Different: Focussed on what matters
Risk is part of the business of projects; disputes should not be.
When risk is poorly handled, disputes arise and can become an intractable problem. They can impede and take over a project, and rob control and value from key stakeholders.
Project Dispute Advice ensures control stays with project stakeholders, enabling commercial objectives to be achieved.
Chris Davidson is a project dispute specialist. He established Project Dispute Advice to provide a critical service that would help clients avoid the financial and reputational damage and loss of relationships associated with prolonged wrangling. Read more about Chris here
Chris has seen many projects face huge disputes with too many treated in an ad hoc, reactive manner. These disputes and projects become mired in problems which consume resources with no end in sight. Without appropriate advice at an early stage, many projects are put on a path with limited options, and from which it is very hard to escape.
“The hesitation, often failure, to address project dispute risk early can lead to higher legal costs later, destroy value and threaten project objectives”
Poor project delivery – resulting in delays, cost overruns and below par performance – often gives rise to dispute risk and leads to disputes. Ineffective management of dispute risk and resolution of disputes throughout the project life cycle adds to these outcomes.
Project participants need to develop and implement, at an early stage, proactive strategies to manage and avoid dispute risk.
Should disputes occur, they need to be resolved efficiently and effectively. Strategies to achieve this must be regularly reviewed to take account of changes in circumstances and to assess the affect on commercial objectives.
Dispute risk and the resolution of disputes should be actively managed and properly resourced by skilful, experienced personnel until they are resolved.
“By delivering strategic legal advice at an early stage and throughout the project lifecycle, when required, the client remains focussed on achieving its commercial objectives.”
This is what Project Dispute Advice does.