July 21-30, 2025
Mondays & Wednesday
3:00pm – 5:00pm PT
$195
Transportation entities face conflicting and intersecting priorities – they must provide safe, efficient, equitable, multi-modal transportation projects while mitigating financial, legal and operational risk. Legal risk should be addressed by transportation entities early and often, not just after lawsuits have been filed. Employees and officials planning, designing, maintaining and operating their entity’s transportation infrastructure need to understand the major legal principles governing roadway litigation. An understanding of the legal statutes, cases, principles and outcomes will help all transportation employees, from engineers, to planners, to maintenance crews understand how to conduct their operations to minimize or reduce legal risk.
Training will cover legal concepts related to unsafe condition claims in California, investigation of collisions from a litigation perspective (vs. from a purely operational perspective), and will focus on tort liability litigation practices. This course will also cover planning and design elements that provide context sensitive solutions based on the unique geometrics of a given facility while reducing legal risk through proper documentation and engineering judgment.
For questions please contact Berkeley Tech Transfer or to view a detailed course outline.