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Hey Engineers – What Are You Looking For in Chinese Drywall Inspections?

Posted on April 6, 2010 by in Speaking & Webinars

With more than 3000 homes involved in some form of litigation over Chinese Drywall, engineers of all sorts are being called upon to investigate the infected properties and report on its conclusions.

The Chinese Drywall problem, however, presents a lot of practical and scientific challenges. As engineers scratch the surface of these claims, they find more and more questions about the drywall and its damages.

Scott Wolfe has presented to the Louisiana Engineering Society and the American Society of Civil Engineers on precisely these questions, and specifically to answer this question: What Are You Looking For?

Scott’s presentation breaks down the search into three categories:

(1) Is it There? This is the most basic question posed to engineers; simply determining whether the home does or does not have contaminated drywall.

(2) How Deep Are The Damages? This question inquires as to just how deep into the home the damages go. Does it affect the wiring? Does it affect the building studs? Not only does this have relevance to the next category of inquiry, but is also has relevance to determine who is liable for the losses. A prime example of how this affects liability concerns builders and the New Home Warranty Act. If the damages go so deep as to create a structural defect, the NHWA will have broader applicability.

(3) What Type of Damages and How To Remediate. The final question requires determination of how to fix the problems, and to identify what type of damages the problem caused.

Here is the Keynote presentation used during these talks, brought to you by SlideShare:



Scott’s Presentation on Attorney Free Speech Featured at SlideShare.Net

Posted on April 5, 2010 by in Speaking & Webinars

In early March 2010, Scott Wolfe, Jr. was invited by the Washington Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division to present at their Express CLE #13 in Bremerton, WA, concerning Attorney Free Speech Rights on the Internet and its intersection with Ethic Rules. We published the presentation’s slides through SlideShare.net, and were excited to see the presentation selected this morning as a “Featured Presentation,” and promoted on the site’s index page.

Here’s a screen shot from our moment of fame:

The presentation summary is as follows:

Slides from presentation given to the Washington Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division at their Express CLE #13 in Bremerton, WA. The presentation focused on the problems attorneys face when trying to reconcile ethic rules with how they use the Internet. The presentation reviews rules pre-existing the web, and how they may be applied to web situations, as well as new rules passed in states like Louisiana, Florida and New York that specifically address the Internet.

View the slideshow at SlideShare.net here. We’ve also embedded it below.



Scott Wolfe Teaches Loyola Skills Course on Going Solo

Posted on February 25, 2010 by in The Swag

Arguing that “Real lief experience takes you beyond the books,” Loyola University’s New Orleans College of Law requires students to participate in its Skills Curriculum where practicing attorneys and judges teach courses designed to present students with a legal worldview and provide tools and sills to practice law.

Scott Wolfe Jr., a graduate of Loyola’s College of Law, returned to the campus to teach a second Skills course (the first was written about here).

This time, Scott taught “Solo from Scratch: Starting Up, Marketing & Finding Success.”

The presentation was given to 100 students at the school, and focused on the administrative tasks required to open a law practice, marketing concepts like “Positioning,” the use of Web 2.0 tools in business, and a practice’s short and long term goals.

The Keynote slides for the presentation are shared through Slideshare, and embedded directly within this post below.



Scott Wolfe Presents on Green Leases in New Orleans

Posted on February 25, 2010 by in The Swag

Scott Wolfe, Jr. participated in a Sterling Education CLE Seminar on February 6, 2010, in New Orleans, LA, focused on Landlord / Tenant and Real Estate Law. Scott’s presentation addressed “Green Building and Green Lease” issues in Louisiana and the New Orleans area.

Scott is a LEED AP, and is the founding author of two construction law blogs that focus exclusively on green building issues: (1) the Louisiana Green Building Law Blog, focusing on green building legal issues in Louisiana; and (2) the Pacific Northwest Green Building Law Blog, focusing on green building legal issues in the Pacific Northwest.

The presentation for Sterling Education focused on the growth of green building in Louisiana and across the country, an overview of green building principals and the concept of green leases. The Keynote slides for the presentation are shared through Slideshare, and embedded directly within this post below.