Many NASBP Educational Programs in 2012 will Offer Continuing Education Credit

Next year, NASBP will offer a wide variety of educational opportunities for surety professionals with several offering continuing education (CE) credit. The lineup will include:

• William J. Angell Surety School (Winter Session) Offers CE – January in Houston, Texas
• Federal Government Construction Workshop – June in Washington, D.C.
• William J. Angell Surety School (Summer Session) Offers CE – August in Miami, Florida
• Sales Workshop for Surety Professionals – September in Seattle, Washington
• Construction Contracts and Bond Forms Workshop – Offers CE, October in Dallas, Texas
• 22 Virtual Seminars
• Online CE Course – Commercial Surety Fundamentals (available now)
• Online CE Course – Contract Surety Fundamentals (available early 2012 – See article on this course in this issue of Pipeline.)
• CE sessions on Managing Subcontractor Risk – To be offered at Annual Meeting and all Regional Meetings

Three of the four Construction Contracts and Bond Forms Workshop instructors reviewing materials before a case debriefing (from left) Eric Nelson, Tom Kelleher, and Steve Nelson.

Navigating Contract and Bond Form Language Can Be a Tricky Proposition

If you missed the October NASBP Construction Contracts and Bond Forms Workshop held in Atlanta, Georgia this year, you will have another opportunity to attend the Workshop in the fall of 2012. This program, which also offers continuing education credit, was developed in collaboration with one of the premier construction law firms, Smith, Currie & Hancock. Tom Kelleher, Eric Nelson, and Gene Rash of Smith, Currie & Hancock along with Steve Nelson of SureTec offered participants practical strategies for identifying and dealing with problematic language in construction contracts as well as surety bond forms. The course, which qualified for an average of 10 CE credits in most states, covered a wide array of risk topics and included take-away tools such as checklists, pre-qualification forms, and action plans. The participants felt that the case study exercises offered a great opportunity to work in teams to review the concept offered during the Workshop. The program will be offered again in October of 2012 in Dallas, Texas. Complete information will be available after the first of the year on the NASBP website.

NASBP will offer the Construction Contracts and Bond Forms Workshop again in October of 2012.		Workshop participants discussing a case study.

Complete information about all of these programs is available by clicking here, or contact Ann Latham at alatham@nasbp.org or by calling 202-686-3700.