Commercial Subcontractor Masterclass:

Lower Your Risk, Increase Your Profit, and Get Paid Everything You’re Owed

Regardless of whether you’re new to construction contracts or have reviewed hundreds, I’ll take the mystery out of those 52 comma sentences and show you the best strategies for dealing with companies that tell you “we won’t change a word; take-it-or-leave-it.”

By the end of the course, you will know what 99% of your peers, even those with decades in the industry, don’t have a clue about. You’ll master skills to make you better at your job, make your company stronger, and enable you to sleep better at night.

This Course Will Save Your Company

Don’t risk everything you’ve built on a bad contract.

You’re probably great at your trade. I’m betting you take justifiable pride in your workmanship and in how hard you worked to build your company. But that doesn’t mean that you’re fluent in the legalese and hidden meanings tucked inside just about every contract you sign. So, you’ve got a choice: either pay a construction lawyer to review, mark-up, and negotiate every single subcontract OR cross your fingers and sign on the bottom line. Sure, you can tell yourself that the things you haven’t read are “just boilerplate,” but chances are you could be signing your life away…and you know it.

Do something different. Do something better. Invest in making your company stronger.

My Promise:

I’ve designed this course to enable you to develop mastery over the 8 most critical, high-risk issues in contracting. By the time we’re finished, you will be able to take apart even the most complicated construction contracts to identify and negotiate a fair agreement that GC’s and Owners will accept to:

Protect your company from expensive litigation;
Allow you to avoid potentially crippling losses;
Enable you to protect your hard-earned profits; and,
Allow you to sleep better at night.

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Testimonials

“Great course for a contractor to better their understanding of the pitfalls of a contract. I really learned a lot of good material.”

Dave Brogan, Bristol Environmental

“Eliot delivered the content in a way that was so easy for me to understand. I had zero experience with contracts before I took this course and I never once felt lost or confused. I have been able to utilize the content that was provided in the course and incorporate it into my daily life. I feel really confident reviewing and drafting contracts now as a result of taking the course. Eliot was a great instructor. He is extremely knowledgeable and was able to deliver the information in a way that anyone could understand. I would highly recommend this course.”

Lindsay Barnaba, RSSI Roofing

“Eliot illuminates areas of risk that could I was unaware of. Eliot mitigates the risk with contractual modifications that my clients will accept.”

Bill Stinson, Pipeway Energy Construction

Eliot Wagonheim

I have been a business and construction lawyer for over 30 years. In that span, I have:

Worked with 5-person companies as well as some of the most successful and well-recognized companies in the nation
Drafted and negotiated over $2 Billion worth of contracts.
Negotiated contracts on projects ranging from tenant build-outs to 8-figure hospitals, office buildings, highways, bridges, warehouses, apartment high-rises, and everything in between
Represented subcontractors in virtually every imaginable trade as well as general contractors, construction managers, and design professionals
Been awarded an AV-Rating (excellent to pre-eminent) by peer review from Martindale-Hubbell, recognizing me as one of the elite business attorney’s in the country
Been a multi-year recipient (including current) of Maryland Super Lawyer status

I’ve been a construction lawyer for almost 30 years. Clients would ask me to help them get paid, defend backcharges, fight claims for liquidated damages, and prevent termination. And when a particularly confusing contract term came up, I’d get a call.

But several years ago, I received an unusual call. A client called me, but didn’t ask my help in solving a specific problem. Instead, they wanted me to become part of their process. They wanted me to review all of their contracts – some 50 per year. Some months there would be 0, some months, there might be 8.

I agreed, and we’ve worked well together on almost 200 contracts over the years since. The interesting thing was that they weren’t the only one. Others followed. More and more companies were asking me to review their contracts and educate them on the negotiating points, deal-breakers, nice-to-haves and need-to-haves on projects ranging from $25,000 to $90,000,000.

Believe me, I’ve done well doing this. Frankly, my ability to pay for my children’s college education rests on my ability to help commercial contractors of every size, trade, and description avoid landmines, lower risk, and maximize profit.

There are, however, two problems. First, the work is one-to-one. One contract at a time, for one company at a time. Second, I show people where the landmines and opportunities are, but I haven’t taught them to find them on their own. I’m reminded of the adage “give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.”

One contract at a time, I spend a lot of time giving out fish.