Stites & Harbison, PLLC

         
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.

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. She is listed in Chambers USA, "America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2010), The Best Lawyers in America^® (2007-2011) in Construction Law and the Kentucky Super Lawyers magazine (2007-2010), where she was also listed among the Top 25 Women Lawyers in the state in 2009. She is also a Fellow in the American College of Construction Lawyers.

Recent Assignments

• 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

• "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.