{"id":806,"date":"2026-04-13T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/?p=806"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:13:04","slug":"balancing-the-right-to-repair-with-evidence-preservation-in-construction-defect-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/2026\/04\/13\/balancing-the-right-to-repair-with-evidence-preservation-in-construction-defect-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing the Right to Repair With Evidence Preservation in Construction Defect Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/annaspicer.html\">Anna Spicer<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0co-authored the\u00a0<em>Construction Executive <\/em>article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/constructionexec.com\/article\/balancing-the-right-to-repair-with-evidence-preservation-in-construction-defect-litigation\/\">Balancing the Right to Repair With Evidence Preservation in Construction Defect Litigation<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every major construction project comes with risk, whether it\u2019s a&nbsp;warehouse&nbsp;build, a&nbsp;multifamily&nbsp;development or a major renovation. Parties tend to be aligned when things are proceeding as planned. But when something goes wrong\u2014cracked concrete, water intrusion, systems that don\u2019t perform as expected\u2014those interests can quickly diverge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article on the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/constructionexec.com\/article\/balancing-the-right-to-repair-with-evidence-preservation-in-construction-defect-litigation\/\">Construction Executive<\/a><\/em> website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Spicer\u00a0co-authored the\u00a0Construction Executive article &#8220;Balancing the Right to Repair With Evidence Preservation in Construction Defect Litigation.&#8221; Every major construction project comes with risk, whether it\u2019s a&nbsp;warehouse&nbsp;build, a&nbsp;multifamily&nbsp;development or a major renovation. Parties tend to be aligned when things are proceeding as planned. But when something goes wrong\u2014cracked concrete, water intrusion, systems that don\u2019t perform &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/2026\/04\/13\/balancing-the-right-to-repair-with-evidence-preservation-in-construction-defect-litigation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balancing the Right to Repair With Evidence Preservation in Construction Defect Litigation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[881,888,805],"ppma_author":[696],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anna-spicer","tag-construction-defect-litigation","tag-construction-executive"],"authors":[{"term_id":696,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}