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FN:Richard H. Lowe
TEL;WORK:215.979.1137
TEL;FAX:215.689.3592
EMAIL;WORK;PREF:RHLowe@duanemorris.com
N:Lowe; Richard
TITLE:Partner
ORG:Duane Morris LLP
ADR;INTL;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;;Duane Morris LLP<br />30 South 17th Street<br />Philadelphia, PA  19103-4196<br />USA<br />
URL;WORK:http://www.duanemorris.com
NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: Richard H. Lowe concentrates his practice in construction and commercial litigation and construction law. He handles complex construction litigation, arbitration and mediation matters for owners, contractors, design-builders, design professionals, sureties, subcontractors and suppliers, and has drafted and negotiated construction contracts exceeding $100 million.   

Mr. Lowe is extremely active in the Associated General Contractors of America ("AGC").  As chair of the AGC's BIM Forum's Legal Subforum, he has led a national effort to create a BIM Addendum, the first contract form in the world specifically applicable to projects using Building Information Modeling.  Also, he serves as the vice-chair of the AGC's Contract Documents Committee, a leader in the promulgation of the ConsensusDOCS family of documents that now rivals the AIA form documents.

Long active in the American Bar Association, Mr. Lowe has served as co-chair of the ABA's Construction Litigation Committee, the second largest committee in the ABA Section of Litigation. He also has served as a member of the Steering Committee for Division 3 (Design) of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry.  He is a co-chair of the ABA Construction Forum's Fall 2008 Program on the ConsensusDOCS, to be held in Chicago on September 11 and 12, 2008. Further, he was an editor of "The Construction Contracts Book: How to Find Common Ground in Negotiating Design and Construction Contract Clauses," 2004, an ABA book stemming from a paper he wrote. In addition, he is a member of the Society of Construction Law, the largest group of construction lawyers in the United Kingdom. He has lectured and written on a variety of construction law topics, both across the United States and in Great Britain. Mr. Lowe was listed in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2005, one of only five construction lawyers in Pennsylvania and one of 369 lawyers worldwide to be so honored, and three times has been named as a "Super Lawyer" in construction in Philadelphia.  Mr. Lowe also serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.  

Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New York, Mr. Lowe is a 1982 graduate of New York University School of Law, where he graduated with honors, and a graduate of Yale University. He has also served as the Borough Solicitor for the Borough of Swarthmore.

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