View All PracticesConstruction Law
Areas of Concentration
- Arbitration
- Bid protest matters
- Payment and Performance Bond claims
- Changed-condition claims
- Contract disputes
- Contract drafting and negotiating
- Construction accident
- Construction defect
- Construction finance negotiation and drafting
- Cost overruns
- CPM scheduling
- Delay claims
- Design defect
- Indemnity Claims
- Insurance coverage
- Land-use and development disputes
- Litigation
- Mechanics liens
- Mediation
- OSHA investigation and compliance
- Payment disputes
Adler Pollock & Sheehan’s Construction Law Group has extensive experience representing and advising clients in all aspects of construction litigation, contracting and financing.
Since the firm’s inception in 1960, we have successfully represented public and private owners, developers, contractors, design professionals, insurers and sureties in complex construction cases in state and federal courts, as well as in mediation and arbitration forums throughout New England and in numerous other states. The firm has handled matters involving all aspects of the construction process from land acquisition and project financing to post-construction litigation and claims settlement. Clients benefit from the firm’s considerable construction-industry knowledge and litigation experience, as well as our emphasis on obtaining results in a cost-effective manner.
Representative Matters
- We successfully defended the City of Providence, R.I., in Superior Court against a $4 million changed-conditions claim relating to a city pier construction. The decision was upheld on appeal by the state Supreme Court
- Favorably resolved case against temperature-control room supplier for catastrophic personal injuries and $20 million property damage claim arising from explosion at biotech laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Our successful work in arbitration for the Town of Coventry resulted in a minimal award against our client—substantially less than its prior settlement offer in a $1 million cost-overrun and changed-conditions dispute over a sewer project
- We successfully defended a national site contractor in a multi-party, $15-million lawsuit involving the Lynn Classical High School in Lynn, Massachusetts
- We are representing a generator supplier in the United States District for Massachusetts in a multi-million dollar delay-claim arising from a federal construction project in Columbus, Ohio
- For building products manufacturer Senergy, Inc., defendant in a $20 million defective product lawsuit, we filed a timely motion to dismiss that enabled our client to settle its liability for $350,000—only two percent of its exposure. Other defendants paid the balance of damages
- We are representing a liability insurer in connection with the 2006 scaffolding collapse at Emerson College in Boston, which resulted in three fatalities
- We have represented national lenders, including HSBC and Wells Fargo Bank, in connection with construction financing for residential, office and retail projects in Boston and throughout New England
- In a case involving faulty-septic system design and installation, we were successful in obtaining a $1 million settlement for a national residential-real estate developer
- We routinely represent contractors in obtaining payment through the enforcement of mechanics liens in Massachusetts state court
- We have successfully resolved multi-million dollar claims against EIFs installers in matters pending in Massachusetts state court, including the resolution of the related insurance coverage and indemnity issues
- We are representing the owner of large condominium development in a multi-million dollar construction defect claim
- We have routinely represented architects and engineers in design defect cases
- Represented an international product manufacturer in $5 million property damage claim involving a ruptured water line in the Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Represented surety in completion of multiple water treatment facilities throughout New England
- Represented surety in completion of FAA sound proofing projects at airports throughout the U.S. and subsequent collection of remaining contract funds.
Publications
- Rhode Island Section
- Rhode Island Section
