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Holt
Gwyn is a native North Carolinian living in Greensboro. He has been practicing
law since 1976, as a trial lawyer. His trial experience began as a federal
prosecutor in the Office of the United States Attorney, Middle District of
North Carolina. From 1976-80, he prosecuted white-collar fraud, securities
and environmental violations, and condemned land for U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers projects. His practice today is concentrated in construction,
environmental, white-collar criminal defense and employment disputes for
private industry clients. Mr. Gwyn is the author of more than two dozen
articles on construction and environmental topics and he lectures frequently
to bar and industry groups. Mr. Gwyn has extensive experience in alternative
dispute resolution "ADR" procedures. He is a member of the Large
Complex Case Program (LCCP) Panel of Arbitrators and the Construction Master
Panel for the American Arbitration Association, and is one of five mediators
recently selected by the American Arbitration Association for its Carolinas
Construction Mediation Panel.
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EDUCATION
Mr.
Gwyn received his A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971. He received his
J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1976, where he wrote for
the Wake Forest University Law
Review.
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EMPLOYMENT
EXPERIENCE
After serving in the
Office of the U.S. Attorney from 1976-80, Mr. Gwyn joined the private law
firm of Falk, Carruthers & Roth in Greensboro, where he became the
firm's litigation partner. In 1986, he joined Foster Conner Robson & Gumbiner PA as a partner. In 1988, Foster Conner merged with
Patton Boggs, a Washington, DC firm known for its
governmental affairs practice. The Foster Conner partners opened Patton
Boggs' North Carolina office. Mr. Gwyn continued with Patton
Boggs as a partner until he left to form Conner Gwyn Schenck PLLC in 1999.
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COURT
ADMISSIONS
Mr. Gwyn has been a
member of the North Carolina State Bar since 1976. He is admitted to the
United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the
DC Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and
Western Districts of North Carolina.
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
Mr. Gwyn has been
extremely active in the construction law bar. He is a Fellow in the American College of Construction Lawyers
and has served on its Board of Governors. He was elected to Chair of the
American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry for 1999 to
2000 – the only North Carolinian to have been so honored – and was on its
Governing Committee from 1995 to 2001. He chaired the Forum's Legislation and
Environment Division from 1988 to 1993. He was a member of the Procurement
Fraud Committee of the Public Contracts Section of the ABA from 1991 to 1994. Mr.
Gwyn was a charter member of the Construction Law Section of the North
Carolina Bar Association, and is a member of the Greensboro Bar Association.
Mr. Gwyn has also been active professionally in environmental matters. From 1996
to 2004, Mr. Gwyn was appointed as a Charter Trustee of North Carolina's
Clean Water Management Trust Fund, a state agency which dispenses $40-$60
million each year in water quality grants.
Mr. Gwyn is certified as
a Superior Court Mediator by the Dispute Resolution Commission of the State
of North Carolina. He is on the list of approved mediators
and arbitrators for the United States District Courts for the three districts
of North Carolina. He is one of five mediators on the
Carolinas Construction Mediation Panel of the American Arbitration
Association. He is also on AAA's construction and environmental arbitrator
panels.
Mr. Gwyn serves as General Counsel to the American Fire Sprinkler
Association, Carolinas Chapter, and special legislative counsel to the
national AFSA. Mr. Gwyn also serves as General Counsel to the Wood Truss
Council of America, North Carolina and Capital Area
Chapters.
Mr. Gwyn is very active in community and public affairs, having served on the
following local boards and commissions: Charter Member, Board of Directors,
Downtown Greensboro Incorporated (1996 – 2005); Chairman, Guilford County
Advisory Board for Environmental Quality (1966 – 1998; Vice-Chairman 1995-96;
member 1992 – 1998); President, Preservation Greensboro Incorporated
(1998-2000; Member, Board of Directors, 1992 – 2001); Co-Chairman,
Governmental Affairs Council, Greensboro Area Chamber of Commerce (1993 – 1996);
Member, Board of Directors, Greensboro Area Chamber of Commerce (1995 – 1997); Member, Board of Trustees, John Motley
Morehead Memorial Commission (2001 – present); Member, Board of Directors, Greensboro
Historical Museum (2000 – present);
Member, Board of Directors, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art
(2001 – 2006); Member, North Carolina Stormwater
Advisory Committee (1992 – 1994); Member, Board of Directors, Eastern Music
Festival, Inc. (1994 – 1998) Member, Board of Directors, Fisher Park
Association (1993 – 1997); Member, Board of Directors, Greensboro
Symphony Orchestra (2003 – present); Member, Rotary Club of Greensboro
(1993 - present) Member, Volunteers to the Court, First Offender's Program,
Guilford County (1980 - 1991).
