Carol Patterson Speaks at 36th Annual Meeting of the American College of Construction Lawyers

In February 2025, Senior Partner Carol Patterson spoke at the 36^th Annual Meeting of the American College of Construction Lawyers in St. Petersburg, Florida. This year’s program was titled “In the AI of the Hurricane: How Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change are Taking the Construction Industry by Storm,” focusing on changes to the design profession and construction industry. Ms. Patterson moderated a panel titled “Revolution in the Making: The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Design and Construction” which discussed the impact of a new era with computers no longer used as instruments for data creation, manipulation, and management, but, powered by artificial intelligence, and the related transformative effect on the design and construction process.

The American College of Construction Lawyers is an invited association of construction law practitioners, professors, and judges. Founded in 1989, its mission is to improve and enhance the practice and understanding of construction law and to promote the positive role of lawyers as “friends of the project.” The College includes lawyers from the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and France. Fellowship is extended by invitation to those who are found to have mastered the practice or the teaching of construction law and dispute resolution in the complex technical and legal fields pertaining to the built environment, whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, scholarship, professionalism, and collegiality, and who have demonstrated a commitment to “give back” to the construction industry.