J. Kent Holland, Jr. is managing principal of ConstructionRisk.com, LLC, providing construction and environmental risk management services.    His services include assisting clients draft insurance policy and endorsement language, and drafting and negotiating contracts with risks allocated between parties so as to achieve greater insurability.  He teaches risk management and loss prevention workshops and seminars for environmental consultants, design professionals, design-builders, and project owners.  He has provided insurance-risk management services on a project-specific basis on numerous large projects.  He is also a construction lawyer with a national practice emphasizing construction and environmental law—representing project owners, design professionals, and construction contractors in contract negotiations, claim resolution, disputes and litigation.

            From 1982 through 1986, he was an attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, with responsibility for assisting the Agency in deciding wastewater treatment construction grants disputes, contractor claims, bid protests, suspension and debarment matters and minority business enterprise matters. 

          Mr. Holland is a frequent speaker for groups such as the American Bar Association and the International Risk Management Institute on the subjects of environmental law, insurance law, and construction law, with a special emphasis on risk management for design professionals and contractors.  He has written several books, including Risk Management & Contract Guide for Design Professionals (2006); Construction Law & Risk Management - Case Notes and Articles, (2003); Architectural/Engineering Contracts Risk Management Guide (1997); and EPA Construction Grants Disputes: Surviving the Audit (1990). He has also has written chapters in several manuals and books for publishers including, Wiley Law, Aspen Law, and International Risk Management Institute (IRMI).  He co-authored and edited Construction Contractor’s Environmental Risk Management Procedures Manual for the Associated General Contractors Association of America (AGC).   He has taught a Federal Publications course titled The Environmental Liabilities of Government Contractors and Agencies.

          Mr. Holland publishes a web-based construction risk management library and legal newsletter at http://www.ConstructionRisk.com.  He is a 1979 graduate of the Villanova University School of Law.