Associate Attorney - Construction Law

Job Description

Job Description

Specific skills sought are:

• 3-5 years of experience handling construction contract claims, public and private, as opposed to construction defect work experience;
• Experience with arbitration and at least exposure to preparing a case for trial/arbitration including actually participating in an arbitration or trial;
• Knowledge and experience of mechanic’s lien, law, stop notices, bid protests, public contract law, prompt payment law and payment and performance bonds;
• Knowledge and experience working on construction claims for contract extras, delay damages, impact damages, assessment of liquidated damages and substantive law surrounding these issues;
• Knowledge of alternate project delivery methods;
• Deposition experience both as to percipient witnesses and expert witnesses in the substantive areas of construction claims and law and motion experience involving substantive law and discovery issues;
• Experience putting together discovery plans and executing same;
• Excellent writing skills; motions, depositions, and letters regarding construction litigation issues; 
• Ability to handle and manage, with supervision and oversight, preparing and responding to written discovery and conducting depositions;
• Ability to interface with the client and convey a level of professionalism and competence in terms of both the legal issues and the strategic practical issues in construction litigation; 
• Willingness and ability to take ownership of a matter and ability to develop a course of action; 
• Self-starter and excellent follow-through skills;