James D Miller

James D Miller

July 02, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

Enforceability of Oral Change Orders Despite 'No Oral Modification' Clauses

Most construction contracts contain one or more NOM clauses, including a requirement that valid change orders be in writing. Generally, these clauses provide that a contract cannot be modified absent a writing executed by the parties.

By James D. Miller and Benjamin R. Wright

9 minute read

July 07, 2003 | National Law Journal

O'Connor's reflections

Two years ago, the Chicago Public Library proposed that all Chicagoans should read the same book at the same time-sort of a citywide book club. (The library, leading with its chin, picked Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.) If we decided to have a nationwide American book club, so to speak, we could not pick a better book than Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice.

By James D. Miller

5 minute read