Stites & Harbison, PLLC

Anne E. Gorham

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Anne's practice focuses entirely on the construction industry. She represents contractors, design-builders, owners, developers and design professionals. She provides advice to project participants prior to commencement of the project, and resolves problems arising either during the project or post-project completion.  She has been involved with projects that range from industrial and commercial distribution centers, pipeline construction and chemical manufacturing facilities to highway construction and energy production facilities including coal gasification and biomass.

Anne is a member of the firm's Management Committee, member and former Chair of the Construction Service Group and Co-Chair of the Lexington Office Recruiting Committee and the Diversity Committee. She is listed in Chambers USA, "America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2011), The Best Lawyers in America^® (2007-2012) in Construction Law and Construction Litigation and the Kentucky Super Lawyers magazine (2007-2011), where she was also listed among the Top 25 Women Lawyers in the state in 2007-2011. She is also a Fellow in the American College of Construction Lawyers.

Recent Assignments

• Successfully defended a multifaceted challenge of a PSD air permit by the Sierra Club and other citizens' groups relating to the Cash Creek coal gasification facility
• Successfully arbitrated three-month multi-million dollar claim on behalf of a design/builder against a Georgia tire manufacturing facility, and defended backcharge claims of the facility owner
• Successfully litigated a case for a Minnesota bridge painting contractor, its subcontractor and its surety against the Commonwealth of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Her clients achieved a $12 million settlement from the Cabinet, the largest settlement paid in the history of the Transportation Cabinet.
• Negotiated successful resolution of a multi-million dollar dispute with a contractor and its surety regarding the failure of the contractor to timely complete installation of a gas pipeline under the Spring River in Iowa

Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications

• "New state immigration laws are impacting the construction industry," Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Client Alert, September 13, 2011
• "Law Firm Diversity Best Practices: The Essentials to Starting & Maintaining an Effective Diversity Initiative for Hiring & Retention," ABA Forum on the Construction Industry 2011 Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Ariz., April 16, 2011
• "Integrated project Delivery," Health Enterprises Network, Louisville, Ky., June 2009
• "ConsensusDOCS: Who's the New Kid on the Block?," ASHRAE Annual Meeting, Louisville, Ky., June 2009
• Contributing Author, "Navigating Construction Contracts: Comparison and Risk Allocation of Standard Forms," Negotiating and Structuring Construction Contracts: Leading Lawyers on Protecting Client Interests, Managing Risk, and Understanding Recent Trends and Developments (Inside the Minds), Aspatore Books, May 2009
• "AIA Contract Documents vs. ConsensusDOCS: Who's the Fairest of Them All?," Podcast presented by Anne Gorham and Cassidy Rosenthal to AGC Kentucky, December 3, 2008
• "E-Discovery and Corporate Document Retention Policies," CFMA Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, October 2008
• "Who's the Fairest of Them All? ConsensusDOCS vs. AIA Documents," NASSC Conference, Nashville, Tenn. April 2008
• Contributing Author, Kentucky Construction Law, Stites & Harbison, PLLC, 2007
• "The New AIA Contract Documents," CSI Louisville Chapter, July 12, 2007
• "The 2007 AIA Contract Documents," NASSC Convention, New Orleans, April 2007
• Governing Committee Liaison to the Annual Meeting of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, Puerto Rico, April 2007
• "Legal Aspects of Design-Build Construction," Kentuckiana Construction Users Council, Louisville, Ky., August 16, 2006
• ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, Co-Chair of Fall Meeting in Toronto, Canada, September 2005
• Contract Drafting presentation, Ohio Valley Chapter of DBIA, February 2005
• ABA Forum on the Construction Annual Meeting Co-Chair, Boston, 2003
• Co-Editor of the Design/Build Deskbook, first, second and third editions
• "No Damages for Delay Clauses," presentation at the joint meeting of TIPS and the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, New York, 2002
• Co-author of Point/Counterpoint on the Revisions to the Model Procurement Code, The Construction Lawyer, October 2000
• Presentation on Construction Claims, Lorman Seminars, November 1999
• Co-author of Chapter on Design Professional Liability for Construction Law Handbook, to be published in 1999
• Presentation on Design/Build Licensure and Contracting to NCSEA, October 1, 1998
• State-By-State Guide to Architect, Engineer and Contractor Licensing, co-author of Kentucky and Indiana chapters (Aspen Law & Business 1998)
• "Privity and the Economic Loss Doctrine," Kentuckiana Construction Users Conference, 1998
• Presentation on Design/Build Licensure and Contracting to the World Bridge Symposium, September 2, 1998
• "Changes to the AIA B141," speaker for Kentucky Society of Architects, November 1997
• "Kentucky Procurement Law," speaker and author for the Kentucky Bar Association Annual Meeting, June 1997
• "The Total Cost Method of Calculating Damages," Construction Briefings, Federal Publications, April 1997
• "The Economic Loss Doctrine in Kentucky," speaker and contributor, Sixth Biennial Midwest/Midsouth Construction Law Institute, sponsored by the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Bar Association, September 20-21, 1996

Before Stites & Harbison

Before going to law school, Anne worked as an intern at the Kentucky Attorney General's Office for a year, and then worked as a paralegal, specializing in construction cases, for six years.

Besides Stites & Harbison

Anne is an avid runner, occasional fly fisherperson and frustrated golfer.