Eight years ago, the United State Supreme Court decided Lilly Ledbetter, saying that Ledbetter could not sue her employer for discriminatory wages, because she waited too long to file the suit.

Everyone in the construction industry is familiar with the long running joke, “the final phase of construction is always litigation.”  Like many old idioms, there is some truth to it. But in the ever evolving world of complex construction litigation, the landscape is changing. The rising cost of litigation has created a need for more efficient and cost effective ways to handle the ever present disputes that arise in the course of most construction projects.