Construction Litigation
Helms & Greene represents owners (both private and public), homebuilders, commercial builders, developers, construction managers, general contractors, subcontractors, vendors, construction lenders, architects, engineers, and sureties. Our experience enables us to represent clients with a thorough knowledge of the legal relationships among the various parties in construction projects.
When litigation is unavoidable, we vigorously protect and assert client interests. Our attorneys litigate the full range of construction disputes before state and federal courts. We regularly engage in a variety of alternative dispute resolution forums, including arbitration, mediation, mini-trials, dispute review boards, and structured negotiations
We are experienced with construction claims and cases ranging from the common to the extraordinary, including those involving:
- Fee and payment disputes
- Construction defects
- Design defects
- Delay and acceleration
- Different site conditions
- Extra work
- Change orders
- Engineering defects
- Indemnity disputes
- Mechanic's lien claims
- Disruption and loss of labor productivity
- Products liability
- Job site safety
- Personal injury
- Property damages
- Insurance coverage issues
Several of our attorneys are also arbitrators registered with the American Arbitration Association and other alternative dispute resolution organizations, and, as such, are intimately familiar with the "ins and the outs" of the arbitration process.
Our construction attorneys are familiar with the full range of commercial, industrial, residential, and mixed-use construction, including:
- Shopping centers
- Resorts and hotels
- Oil refineries
- Chemical refineries
- Off-shore oil rigs and drilling platforms
- Hospitals
- Churches
- Schools
- Condominiums
- Apartment complexes
- Residential developments and individual homes
- Assisted living facilities
- Warehouses
- High rise / office buildings
- Underground utility and pipeline construction