Construction

With offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, we have the ability to help you keep your domestic and international construction projects on track. Services we provide include counsel on domestic and international contracts, finance, litigation, dispute resolution, and many other topics. In addition, we can counsel you on domestic local, state, and federal tax laws and on the intricacies of doing business in various states and countries.

We have extensive experience with all of the commercial families of construction-related forms, including AIA, ConsensusDOCS, EJCDC, and owner manuscript forms. We leverage that experience to help you proactively develop project documentation policies to aid in your compliance and support any project-related claims or defenses, as necessary.

We frequently serve as outside general counsel to those construction clients without a corporate legal department. We take the time to learn your business, which has created lasting relationships with our clients, many spanning several decades. Depending on your needs and business objectives, we can call upon our colleagues across the firm to advise you on a range of topics, including labor and employment, tax, insurance, real estate, environmental, and many others.

To supplement the capabilities of your in-house legal department, we can call the experience of colleagues who focus on construction-related financing, permitting, environmental, zoning, tax, insurance, labor and employment, government regulations, and many other areas. As necessary, we also have the ability to handle the full spectrum of construction dispute resolution.

Filing or responding to a construction bid protest requires immediate action, usually within days of a project award. When timing is critical, you need attorneys who understand the bid protest process and can quickly address your issues. At Foley, we have successfully handled bid protests for clients like you in numerous jurisdictions at federal, state, and local levels.

Our Construction attorneys have litigated virtually every construction project-related issue, including those involving contract interpretation; payment claims; disputes among owners, contractors, subcontractors, and consultants; disputes relating to scope of work changes; differing site conditions; environmental issues; subrogation claims; complex insurance coverage issues; condominium rights; easements and condemnation matters; delay and disruption claims; construction defects; design deficiencies; tax issues; indoor air quality; and LEED issues.

From representation at regulatory hearings to multi-party arbitrations to the conduct of multi-week, complex jury trials, we have the experience to manage your matters and obtain the best possible outcome.

Foley attorneys have in-depth environmental experience, having served as general legal and environmental counsel to water management districts, utilities, airports, resorts, municipalities, and other governmental entities. We have been influential in participating on our clients' behalf in the definition of several states' environmental rules and policies, and construction and insurance regulation.

We offer comprehensive assistance with today’s challenging workforce issues, including internal employment policies; labor and union negotiations; construction project labor agreements; employment contracts, compensation, and benefits, workers' compensation, and responses to employee claims and charges.

In addition, we can provide you with counseling and interpretation of complex insurance coverage issues that often arise in the construction context.