Practice Areas

Construction Advice and Litigation

Litigation

Although we emphasize early planning and strategies to favorably resolve disputes short of litigation, Lozano Smith also has extensive experience providing cost-effective and comprehensive litigation services from pre-complaint negotiations through summary judgment, trial and appeal. Whether you desire through litigation a quick resolution or the best possible result, our construction litigators will help you achieve your goals by evaluating all relevant procedural and substantive issues, keeping you advised with regular status reports, and consulting with you on all major strategy decisions. Use of appropriate experts in construction litigation is critical, and we have worked with many experts in each of a wide variety of specialties to maximize our clients’ claims and defenses.

Our litigation experience includes claims by architects/engineers for additional services and claims by contractors for extra work, delay, disruption, and payment penalties – all on projects from $100,000 to $50,000,000. In addition to evaluating complex claims by others, we also have prosecuted claims by public agencies for damages caused by the acts or omissions of contractors, architects, engineers and sureties, including construction defects, design errors and omissions, liquidated damages, and false claims. We also resolve stop notice and other smaller cases quickly and at minimal expense.

Project planning, delivery methods and financing
Contract documents and bidding issues
Project management and disputes
Project closeout
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Litigation
Representative Construction Projects and Cases

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