Design-Build Projects: Key Issues; Drafting to Mitigate Risk for Contractors, Design Professionals, and Owners

Mr. Leonelli focuses his practice on strategic counseling and dispute resolution in the areas of construction and engineering, manufacturing and supply, energy (conventional and renewable), and commercial disputes. Justin takes pride in providing results-oriented legal solutions to help clients navigate complex challenges, mitigate risk, and secure favorable outcomes. As a part of his construction practice, Mr. Leonelli represents owners and contractors on public and private construction projects globally. He services his clients through all project phases as both project counsel and litigation counsel. Mr. Leonelli also assists clients in negotiating supply agreements and navigating manufacturing-related disputes. He has significant experience with domestic and international supply issues that implicate both the UCC and United Nations Convention on Contracts.

Mr. Wickard is a construction lawyer, concentrating his practice on dispute resolution, construction contract negotiation, and public procurement. He has a very active procurement practice, handling local, state, and federal bid protest proceedings throughout the country and advising clients on a multitude of issues that arise during and after the procurement process. He also has familiarity with public records and sunshine acts and routinely assists clients obtain public records or maintain the confidentiality of their own information submitted to public agencies. Mr. Wickard’s litigation practice includes representing clients in disputes subject to arbitration, before a number of state and federal courts and before government agencies with respect to a wide variety of matters. He has extensive construction litigation experience and has represented owners, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, engineers, and architects in various disputes involving scheduling, delay, inefficiency claims, defective work, mechanics’ liens, prompt payment claims, bond and insurance claims. Mr. Wickard also has a very active construction transaction practice. He drafts, negotiates and advises on all types of construction and design contracts. He has extensive experience with all AIA contract forms. He has drafted and negotiated numerous construction and design contracts for a wide variety of domestic and international projects.

Ms. Wolfe practices in the firm’s Construction and Infrastructure Practice Group, focusing on assisting clients with a variety of contract and construction disputes. These disputes involve a range of issues, including those related to design and construction defect, warranty, termination, disruption and delay, regulatory and code violations, interconnection, licensing, liens, leases, tenancy, and payment. She has handled issues in the energy industry related to coal, natural gas, onshore wind, offshore wind, solar, geothermal, and other projects. In addition, she has worked on issues for clients in the manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, finance, technology, and hospitality industries. Ms. Wolfe has significant experience in U.S. federal and state courts as well as in arbitrations seated in the U.S. and around the world, taking her client’s disputes through jury trials, bench trials, and final hearings. She leverages this experience in tandem with her industry knowledge to craft a litigation and dispute resolution approach intended to put her clients in a position to achieve effective resolutions and satisfy their business goals, whether that means achieving favorable settlements, securing precedent-setting decision, or taking the case to a tribunal or jury.