Real Estate Transactions

Schiff Hardin has particular depth in assisting clients with construction projects, from the initial planning stage and continuing through design, to the actual construction and post-construction matters.

Such counsel can involve a wide variety of matters, including:

• Advising on the form of project delivery — such as design-build, fast-track and multi-prime
• Negotiating design and construction contracts
• Change order management
• Construction delay claims
• Design defects in architectural and engineering systems
• Mechanics' liens
• Warranty issues
• Insurance issues
• Environmental concerns
• Labor law issues
• Contractor's default and insolvency
• Coordination of various agency code requirements

We have particular expertise, too, in dispute avoidance, including the use of team building, as well as the use of construction mediation, arbitration, and other alternative dispute resolution processes.