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PUBLICATIONS
The following is a list
of some of the books and articles that Mr. Gwyn has authored or co-authored
over the years. Please contact him if you are interested in receiving more
information about any of these publications:
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Co-author, Construction Damages And Remedies,
ABA Book Publishing, 2004
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Co-author, State Public
Construction Law Source Book - North Carolina (CCH 2002)
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Contributing
Editor, ABA's Quarterly Law
Journal, The Construction Lawyer, (1990 - 1997)
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Editorial
Board, Construction and Design Law Digest (1986 - 1997)
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Co-author, “Fifty-State Survey of
Anti-Indemnity Statutes and Related Case Law,” The Construction Lawyer, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2003
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Co-author,
"Statues of Repose,” The Construction Lawyer, Vol. 21, No. 3,
2001.
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Author,
"A Comparison of the Major International Arbitration Rules,” The
Construction Lawyer, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1999
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Author,
"Contractor and Subcontractor Payment Statutes - Public and Private
Projects,” The Construction Lawyer, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1996, updating
AH Gwyn's earlier article at Vol. 10, No.3, 1990
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Author,
"Apportionment of Liquidated Damages In Cases of Concurrent Delay,” Construction
Law Advisor, 1991
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Author,
"Response to Environmental Releases - Limitations on Liability,” The
Construction Lawyer, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1990
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Co-author,
"Promissory Estoppel: The Rules of Offer and
Acceptance,” The Construction Lawyer, 1991
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Co-author, Construction
and Design Law (5-volume treatise), The Michie
Company, 1991
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Co-author,
Construction
Claims, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 1988
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Author,
"Reconciling Conflicts in Design Documents,” Construction Law
Advisor, 1986
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Author,
"The Use of Amortization as a Zoning Control Tool in North Carolina,” Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 11, No. 5, 1975
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SPEECHES,
PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND SEMINARS
Mr. Gwyn regularly
donates time to speak to industry and construction law groups. The following
is a list of some of the programs Mr. Gwyn has been involved with since 1987.
Please contact him if you have any questions about these
programs.
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"What the Public Sector Has to Know About ADR" The Public
Construction Superconference, Dec. 2001, Sheraton
Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA.
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"Expert
Witnesses - Selection and Ethical Preparation," ABA Annual Meeting,
Section of Litigation, July 2000, Plaza Hotel, New York, NY.
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"How
Government Will Affect Your Business, Today and Tomorrow," American
Fire Sprinkler Association National Convention, September 2000, Phoenix, AZ.
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"Fragmented
Design: Risk and Opportunity," American Fire Sprinkler Association, Carolinas Chapter Annual
Meeting, April 2000.
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"Mastering
Mediation: Making the Process Work for You," Associated General
Contractors of America, Mid-Year Meeting,
September 1998.
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"Legal
Aspects of Truss System Design," Design of Metal Plate-Connected Wood
Truss Systems, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, 1997 and 1998.
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"The
1997 A201: Understanding the Revised General Conditions," District of Columbia Building Industry Association, Washington, D.C., January 1998.
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"Ten
Myths About Mediation," 37th Annual Meeting of Invited Attorneys, New Orleans, LA 1998.
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"Environmental
Construction: Market Or Minefield?" Program Chair, American Bar
Association Construction Forum and Tort and Insurance Section Joint
Mid-Winter Seminar, New York, NY 1994.
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"Construction
Lawyers and Their Clients - Overcoming the Love/Hate Syndrome,"
Construction Superconference, San Francisco, CA 1994.
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"Protecting
the Owner and CM in Construction Management Contracting," Construction
Superconference, San Francisco, CA 1992.
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"EPA's
New Regulations Governing Stormwater
Runoff," American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry,
Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA 1992.
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"Emerging
Issues in Fire Protection Design Responsibility," NCSU School of
Engineering Symposium, 1988; Repeated at the American Fire Sprinkler
Association, Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, SC 1989.
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"The
Federal Construction Safety and Health Act," American Bar Association
Forum on the Construction Industry Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA 1989.
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"Protecting and Enforcing the Subcontractor's Right To Be
Paid," Virginia Law Foundation, Virginia State Bar, Charlottesville, VA 1988.
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"Failsafe Mechanisms for Professional Engineers,"
Professional Engineers of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina 1987.
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