Overview
Our construction group provides legal services on all aspects of construction, including pre-bid considerations; contract drafting and letting; construction administration; liens; bonds; insurance; and dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration, settlement, and trial. We have experience in projects such as office buildings, condominiums, water treatment plants, power plants, airports, schools, highways, subdivisions, solid waste disposal plants, residential or apartment developments, process plants, arenas, stadiums, convention centers, hotels, and other special-use facilities. Lawyers within the group focus on areas such as delay claim analysis, construction defects, differing site conditions, and design professional liability. Every day, we work closely with design professionals, forensic and accounting experts, engineers, and our clients to achieve the best possible outcomes in all phases of the construction process.
We seek to help our clients avoid disputes, but when claims arise, we focus on achieving the most effective, efficient resolutions. At every stage of the litigation or dispute resolution process, we prosecute or defend claims vigorously. Our group has extensive mediation and arbitration experience, as well as experience managing and litigating major construction cases in the judicial setting at both the trial and appellate levels.
Representative Clients
- Public and private developers and owners
- General contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers
- Homebuilders
- Design professionals
- Condominium associations
- Sureties
- Insurers and insureds (in the defense of construction risk claims
Industry Leadership
Our attorneys regularly lecture and write on topical construction law issues. They are leaders and active members in many construction-related professional associations, including:
- American Bar Association’s Forum on Construction Law
- American College of Construction Lawyers
- American Bar Association’s Fidelity and Surety Law Committee of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section
- Surety Claims Institute
- Associated Builders and Contractors
- Associated General Contractors
- Construction Financial Management Association
- Local bar association construction law committees
- Several of our attorneys are members of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers
Recognition
- Carlton Fields is ranked No. 18 nationally in Construction Executive's "Top 50 Construction Law Firms" list.
- Carlton Fields' construction practice earned a national first-tier ranking in the U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms 2023 guide, and is consistently ranked in Chambers USA.
- Nine construction practice group attorneys are board certified in construction law by the Florida Bar.
Sources praise the firm, with peers saying, "When we've got cases with Carlton Fields, we have to outwork them because we can't outsmart them."