How We Train Our time-tested, dynamic workshop environment keeps your team more engaged, which provides an enjoyable experience. Our minds are way more open to learning when we are enjoying the process! Current industry topics are integrated with established law to provide a deeper understanding of contract terms and pro-active contract management. We provide training three ways: (1) Workshops Online - These are periodic live webinars designed to tackle the unique issues subcontractors face. (2) Workshops On Site - These provide convenience and privacy to your team in a venue that allows optimal understanding for all participants. This also encourages open dialog to target the specific information your team needs most. Select from a wide variety of topics so that your workshop can be tailored to meet your team's specific needs. (3) Subcontractor Summits - These are full-day workshops open to any attendees who register. Workshops Online WORKSHOPS online are designed to resolve the unique issues faced by contractors and focus on topics such as understanding and editing subcontracts, tackling claims procedures, and performing work. Unique to our Workshops, we also provide actionable strategies for you to implement what you've learned, including how to become an effective communicator and negotiator. Each Workshop begins with an energetic classroom session with live Q and A, and many include specific hands-on challenges such as redlining subcontract terms or our entertaining “project gone wrong” hypothetical case studies where you put your newfound skills to the test. Who Should Attend? Company Owners and Management Project Managers and Project Engineers Risk Managers Contract Administrators Superintendents Why Train? Increase Profits: Projects are bid with tight margins to ensure success of an award. But, those thin margins are soon eaten up by avoidable mistakes that often result from simply being ignorant as to your contractual obligations and how to work the system to your advantage. Focused training by a professional increases your team's ability to properly and confidently manage the contract and assert your rights! Talent Retention and Productivity: According to Indeed.com: "Implementing training programs in the workplace will help employees feel like the company is invested in them. By continuing to teach your employees new skills and abilities, they will not just become better workers, they will feel like more productive members of the organization. This will improve their morale as well as their workplace capabilities." Our Most Popular On Site Workshops Understanding and Negotiating Contract Terms Learn More The Devil is in the Details - Managing Project Documentation Learn More Changes and Claims - Do it Right or Lose Your Rights Learn More Articles Start Now, Contract Later: Using LOIs and MOUs Without Getting Burned Pam Scholefield a few seconds ago 4 min read Will Your Work Ethic Help You or Haunt You? Pam Scholefield Sep 19 2 min read Secrets to Slaying the Dispute Dragon Pam Scholefield Aug 19 3 min read Playing the Game on Two Fields – Bond Claims for State vs. Federal Projects Pam Scholefield Jul 29 3 min read Is the GC Hiding the Ball on Owner Payments? Pam Scholefield Jul 8 4 min read Why Wait? Resolve Extra Work Payments Now! Pam Scholefield Jun 23 4 min read

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The 2024 San Diego Subcontractor Summit was a rousing success! Pam Scholefield - "Negotiation Workshop" Brittany Russell -"Mindful Negotiation" Oliver Craig -"Evaluating Bonded Work" Pam Scholefield’s high energy style kept everyone engaged and focused on the important stuff for negotiating subcontract terms, contract management, and claims drafting. Brittany Russell with Mindful Synergy Solutions provided an insightful session on mindfulness during negotiations, which was very well received. Oliver Craig with Cavignac offered useful information on bonds and fielded questions as they relate to subcontractors. We are excited that the Subcontractor Summit was met with such positive feedback. Please Send Me More Information on upcoming Summits First Name Last Name Email Message Send Now Thanks for submitting!

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Popular On Site Workshops Popular Workshops On Site Training: Provides convenience and privacy to your team in a venue that allows optimal understanding for all participants. This also encourages open dialog to target the specific information your team needs most. Tailored Topics: Select from a wide variety of standard topics that can be tailored to meet your specific needs. Current industry topics are integrated with established law to provide a deeper understanding of contract terms and pro-active contract management. Workshop Sessions: Our time-tested workshop environment keeps your team more engaged, which provides an enjoyable experience. Our minds are way more open to learning when we are enjoying the process! Back to Home Understanding and Negotiating Contract Terms This workshop covers the contract terms that pose the most risk and that often provide fertile ground for disputes. Attendees will learn ways to edit and negotiate such terms to level the playing field. This workshop explores terms such as: pay-if-paid/pay-when-paid; retention; integration clauses; incorporation of the prime contract; termination for cause and convenience; indemnity and liability; liquidated damages; notice provisions; no-damage-for-delay clauses; force majeure, and sleeper clauses such venue and choice of law. The workshop includes practical and entertaining exercises such as the "timed" contract term scavenger hunt and a mock negotiation of contract terms. Back to Home The Devil is in the Details - Managing Project Documentation The devil is truly in the details as this workshop works through key contract terms while emphasizing the importance of properly organized and detailed paperwork by exploring the following topics: "Flow charting" techniques to keep track of deadlines; Providing notices; Documenting RFI’s and RFI Logs; Organizing Submittals and Submittals Logs; Meeting minutes; Daily reports – content and purpose; Look Aheads; Documenting changes and requests for change orders; Performing changes before a written change order is issued – private and public work differences; Working under protest; Documenting verbal directives; Professional Emails – don’t write anything that you would not want a judge or jury to see. The participants finish the session with an entertaining case study where they can put their new found skills to the test! Back to Home Contract Terms Devil in Details Changes and Claims - Do it Right or Lose Your Rights Understanding the procedures and deadlines for dispute resolution as dictated by the contract, and understanding the types of damages you can claim, are keys to maximizing your chances of a successful resolution. This workshop focuses on conflicts involving: scope of work; plans and specs; percent of completion; delays; changes in project schedule; withholding payments; causes of delay; T&M directives; and changed or extra work. The course also discusses the appropriateness of demanding dispute resolution prior to the completion of the project. Participants will also gain a deeper understanding of force majeure events, and the effect of various categories of delays, such as excusable, non-excusable, compensable, non-compensable, and concurrent. The workshop also explores disruption and acceleration claims, differing site conditions, and the calculation of damages, including general conditions, field office and home office overhead, and the impact of contractual limitations on mark-ups. The session concludes with the participants rolling up their sleeves and digging into an interesting case study to test their claim-preparation and damage calculation skills! Back to Home Changes and Claims

