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Title: Target Legal 3 – Can It Happen to You? Avoiding Legal Pitfalls

This is part of the "Target Legal Series" series, which also included the following events:
* Target Legal 1 – Hidden Liabilities
* Target Legal 2 – Understanding and Enforcing Contract Terms
Date(s): August 10, 2005
Location: Audio/Web Broadcast
Cost: Members: $150.00
Non Members: $150.00
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Description: Discover the most common and costly agency vulnerabilities by learning from experts
in Public Works law.

This session addresses key steps to avoid or reduce potential legal disasters from personnel problems to constituent lawsuits. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from case studies and put into practice preventative measures.

Join Public Works law experts, Peter Letzmann and Gerry Farquhar, in this informative session. Doug Brown, Public Works Director for Overland Park, Kansas will be moderating the program.
Speaker: Peter A. Letzmann

Peter A. Letzmann helps small governments, not for profit groups and businesses improve the performance of their organizations. Peter was the City Attorney of Troy, Michigan for seventeen years. At Troy Peter was responsible for all of the city's legal matters, including, advising the city officials, defending the city against claims and law suits, land use, eminent domain, telecommunications, ordinance prosecutions, personnel and labor, law enforcement, contracts, ordinances and documents. He also has been a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Pontiac and an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Detroit.

Peter has made hundreds of presentations regarding legal issues and leadership aspects of government. He taught in the graduate school of Public Administration at Oakland University and has been an instructor at MSU, EMU, Oakland Community College, Kellogg Community College, Washtenaw Community College and others.
Speaker: Gerald W. Farquhar, Esq.

Jerry Farquhar has been actively engaged in the construction claims arena for more than 40 years. As a professional liability defense attorney, Jerry developed an expertise in assisting project owners and design firms in assessing and managing professional liability risks. For the past 33 years, he has been a consulting attorney to CNA and Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc., which together conduct the world’s largest program of design liability insurance for design professionals, construction contractors and other construction-related professional service firms. As a consultant, Jerry provides CNA and Schinnerer with decision support in the areas of professional liability insurance underwriting, policy drafting and revision, and risk management. He was instrumental in developing with Schinnerer the extensive body of knowledge that allows design firms and their clients to perform a rational analysis of exposures to manage risk and prevent claims.

A nationally recognized speaker before various owner organizations and client groups, professional and trade associations, and government agencies, Jerry has conducted hundreds of seminars directed toward the improvement of professional practice and the control of risk in project delivery.

Jerry is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law School and a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association.
Speaker: Doug Brown, P.E.

Doug is the Director of Public Works for the City of Overland Park, Kansas. He is responsible for the overall administration , development and direction of the Public Works programs including field maintenance, traffic services, engineering and administration activities related to public streets, storm drainage, traffic signals and traffic control, street lighting and traffic signing and marking.

He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy with a BS in Engineering; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an MS in Nuclear Engineering; and the University of Kansas with a Masters degree in Public Administration. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Kansas, Virginia and Maryland.

Prior to coming to Overland Park in 1997, he served in the US Army for 27 years and with Louis Berger and Associates, Inc. for three years.

Doug and his wife Vickie have a son, Doug, a daughter, Ashley, and a grandson Joshua.
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