program series discussing legal issues with foreclosures. The half-hour programs, titled “Dealing with Foreclosures,” are presented by “Illinois Law,” a cable production [...]

Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partners Justin L. Weisberg and Samuel H. Levine will be speaking at the ISBA Law Ed Program entitled The Construction Project from Womb to Tomb (Then Back to Life). Mr. Weisberg’s talk, “Payment and Performance Bonds”, and Mr. Levine’s talk, “Enhancement and Priorities between Mortgagees and Lien Claimants”, will be held [...]

Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partner Justin L. Weisberg will be speaking at the Building Information Modeling Education Program on April 20 as part of the Builders Education & Training Foundation’s course series. Mr. Weisberg’s talk, titled “Contract Negotiation and Risk Allocation,” will be given from 7:30am – 5:00pm at the Carpenters Training Center in Elk [...]

Arnstein & Lehr LLP is pleased to announce that four attorneys have been elevated to equity partner and nine associates elevated to partner in the firm’s Chicago, Miami and West Pam Beach offices. The following attorneys have been elected to equity partner: Paul R. Diamond is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group [...]

Chicago Partner Samuel H. Levine presented at the Chicago Bar Association Mechanics Lien and Claims Seminar on Bankruptcy and Claims on December 7. The presentation was before attorneys and judges.

Chicago Partner Justin L. Weisberg will be speaking at the Structures Symposium for the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois in Chicago on Wednesday, November 2. Mr. Weisberg’s talk, titled “Working in a Virtual World – Understanding Bim Requirements”, will be given in the afternoon session. For more information on the symposium, click here.

Chicago Partner Justin Weisberg is a scheduled speaker at the Construction Institute’s 3rd Annual National Young Executive Forum to be held Saturday, September 17, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mr. Weisberg will provide an interactive problem-solving session that will explore major decisions made on widely publicized engineering failures including the Kansas City Hyatt, [...]

Chicago Partners Samuel Levine and Justin Weisberg recently participated in the April 8 Mechanics Liens and Construction Claims seminar conducted by the ISBA’s Special Committee on Construction Law.  Samuel coordinated the CLE seminar and also served as a moderator on the topic “Bankruptcy, Mechanics Liens and Construction Issues.”  Justin spoke on the topic “Perfecting Mechanics Liens [...]

Chicago Partner Justin Weisberg published an article titled “Gaining Virtual Steam: BIM Transforms Design, Construction and Facility Management” in the March issue of the American Bar Association’s Under Construction newsletter. In the article Mr. Weisberg discusses the development of virtual project information tools known as Building Information Modeling (“BIM”). He goes into further detail about [...]

Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partner Justin Weisberg published an article titled “Gaining Virtual Steam: BIM Transforms Design, Construction and Facility Management” in the March issue of the American Bar Association’s Under Construction newsletter. In the article Mr. Weisberg discusses the development of virtual project information tools known as Building Information Modeling (“BIM”). He goes into [...]

Chicago Partners Samuel Levine and Justin Weisberg are scheduled to speak at the Friday, April 8, Illinois State Bar Association’s (ISBA) Mechanics Liens and Construction Claims program at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb.  Mr. Weisberg will speak on “Perfecting Mechanics Liens and Bond Claims on Public Projects” while Mr. Levine will co-present the topic “Bankruptcy, [...]

Chicago Partner Justin Weisberg has been selected to serve as Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee vice-chair for American Society of Civil Engineers during the 2011-2012 fiscal year.  Mr. Weisberg will serve as chair of the committee in the 2012-2013 fiscal year.

On February 1 Chicago Partner David Sugar will present the seminar “Protecting Yourself and Your Association” at Building Group’s new First Tuesdays program. Mr. Sugar’s topics include: board disputes; homeowner disputes; protecting the board and association from litigation; how to respond when the board or association is sued; delinquency payment issues and foreclosures. The Building [...]

Partner Justin Weisberg was acknowledged in the BIM Education Program for the Associated General Contractors of America. The manual is for a seminar on contract negotiation and risk allocation. Mr. Weisberg is thanked for his expertise in the matter, and for his role in the BIM Contract Negotiation and Risk Allocation Advisory Group.

Chicago Partner Samuel Levine will present “Bankruptcy and Claims” at the Mechanics Lien & Construction Claims seminar hosted by the Chicago Bar Association.  Mr. Levine’s  presentation is from 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 8. For registration and more information about the seminar, click here.