Our construction law practice provides focused legal counsel on both transactional and dispute resolution matters. Our clients include owners, developers, public entities, contractors and financial institutions.

We bring legal skills to bear during many stages of a construction project. These stages range from designing the contracting structure to developing financial and risk management strategies, securing required entitlements and assuring legal compliance, negotiating and administering the contracts, and responding to and ultimately resolving any claims that may arise.

Our lawyers have extensive backgrounds in:

• Structuring, drafting and negotiating architecture, engineering, procurement, construction and financing contracts of all types;
• Amending general plans, implementing zone and height changes, negotiating development rights, obtaining coastal development permits, securing dedication of lands, negotiating rights of way, obtaining conditional use permits and variances and the processing of complex subdivision projects, including phased and large residential projects;
• Developing financing strategies and providing counsel on reducing project exposure to a variety of sales, use, income and property taxes;
• Designing and implementing risk management strategies for construction projects;
• Helping clients comply with special legal requirements affecting construction such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA);
• Prosecuting and defending against claims involving extra work, delays and acceleration, subsurface conditions, mechanics' liens, stop notices and construction defects; and
• Litigating complex construction cases in both federal and state courts.