practice areas
Litigation
Severson & Werson’s core practice, historically, is litigation and the attorneys in the Construction Practice Group are proven, effective and successful litigators. They are familiar with the courts, judges, and jury pools as well as the best experts and most effective strategies for trials of design and construction cases. Civil litigation, culminating in trials by jury and/or judge, continues to be the most common vehicle for resolution of design and construction claims in California and several of the firm’s construction attorneys have decades of experience successfully defending design and construction professionals in such cases. Although construction disputes often should and do resolve prior to trial through settlement or summary adjudication, Severson’s construction attorneys know that almost every case has the potential of being tried to a judge or jury. Moreover, positioning a case for successful presentation at trial is often the most effective way to steer a dispute toward a favorable pre-trial resolution. These realities require a comprehensive approach from the inception of a matter which takes into account all of the factors which make a particular case most successfully tried and which otherwise bear on its orderly and efficient resolution. The firm’s construction attorneys successfully carry out this approach for each of their clients’ cases. While handling such matters as efficiently as possible, the firm’s construction attorneys are prepared to try and do try their clients’ cases when necessary.
