Jim O'Connor is a partner at Maslon, where he heads the firm's Construction Law Group. A lawyer for more than 30 years, Jim devotes his practice exclusively to construction and construction insurance-related matters. He represents engineers, general contractors, specialty contractors, owners and designers in contract formation and construction matters throughout the United States. Jim is a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the former Chair of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, and an active member of the AGC's Contract Documents Committee and its Risk Management Committee. He has been published extensively in the construction law area, including the following works: Sticks and Bricks: A Practical Guide to Construction Systems & Technology (ABA 2001), co-editor; AGC Contract Documents Handbook, Chapter 2, "Owner-Contractor Agreements" (Aspen 2003); "Wrestling with Reform: Indemnification Agreements, The Statutory Bars, Promises to Procure, and Insurance Products for the Construction Industry," 1 J.A.C.C.L. 57 (West 2007); and The A201 Deskbook: Understanding the Revised General Conditions, (ABA 2008). In 2011, Jim authored the article "What Every Court Should Know about Insurance Coverage for Defective Construction," 5 J.A.C.C.L. 1 (West 2011), for which he was selected as a 2012 Distinguished Legal Writing Award recipient by The Burton Awards for Legal Achievement.
