At the outset of a project, we represent both owners and contractors on procurement issues and related disputes, including bid submission compliance; bid protests and bid withdrawals; and eligibility and compliance with small, disadvantaged, and minority-owned business enterprise programs.

Owners also often turn to us for advice on project structuring, including public-private partnerships and project delivery options, such as design-bid-build, GC at Risk, design-build, design-build-operate-maintain, and engineering, procurement, and construction contracting structures. We regularly prepare prequalification, request for proposal, bidding, and other "front-end" documents and assist in the selection and engagement of the project team.

Our team drafts and negotiates a variety of contracts on a broad spectrum of projects locally, nationally, and internationally. Our goal in contract drafting is to avoid costly problems later in a project through clarity, fairness, and thoroughness. Our lawyers have a strong working knowledge of American Institute of Architects; ConsensusDOCS; Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee; Design-Build Institute of America; International Federation of Consulting Engineers; Infrastructure, Construction, and Engineering; and other industry forms. For clients that prefer manuscript contracts, our team uses its vast experience to draft contracts from scratch to meet project needs.

We help clients identify and address potential contractual performance issues as they arise during design and construction to prevent them from becoming disputes. Clients seek our help analyzing a range of problems, including design errors and omissions, delays and time extension requests, change requests, unforeseen or differing site conditions, and defective work. We also counsel clients on handling lien and bond claims, surety takeover and liquidating arrangements, and terminations for default and convenience.

In addition, we provide guidance on a variety of labor issues, including "double-breasted" operations, union certification and decertification campaigns, picket control, union trust fund audits, and Davis-Bacon and little Davis-Bacon prevailing wage compliance. We also assist with Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Housing Act, and building code compliance.

Our lawyers have extensive experience preparing, analyzing, and negotiating claims and requests for equitable adjustment on private and public projects. In addition to cost and technical issues, many claims involve allegations of delay and/or inefficiency and disruption. Our experience with delay analyses, construction costs, and damages calculations allows us to assist in developing strategies to resolve claims of every variety.

When claims arise and are not resolved at the project level, we have broad experience in state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as in alternative dispute resolution. Most years, we successfully represent clients in multiple trials and arbitrations. In recent years, we have successfully helped clients pursue and defend claims of all sizes and types, including construction delays and impacts, cost overruns, design and architectural errors and omissions, construction defects, surety issues, termination disputes, and insurance coverage, among other issues.

Our group is distinct in that many of our members have technical backgrounds in architecture, engineering, and construction. We also employ innovative technologies to support dispute resolution, including document management, cost accumulation and assessment, and graphics and animation presentations.