We know the construction process becomes more challenging daily, and you need practical, business-minded legal support driving that process forward through, and sometimes despite, those challenges. Our team provides that support, from the bid/planning phase through the close of the project and beyond – whether your needs are related to project development and planning, contract negotiations and drafting, managing job site relationships and issues, evaluation and placement of critical insurance coverage and risk transfer, advancement and incorporation of new technologies and techniques, dispute resolution of unresolved claims, including litigation or arbitration if necessary, or some other continuously emerging risk consideration.
We apply our multiple decades of construction project, honed trial skills, and creative risk assessment to help you complete projects safely, on time, and within budget – successfully driving cost-effective, equitable allocation of project risk. Our practice is flexible, enhanced by our experiences representing project owners, contractors, and design professionals of all sizes.
We lend valuable support on the ever-changing commercial construction issues you, your insurers, and your third-party administrators face daily, on both national/regional and state/local levels, including:
- pragmatic coordination and claims oversight of claims, contract, and risk transfer across the full spectrum of insurance matters,including general liability, professional liability, and property/builder’s risk
- outside general counsel needs, with document management, accounting, and audit procedures
- contract drafting, negotiation, and litigation, including government construction contract compliance counseling across many sectors, including nuclear facilities and defense contract development
- critical insurance coverage and risk transfer program matters assessment and implementation, including review and verification of traditional insurance plans and needs (commercial general liability, professional liability, builders’ risk, and contractor- and owner-controlled programs), as well as development of alternate risk management plans, including contract/’insured contract’ risk transfer matters, subcontractor liability and additional insured coverage verification programs, and tenders/risk transfer effect programs
- project development and real estate management and purchases, as well as perfection, negotiation, and litigation of mechanic’s liens, surety bond, and delay claims
- catastrophic loss emergency response services, OSHA investigations and support, and litigation planning and implementation, including of complex indemnification claims, general liability, professional liability, and products liability claims involving bodily injury, product failure, construction defect, and malpractice claims against constructors, architects, engineers, insurance brokers/producers, and other project professionals
