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Construction Litigation Representative Experience

Examples of our construction litigation experience include:

  • Obtaining a multi-million dollar jury verdict for a contractor for extra costs of construction incurred because of the owner's unilateral change of the project design.
  • Obtaining an arbitration award for a contractor of approximately four times the unpaid contract amount based in part on decreased bonding capacity.
  • Serving as lead attorneys for a school district in the construction document development and later subsequent defense of contractor claims.
  • Serving as lead attorneys for a local utility in prosecuting a claim against a general contractor who drove a lateral piling through an underground utility service.
  • Defending the construction manager, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer against multi-million dollar claims by a public entity arising out of the design and construction of the runways for a major airport.
  • Representing a real estate investment partnership in a dispute with a developer arising out of a joint venture to construct a residential subdivision.
  • Serving as lead trial attorneys on behalf of a civil engineering firm seeking recovery from a large governmental agency under the doctrine of cardinal change.
  • Serving as lead trial attorneys on behalf of a project manager on multiple hydro electric projects for different governmental owners defending claims from the general contractor and prosecuting claims against various commercial general liability carriers.
  • Serving as lead trial attorneys in the defense of a general contractor on a 425-unit apartment complex, and the prosecuting of claims against the commercial general liability carrier for the general contractor.
  • Defending a general contractor against multi-million dollar claims by an owner arising out of the design and construction of an apartment complex.
  • Defending a civil engineer against multi-million dollar claims by a public entity arising out of the design and construction of an electronic security system for a prison.
  • Defending an architect and structural engineer against multi-million dollar claims by a public entity arising out of the design and construction of a psychiatric hospital.
 

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