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How to Limit COVID-19 Related Legal Claims

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 01.11.21

In their Commentary, “How to Limit COVID-19 Related Legal Claims” in the January 2021 issue of Engineering News-Record, Meagan Bachman and Josh Lindsay of C&M discuss advice for limiting and mitigating the disputes that are coming as a result of COVID-19-related disruptions to construction projects. Even as the first vaccines are distributed around the globe, sustained challenges and cost and time impacts to projects can be expected. But there also are opportunities to mitigate the deleterious effects of COVID-19 and reduce the possibility of large-scale disputes down the road.

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Client Alert | 1 min read | 07.11.24

All That and a Bag of CHIPS: Commerce Department Prepares to Open Third Round of CHIPS Act Funding for R&D for Semiconductor Advanced Packaging

On July 9, 2024, the CHIPS Research and Development Office released a Notice of Intent (NOI) to announce a third CHIPS Act Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), which will be the first focused on the CHIPS National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program.  The NOFO will provide up to $1.6 billion for research and development activities in five areas of semiconductor advanced packaging, including (1) equipment, tools, processes and process integration; (2) power delivery and thermal management; (3) connector technology like photonics and radio frequency; (4) the chiplets ecosystem; and (5) co-design/electronic design automation.  The NOFO is expected to include prototype development opportunities in exemplar applications including high-performance computing and low-power systems needed for artificial intelligence.  The NOI also provides information about eligibility expectations and other anticipated requirements for applications....