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Howard W. Ashcraft

Hanson, Bridgett, LLP
26th Floor  
425 Market Street
San Francisco  CA 94105
Email Address:  hashcraft@hansonbridgett.com
Direct Phone: (415) 995-5073
Company Phone: (415) 777-3200

Education

Undergraduate:  Stanford University (1974), B.A. Human Biology
Graduate:  ,

 Environmental Law Quarterly

Career History

 

Professional Activities

  • Founding Board Member, Center for Innovation in the Design and Construction Industry
  • Honorary Member, American Arbitration Association, California Council
  • Steering Committee Member, AIACC IPD Task Force
  • Procure Taskgroup Chair, National Building Information Modeling Standard
  • Former Governing Committee Member, American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry
  • Legal Counsel Forum, American Consulting Engineers Council

Representative Articles, Publications, Speeches and Seminars

  • Enforceability of Limitation of Liability Clauses, American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry, The Construction Lawyer, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1994)
  • New Paradigms for Design Professionals: New Issues for Construction Lawyers, Construction Law & Business, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2001)
  • CERCLA "Arranger" Liability-Emerging Risk for Environmental Consultants, American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry, The Construction Lawyers, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1994)
  • Limitation of Liability - The View After Markborough, American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry, The Construction Lawyer, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1991)
  • CERCLA "Arranger" Liability, ProNet, ProNet Practice Notes, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1994)
  • Volt V. Board of Trustees: Construction Arbitration and the Making of a Federal Case, American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry, The Construction Lawyer Vol. 8, No. 3 (1988)
  • Consultant Liability, Chapter 6 of Site Auditing: Environmental Assessment of Property, Specialty Technical Publishers
  • The Expert Witness and Consultant, Chapter 9, Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook, McGraw-Hill (2000)
  • Avoiding and Managing Risk of Differing Site Conditions, Chapter in Differing Site Condition Claims, Wiley (1992)
  • Allocating Construction Risks: Limitation of Liability, Indemnity, and Additional Insures Clauses, Structural Engineers Association of California, SEAOC Proceedings (1989)
  • Seismic Safety Analyses-Avoiding Liability Aftershocks, Structural Engineers Association of California, SEAOC Proceedings (1991)

Speeches, Panel Discussions, and Seminars:

  • Non-Medical Professional Liability, California State Bar (1985)
  • Major Construction Risks, CEMC (1986)
  • Managing Construction Claims, Construction Superconference (1987 and 1988)
  • Comparing A-201 1976 to 1987, American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry (1987)
  • Delay and Impact Claims, American Institute of Architects (1987)
  • The New A-201, American Institute of Architects (1987)
  • No Damage for Delay Clauses-Recent Developments, Legislative Responses, American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry (1988)
  • Current Legal Issues in Architectural Practice, Society of Architectural Administrators/American Institute of Architects (1988)
  • The Architect as Developer, American Institute of Architects (1989)
  • Site Assessment Liability, American Society of Civil Engineers (1990)
  • Legal Issues in the Practice of Landscape Architecture, University of California Extension (1990/1991)
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution, CEMC (1991)
  • Managing Expert Witness, Construction Superconference (1990)
  • Construction Management Licensing, American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry (1992)
  • Drafting, Managing and Enforcing Limitation of Liability Clauses, American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry (1992)
  • Expert Witness, California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors (1992)
  • Recent Developments on Hazardous Waste Remediation, Hazardous Waste Management Academy (1993)
  • Alternative Project Delivery Systems, ASFE/Engineering Firms Practicing in the Geosciences (1993)
  • Limitation of Liability, Hazardous Waste Action Coalition (1993)
  • Standard of Care in Professional Liability Actions, Hazardous Waste Action Coalition (1993)
  • Alternative Project Delivery/Environmental Remediation Liability, California Geotechnical Engineers Association (1994)
  • Environmental Claims, DPIC Companies (1994)
  • Environmental Considerations of Consulting Engineers, Hazardous Waste Action Coalition-ASFE/Engineering Firms Practicing in the Geosciences (1994)

Court Admissions

  • United States Supreme Court
  • State of California
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Cir.
  • U.S. District Court Northern California
  • U.S. District Court Eastern California
  • State of Nevada
  • U.S. District Court Nevada

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