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Dispute Data was founded to allow construction and engineering clients benefit from the significant time, cost and quality benefits and improved outcomes that flow from early, experience backed data services. We work with commercial, expert and legal teams to help them first understand the risk and then capitalise on the opportunity of project data.
Dispute Data
2y ago
With $50 billion earmarked for road and bridge repair by the latest administration, is it a once in a generation opportunity? As politicians once again defer to scientific and academic expertise, Charlie Woodley highlights the scale of the shortfall, the political irony of the link to climate change and how avoiding tragedy is fraught with challenges.
Kevin Rofidal, United States Coast Guard
Lest we forget
Human nature is as vulnerable as it is predictable. The public is quickly desensitized by mass media. It is true of famine, war, scandal, terrorism and now pandemic deaths. Yet the loss and ..read more
Dispute Data
2y ago
London, United Kingdom 26 January 2021.
Claim and litigation support specialists Dispute Data launch their first Digital Perspectives paper. Packed with insight and recommendations it shines a light on the underbelly of engineering and construction claims. Discover the hallmarks of poor quality and underlying factors which, if addressed, can prevent a claim being comprised from the outset. Learn how digital naivety leads to spiralling costs and what to do about it.
Find out how to improve the quality of claims, how to drive efficiency gains and control the associated time, cost and quality ben ..read more
Dispute Data
2y ago
Legal and expert opinion depends on the simple premise that preserved documents can be searched. But human interaction with document processing can result in key evidence not being indexed and as such not being responsive to discovery searches.
Charlie Woodley offers words of warning and urges those conducting searches during eDiscovery to be on guard and to periodically check they can search for what they see. Or, risk overlooking potentially relevant facts, missing that elusive smoking gun or otherwise avoidable cost.
Parties, legal advisors and experts all rely upon eDiscovery platforms to ..read more
Dispute Data
2y ago
The cost, quality and prospects of engineering and construction claims often hinge on the ability to efficiently repurpose project records for use in evidence.
In addition to providing recommendations, Charlie Woodley considers some of the underlying information challenges in the industry, their potential impact on claims and how the status quo in dispute resolution professional services leads to cost escalation and uncertainty. He makes the case for harnessing technology early in the process to drive efficiency, cost savings and to derive operational value from claim or dispute expenditure.
B ..read more
Dispute Data
2y ago
Stagnant productivity in engineering and construction expert witness practice is a major contributor to the cost of dispute resolution in what remains a highly contentious industry.
Charlie Woodley offers insight into the underlying causes and how embracing digital ways of working improves productivity and conveys a digital advantage to advisor and client.
Most senior practitioners agree little has changed over careers spanning decades despite the adoption of technology within the industry and amongst legal advisors, the question is why?
This post is not intended to lambast experts. Instead ..read more
Dispute Data
2y ago
Wishing all of our clients and employees a happy, healthy and bountiful New Year ..read more
Dispute Data
2y ago
Today we launch our new website featuring News & Views and more in depth thought leadership via our Digital Perspective series. Register to recieve content notifications ..read more
Dispute Data
3y ago
With $50 billion earmarked for road and bridge repair by the latest administration, is it a once in a generation opportunity? As politicians once again defer to scientific and academic expertise, Charlie Woodley highlights the scale of the shortfall, the political irony of the link to climate change and how avoiding tragedy is fraught with challenges.
Kevin Rofidal, United States Coast Guard
Lest we forget
Human nature is as vulnerable as it is predictable. The public is quickly desensitized by mass media. It is true of famine, war, scandal, terrorism and now pandemic deaths. Yet the loss and ..read more
Dispute Data
3y ago
London, United Kingdom 26 January 2021.
Claim and litigation support specialists Dispute Data launch their first Digital Perspectives paper. Packed with insight and recommendations it shines a light on the underbelly of engineering and construction claims. Discover the hallmarks of poor quality and underlying factors which, if addressed, can prevent a claim being comprised from the outset. Learn how digital naivety leads to spiralling costs and what to do about it.
Find out how to improve the quality of claims, how to drive efficiency gains and control the associated time, cost and quality ben ..read more
Dispute Data
3y ago
The cost, quality and prospects of engineering and construction claims often hinge on the ability to efficiently repurpose project records for use in evidence.
In addition to providing recommendations, Charlie Woodley considers some of the underlying information challenges in the industry, their potential impact on claims and how the status quo in dispute resolution professional services leads to cost escalation and uncertainty. He makes the case for harnessing technology early in the process to drive efficiency, cost savings and to derive operational value from claim or dispute expenditure.
B ..read more