About Pam: Pam Scholefield has been practicing exclusively in the area of construction law since 1998 and is known for her highly informative, yet entertaining training style. She is often engaged by clients and trade organizations to provide training, workshops, and key-note presentations covering topics such as: Understanding and managing contracts terms, Negotiating contracts, Navigating notice, change order and claims procedures, Effective project management, Protecting payment rights, Negotiation Skills; and Disputes and Dispute Resolution Processes (ADR). For several years, Pam taught the masters level Construction Claims course for the College of Civil Engineering at San Diego State University and for over 15 years she has taught licensing and construction law classes through an electrical apprentice program. Pam's private law practice includes both transaction work (focused on negotiating construction contracts) and litigation (including mediation and other ADR processes), representing developers, contractors and wholesale distributors, whether plaintiffs or defendants, involving commercial, public works and federal projects. She is often sought out for complex construction cases involving disputes related to scope of work, change orders, delays, and work quality. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Pam worked as an engineer for General Electric's Electrical Distribution and Controls Division, culminating her 10-year career as an Area Manager before resigning to attend law school. When she's not thinking about contracts, Pam loves hiking, camping, and adventures and is a bit of a risk-taker, once traveling cross-country in 46 hours on her Harley Softail Deluxe and helping sail the 46' Catamaran, Bel Gato, through the Panama Canal and up the coast to Costa Rica. She has recently taken up endurance racing in a 1991 Mazda MX-5 (NA), and is determined to master California Tracks such as Willow Springs Raceway, Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, and one day finding her way to Watkins Glenn International and Road America. Pam is also a dog lover and volunteers as a transporter for Dobies and Little Paws Rescue in Fillmore, CA. Awards Pam is very active in the construction industry and has received the following awards: Associated General Contractors – “Construction Industry Excellence Award”, 2020 – awarded to one company each year. This award recognizes the high level of integrity and ethics in the company’s business practice, and for going above and beyond normal expectation in its commitment to supporting the AGC, the construction industry and the community. Associated General Contractors – “Affiliate of the Year”, 2020 – awarded to one individual each year. This award recognizes the individual’s commitment to the principals of skill, integrity, and responsibility. NECA (National Electrical Contractors Association) – “Above and Beyond Award”, 2020. This special award was to recognize the efforts Scholefield and her team made to support the industry as a whole during the pandemic. Associated General Contractors – “Construction Industry Professionalism Award”, 2012, 2016 – awarded to one individual each year. This award recognizes an individual's professional performance and achievements and their strong support of the AGC by committee involvement and participation. This award is given to an individual who goes above and beyond the normal expectations of their company in their efforts to support the industry and the members of the AGC. NECA (National Electrical Contractors Association) – “Associate Member of the Year Award”, 2016. This award was to recognize Scholefield's commitment to NECA and the Electrical Industry. Associated General Contractors – “Rookie of the Year”, 2009 – awarded to one new member each year who offers significant contribution to the organization serving on committees and participating in and attending member functions & events. San Diego Daily Transcript – Semi-Finalist “Top Attorney”, 2009 San Diego Daily Transcript – Finalist “Top Attorney”, 2007 Licenses Professional Engineer’s License, State of Colorado – 1992-present, License #28104 State Bar of California, SBN #196368 – 1998 - present. Admitted to practice in all U.S. Federal Districts in California, and the Ninth Circuit Hawaii State Bar, JD# 10570 – 2016 - present Education Juris Doctorate – 1998, University of San Diego, cum laude. Executive editor of Law Review; B.S. Industrial & Systems Engineering – 1984, University of Florida, with Honors. Back to Home

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San Diego Subcontractor Summit Ended 390 US dollars $390 View Course

San Diego Subcontractor Summit September 12, 2024 The San Diego Subcontractor Summit will provide an action packed day of workshops designed to tackle the unique issues subcontractors face related to negotiating subcontracts, subcontract compliance, and performing their work. Space is limited to 50 attendees to ensure maximum learning and retention of information. Who Should Attend? • Company Owners and Management • Project Managers and Project Engineers • Superintendents Where is it located? Sunset View Room, Marina Village 1935 Quivira Way, San Diego, 92109 What's the Cost? Full Day: $390.00* per person *a portion of all registrations are donated to charity. For more details, please contact us. San Diego Subcontractor Summit Ended 390 US dollars $390 View Course