Our Construction Litigation Practice represents owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors, design professionals, sureties, and lenders in the full spectrum of disputes that arise from complex construction projects — from ground-breaking through final completion and beyond. We handle claims for delay damages, acceleration costs, loss of productivity, breach of contract, design errors, construction defects, lien enforcement, payment bond claims, and insurance coverage across commercial, industrial, infrastructure, energy, healthcare, and mixed-use development projects.

Our Approach

We believe the outcome of a construction dispute is largely determined before a single pleading is filed. From the moment we are retained, we conduct a rigorous early case assessment — stress-testing the facts, mapping the contract, identifying critical witnesses, obtaining industry-leading experts, and stress-testing our own theory of the case with the same skepticism an opposing lawyer would bring. That discipline shapes everything that follows: how we position claims, where we direct discovery, which experts we engage, and how we advise clients on the range of realistic outcomes.

We are deliberate about cost without being passive about risk. Construction disputes consume resources — in time, money, and management attention — and we work hard to deploy those resources where they generate the most leverage. That means building lean, appropriately staffed teams, making early decisions about what to fight and what to concede, and keeping our clients informed so they can make strategic decisions with clear eyes at every stage of a matter.

When resolution is in a client’s interest, we pursue it with the same rigor we bring to trial preparation. We have no institutional preference for any particular forum or outcome — not negotiation, not mediation, not arbitration, not litigation. What we have is a commitment to the outcome that best serves each client in each matter, and the experience to give honest counsel about which path gets there.

And when a dispute must be tried, we try it. Our litigators are prepared — technically, factually, and tactically — to take complex construction cases to verdict or final award. That trial-ready posture is not a last resort; it is the foundation of every negotiating position we take and every demand letter we send.

Our Experience

We bring technical fluency to every matter, working alongside engineers, project managers, and forensic consultants to master the facts before we litigate them — whether the dispute turns on defective design, differing site conditions, schedule delay and disruption, cost overruns, scope creep, or structural failure. We understand critical path methodology, earned value analysis, and the full range of contract forms that govern major projects — AIA, ConsensusDocs, FIDIC, and bespoke owner forms alike.

Our litigators are at home in federal and state court, before arbitration panels convened under AAA, JAMS, and ICC rules, and in the administrative proceedings that govern public contracts.