Ms. Tiffany has successfully litigated hundreds of construction and construction-related matters as lead trial counsel over the years, including:

• Successfully defended and settled a suit for breach of contract and mechanics’ lien brought following a commercial project valued at approximately $100 million, including numerous claims of mechanical and engineering failures by the subcontractor claimant.
• Secured dismissal at pleadings stage in favor of nationally based underground utility contractor in a double fatality automobile accident. Plaintiff claimed accident resulted from contractor’s work in vicinity of roadway. Motion granted based upon pleadings and numerous investigative depositions allowed by trial court. Affirmed by First District Illinois Appellate Court. Appeal to Illinois Supreme Court denied based upon briefs by Hepler Broom colleague Sarah Jansen (2021).
• Achieved dismissal through summary judgement on behalf of an electrical subcontractor in a multi-party $90 million property damage claim resulting from alleged electrical and design failures (pro hac vice admission, Indiana, 2016-2017).
• Successful defense and resolution of an $18 million water-intrusion claim, alleged to have resulted from plumbing work/failure (resolved 2016 for $650,000).
• Successful defense and resolution of a fire loss claim in Northern California on behalf of nationally based electrical utility contractor (pro hac vice admission, 2015).
• Successful defense of an electrical subcontractor in a respondeat superior/agency claim involving business-altering issues, including whether scope of work was implicated through company-issued cell phones and “on call” system involving union employees (Will County, 2013 – Not Guilty).