Construction Law

Construction projects are tremendously complicated undertakings involving a complex mix of factual and technical issues, personalities, and potential for legal entanglement and exposure. Success depends on extracting clarity out of this chaos to permit smooth and effective execution of the project. In the event of construction related litigation, success depends on distilling clarity and simplicity from factual and technical confusion.

At Bean, Kinney & Korman, P.C. our construction attorneys have decades of experience in construction related representation and construction litigation. This experience permits our firm’s construction attorneys to rapidly and efficiently analyze the issues a client faces with their project and to develop effective strategies to assist our clients. Our construction attorneys are highly experienced and skilled in all aspects of construction law and construction litigation. We know and understand property issues from initial due diligence through contract and entitlement. We have advised design clients from project marketing through preliminary and schematic design and all the way through construction administration. We analyze code issues from initial submission and permitting through final inspection. Finally, this experience translates to being highly skilled in litigation from the initial Complaint through the final appeal.

The firm’s construction attorneys have represented practically every potential party to a construction related issue or dispute. Over the years, representative clients have included owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors of numerous different types of trades, design professionals of virtually all disciplines, construction managers, and manufacturers of construction related products.  Our construction lawyers have handled matters involving a diverse variety of construction projects, ranging from small residential addition projects to large scale residential mixed-use, multifamily, and large subdivision projects, office buildings and schools, detention facilities, heavy civil site work, road and bridge construction, and water treatment and electrical generation plants.

Our background includes involvement and advice during each stage of the design and construction process. We have extensive experience in negotiation of design and construction related contracts for each of the parties. We understand how construction projects can break down and create potential risks for each of the parties to the process. We can provide effective advice to clients on methods of reducing risks before, during and after the project.

Construction projects involve a large volume of documents and players. Both during the project and during litigation, you need lawyers who already know and understand the construction industry to efficiently cut through the chatter and give you cost effective solutions, advice and representation. We have the skill, experience, and advocacy skills to help you solve your legal issues related to construction and construction litigation.