- Hill & Barlow, Boston, MA, 1973-2002
- Noble, Wickersham & Heart, Cambridge, MA, 2003-
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Christopher L. Noble
- Partner,
- Noble, Wickersham & Heart, LLP
- 131 Mount Auburn Street
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
- Email: cn@noblewickersham.com
- Phone: (617) 777-4814
- Cell: (617) 777-4814
- Company Phone: (617) 491-9800
- Fax:
Education
- Undergraduate: BA Yale University 1968
- Law School: JD Yale Law School 1973
Career History
Professional Activities
- Member, Massachusetts, and American Bar Associations
- Founding Fellow, Former Board Member and Committee Chair, American College of Construction Lawyers
- Steering Committee, Boston Bar Association Construction Law Committee, 1998-2001
- Steering Committee, Contract Documents Division, ABA Construction Industry Forum, 1995-2000; Chair 2000-2002
- Instructor, Professional Development Courses, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1976-1994
- Visiting Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1989; Guest Lecturer, 2004-2013
- Instructor, Professional Education Systems, Massachusetts Construction Law Program, 1981-2002
- Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Real Estate, 2002-2003
- Guest Lecturer, Roger Williams University School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation, 2004-2012
- Guest Lecturer, Department of Construction Management, Wentworth Institute of Technology (2014, 2016)
- Secretary, Trustee, and Executive Committee Member, Boston Architectural College, 2004-2008
- Honorary Member, Boston Society of Architects
Representative Articles, Publications, Speeches and Seminars
- “Construction Management,” Construction Law, Matthew Bender (1986)
- Co-Author, Massachusetts Construction Law, Professional Education Systems (annual editions) (1981-2002)
- “The Defense of Qualified Privilege in Defamation and Commercial Tort Claims Against Architects,” 1991 Wiley Construction Law Update,John Wiley & Sons, (1991)
- Co-Author, “Massachusetts” Chapter, Fifty State Public Construction Contracting, John Wiley & Sons (1996)
- “Program Management: The Design Professional’s Perspective, The Construction Lawyer, (October, 1996)
- “A Construction Lawyer Looks at Partnering”, Partnering Manual for Design and Construction, McGraw Hill (1996)
- “Massachusetts” Chapter, The Design/Build Process: A Guide to Licensing and Procurement Requirements in the 50 States and Canada, American Bar Association (1997)
- “Friend of the Project: A New Paradigm for Construction Law Services in a `Partnered’ Construction Industry,” The International Construction Law Review (January 1998)
- “Understanding the New AIA Contract Documents,” The Aspen Law Construction Law Handbook, Aspen Law & Business (1999)
- “Interdisciplinary Practice: A Construction Law Perspective,” John Marshall Law Review (2000)
- “The Design/Builder-A/E Contract: A Comparison of Standard Forms,” The Construction Lawyer (2001)
- “Don’t Leave Home Without It: A Strategy for Complying with Interstate Architectural Practice Rules,” Under Construction (2001)
- “The AIA General Conditions in the Digital Age: Does The Square ‘New Technology’ Peg Fit into The Round A201 Hole?”, with Richard Alexander and Steven Stein, Construction Contracts Law Report (2001)
- “Construction Law”, with Heather G. Merrill, in Gould and Joyce, Construction Project Management Professional ed. (2002)
- “Massachusetts License Laws”, in Heisse and Schenck, eds., The Design/Build Deskbook, 3d ed., American Bar Association (2004)
- “The AIA’s New Digital Data Documents,” with Bennet Heart, The Construction Lawyer (2008)
Speeches, Panel Discussions, and Seminars:
- “New Methods and the Architect/Engineer’s Contract,” ABA Public Contracts Section, 1984
- “The New AIA Owner-Architect Agreement.” ABA Construction Industry Forum, 1987
- “New Responsibilities for the Transactional Construction Counsel: Structuring the Owner-Architect Relationship,” ABA Construction Industry Forum, 1994
- “Construction Manager as Contractor: Comments from the Owner’s Point of View on AIA Document A121/CMC,” Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1995
- “Where’s Waldo? The Implications of Design and Construction Integration for 21st Century Dispute Resolution,” American College of Construction Lawyers, 1995
- “Strategies and Techniques for Reducing the Multiplicity of Interests in the Project Delivery Process,” Building Futures Council, 1996
- “Twenty-First Century Construction Law,” Build Boston, 1996
- “E Pluribus Unum: Strategies and Techniques for Reducing the Multiplicity of Interests in the Project Delivery Process”, New England Construction Users Council, 1997
- “Standing Up for AIA Document B141:A (Mostly) Fair Owner-Architect Agreement Form,” Construction Superconference, 1998
- “The Revolutionary Project Alliance Delivery System,” The Construction Superconference, 2000
- “Innovation in Socio-Technical Systems: Legal and Contractual Issues”, Transforming Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, 2004
- “Risk Management and the Liability Labyrinth”, ZweigWhite Conference on the AEC Firm of the Future, 2005
- “Risk Management in the Digital Age”, AIA Large Firm Roundtable Legal Sub-Committee Conference, 2005
- “Professional Practice in the Global Marketplace,” Walter Wagner Forum, American Institute of Architects National Convention, 2006
- “Who Will Control Intellectual Property in the Building Information Model?”, Building (in) the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture, Yale University School of Architecture Symposium, 2006
- “Starting Your Own Design Firm,” Residential Design & Construction Expo (2007, 2008)
- “The Project Alliance Delivery System,” AIA National Convention (2007)
- “Inside Outsourcing,” Build Boston (2007, AIA National Convention (2008)
- “The Business of BIM,” Build Boston (2007)
- “The AIA’s New Digital Data Documents,” ABA Construction Industry Forum (2008)
- “Project Alliances: The Inside Story,” AIA National Convention (2008)
- “A New Fee Collection Tool: The 2011 Massachusetts Design Professionals’ Lien Law,” Boston Society of Architects (2011)
- “Business of Architecture” lecture series, Boston Society of Architects (2013)
- “A 40-Year History of the Forum and Construction Law,” ABA Construction Industry Forum (2016)
Court Admissions
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Community Activities
- Director and Clerk, The Community Builders, Inc., 1982-2013
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