practice areas
Construction
For over four decades, Severson & Werson’s construction attorneys have faithfully served the design and construction industries and successfully and efficiently resolved all kinds of construction problems and disputes. The firm’s lawyers have formed particularly strong alliances with members of the design professional community – architects, engineers, land surveyors, geologists and others – and those professionals’ liability insurers, specializing in and even helping to develop this important area of practice, but have also represented innumerable general contractors, subcontractors, owners, construction managers, material suppliers, product manufacturers, lenders and other participants in design and construction processes.
The firm has over twenty lawyers in the Construction Practice Group in all, working from offices throughout California. The firm’s attorneys employ a practical, problem-oriented approach to effectively and efficiently resolve all matters of construction disputes, including delay and disruption claims, changed conditions claims, land use disputes, defective performance claims, claims for failure of payment, copyright claims and disputes, claims for personal injury, regulatory issues, and claims and disputes relating to mechanic’s liens and design professional liens. Several of the firm’s lawyers in the Construction Practice Group each have decades of experience focusing on construction law, serving as general counsel to dozens of design and construction firms and having lectured nationally and received awards and other similar recognition for their achievements and specialized knowledge and skill.
The Construction Practice Group’s attorneys assist their design and construction clients in virtually all aspects of their businesses, working in risk management, transactional counseling and negotiation, strategic planning, collections and all types of dispute resolution, including traditional litigation, mediation and numerous other forms. The firm’s construction lawyers help their clients in every stage and phase of design and construction processes, from preplanning phases, up through and during active projects and, of course, in the post-construction context, defending claims and resolving other design- and construction-related disputes. Their work has been in connection with a wide range of projects, including manufacturing facilities, energy generation facilities, municipal works, hospitals, hotels, airports, transportation projects, commercial high-rises, dams, pipelines, prisons, geothermal projects, and of course all kinds of residential projects.
