Clients who must pursue or defend defective construction disputes need attorneys who can work together to draw upon their collective experience with such disputes. Powell Goldstein's attorneys not only have this experience, they work together to ensure that our clients benefit from the breadth and depth of our construction litigation team's experience. Our attorneys have represented owners, design professionals, design builders, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers in numerous disputes involving defective construction.

Representative Matters: 

• Represented an apartment complex owner in defective design and additional cost claims against the designer/builder
• Represented owners and housing authorities in cases in which individuals claimed they were injured due to exposure to mold allegedly resulting from design and construction defects, including the very favorable resolution of a putative class action lawsuit
• Represented three of the largest home builders in the Southeast in numerous defective design and construction disputes
• Represented a hotel property owner/manager in a successful mediation that consolidated seven lawsuits filed in four states involving defective construction and payment claims in excess of $100 million
• Represented a hotel property owner/manager in multi-state, multi-jurisdictional litigation involving defective construction, change, and delay claims in excess of $80 million
• Represented two design-build cold storage contractors in defective construction and payment litigation in various jurisdictions across the Southeast
• Represented a design firm in multi-billion dollar litigation over the collapse of a steel structure that caused fatalities
• Represented a Georgia military preparatory school in the successful resolution of defective construction claims related to the school's $100 million campus renovation
• Represented a Finnish construction corporation in $50 million litigation against a paper manufacturing company and its design professional regarding defective design and construction of a new pulp manufacturing plant
• Successfully negotiated subcontractor delay and cost-efficiency claims on a public school project
• Represented heavy civil contractors in pursuit of $25 million claims against a state highway department for changes, delays and disruption
• Represented a utility contractor in a bid protest against a municipal government for a system-wide utility overhaul contract
• Represented a multi-national, heavy civil construction company in litigation against a workers' compensation carrier firm for mishandling claims