The ReAlignment Group, Ltd.
P.O. Box 811
La Jolla, CA 92038
Toll Free: 1-877-REALIGN
Direct Dial: 858-454-4354
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Associates
The ReAlignment Group associates with professionals from around the country to bring our services and techniques to more owners, designers and contractors. The Associates with whom we currently collaborate include:
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 Kurt L. Dettman is the Principal of Constructive Dispute Resolutions, a consulting firm specializing in the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the construction industry. Prior to starting his own consulting firm, Mr. Dettman was a Claims Services Manager for Carter & Burgess, Inc. Prior to joining Carter & Burgess, Mr. Dettman was the Associate Project Director for Claims Resolution of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T) in Boston, Massachusetts. In that capacity, Mr. Dettman was responsible for the resolution of all construction claims and change issues on the Project. Mr. Dettman also served as Chief Counsel of the CA/T Project, in which capacity he provided legal advice in the areas of construction and design claims and disputes, development and implementation of alternative dispute resolution programs, implementation and oversight of an owner controlled insurance program, negotiation of inter-governmental agreements, and review of governmental procurement and regulations at both state and federal levels. Mr. Dettman received a B.A. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prior to joining the CA/T Project, Mr. Dettman was a commercial litigator with Palmer & Dodge and then Hutchins & Wheeler in Boston.
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 Eric M. Kerness is the Principal of Kerness Consulting, a consulting firm providing legal, alternative dispute resolution and consulting services to public owners and contractors throughout the nation. Mr. Kerness was Assistant Counsel to the New York State Department of Transportation's multi billion dollar construction program. In that capacity, he provided legal counsel and guidance on contracts and supervised staff attorneys and claims engineers in the defense of $ 7 billion worth of contract and tort litigation. He was responsible for resolution of all construction claims in that program and developed and implemented the department's alternate dispute resolution process. Prior to joining NYSDOT he was an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York defending state agencies in highway, building and infrastructure litigation throughout the state. He currently serves on the Legal Resources Executive Board of the Transportation Research Board, a part of the National Academies of Science and Engineering. Mr. Kerness received his undergraduate degree from Queens College and his law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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 Blasdel A. Reardon is a founder and a principal of BostonSolv LLP, a construction dispute avoidance and resolution firm. Like most of his associates, Mr. Reardon draws upon his engineering, business, and mediation education as well as four decades of construction experience to assist owners, designers, and contractors in preventing disputes or resolving conflicts themselves. Mr. Reardon spent 21 years at the Armco Steel Corporation followed by 19 years as the chief operating officer for two commercial/industrial subcontractors. As an alternative dispute resolution specialist, Mr. Reardon now focuses on coaching project participants, advocating a project team approach, sitting on dispute resolution boards, engaging in structured negotiations, and handling conciliation and mediation assignments. He holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S. in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a certificate from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
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| Tom Brascher |
 Tom Brascher, is a nationally recognized expert in partnering, intervention partnering, and alternative dispute resolution. He is the creator of Project ReAlignment™ and its related processes, including Risk Tester™ and SlateTRACKER.™ Tom worked for many years with Morrison Knudsen on large civil projects before going to work with the Department of General Administration for the State of Washington. At E&A, he supervised the division of contracts and costs and managed special projects. In the private sector, he applied his substantial knowledge of contract disputes to his work as a consultant for the Effectiveness Institute. When he started his own firm, Team Tech, Inc., in 1995, he refined a change order, pre-dispute resolution process. Tom has successfully re-aligned more than 40 major projects in Alaska, Washington and California.
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| Marsha Brascher |
 Marsha Brascher, has spent three decades as a human resources manager and trainer, including nearly 20 years for the Bell System. She developed a reputation for working with "teams at risk." At Hughes Aircraft, she worked on and refined their highly touted Leading for Performance program. She joined her husband Tom in founding Team Tech, Inc. in 1995. Marsha facilitates Project ReAlignment™ and Project Alignment™ for large construction projects and continues her work with "difficult people." She and Dick Bayer are currently authoring a book on strategies for understanding difficult people on construction sites, entitled Code Red. She has worked, facilitated, collaborated and instructed on behavioral understanding throughout the country.
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