This post is part of our ongoing green building litigation series and relates to a presentation that OGBL’s three LEED® AP attorneys recently delivered to the Meritas organization. The presentation covered green building and consruction risks & risk management, current trends in green leasing, and greenwashing. We’ll focus today on three fundamental ways to mitigate the risk of claims related to green [...]
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LEEDigation, part V: Green building project risk management as easy as one, two, three…
Posted in 1 on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
LEED Legal Clinic at Illinois Law School
Posted in LEED, LEED v3, National, tagged Illinois Law School, LEED Continuing Education, LEED Legal Clinic on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Illinois College of Law has created the first LEED legal clinic in the nation. The legal clinic, which will consist of a partnership between a student run LEED team and a local real estate developer, plans to obtain LEED certification for an apartment clubhouse. The Legal Clinic also is planning on providing a Continuing Legal [...]
OGBL’s David Scott Speaking at Ohio Green Building Expo
Posted in 1 on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
OGBL’s own David M. Scott will be speaking next month at the Ohio Green Expo/Get Green Business Conference, “Ohio’s largest green building and business conference.” David will talk about the quickly-evolving realm of greenwashing claims. As consumers demand more accountability, businesses face greater risks and David will discuss risk management and current trends in greenwashing litigation. [...]
Greenwashing and the Federal Trade Commission: Part II
Posted in Codes and Regulations, National, Ohio, tagged FTC, Greenguides, greenwashing on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In Part One of this series of posts, I discussed how the FTC, through the Green Guides is taking enforcement actions against companites that greenwash thier products. I also mentioned that FTC punishment can be rather harsh. For instance: The FTC has enforcement authority to issue a cease and desist order for up to 20 [...]
Greenovate launches 6-month workshop series on green building and health
Posted in Ohio on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Our friends over at Greenovate recently announced their development of a six-month workshop series called “Room-by-Room: Green Building and Your Health” to help homeowners create more healthful indoor environments. Basically, various panels of local experts will cover topics such as indoor air quality, lead poisoning prevention, asthma and allergy control, and non-toxic household cleaning. In so [...]
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