The Construction and Public Contracts Department of Gibbs, Giden, Locher, Turner & Senet LLP provides legal guidance and counseling to clients at every stage of a construction project. GGLTS has extensive experience in virtually every type of construction project, including airports, power plants, hospitals, major sports venues, office buildings, correctional facilities, retail locations, major residential projects, universities, courthouses, petrochemical plants, dams, pipelines, and wastewater and water treatment facilities. We have represented public and private owners, design professionals, general contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers with respect to almost every conceivable circumstance that can arise before, during, and after completion of a construction project.

GGLTS attorneys provide a wide variety of construction services, including:

• Analysis and drafting of contract documents and bid packages involving not only traditional project delivery relationships, but also alternative systems such as design-build, construction manager/multiple prime contractors, joint ventures, partnering, and continuously evolving variations fashioned by the industry to finance, design, and construct projects.
  
• Counseling with respect to claims avoidance and resolution procedures, risk management, insurance, and bonding requirements.
  
• Contract acquisition matters, including debarment, suspensions, bid protests, and competitive negotiations.
  
• Project management assistance, including contract administration and interpretation during performance, documentation of disputes, informal negotiations with project management, and project close-out.
  
• Claims and change order documentation, preparation, and presentation.
  
• Alternative dispute resolution in a variety of forums, including administrative boards and agencies, private mediations, arbitrations, and mini-trials.
  
• Litigation before both federal and state courts and administrative agencies involving virtually every type of performance issue, including delay, impact and acceleration claims, construction defects, design errors, cost overruns, and regulatory compliance.

Not all construction issues are of equal complexity or value. Therefore, GGLTS is structured to provide our clients with whatever level of service required, adding value at each level. For example, some of our attorneys have developed a streamlined practice to efficiently enforce statutory mechanic's lien, stop notice, and payment bond rights. Others are skilled in assembling a team of attorneys, paralegals, and consultants necessary to handle highly complex and document intensive construction disputes. In addition to the lawyers and paralegals in our firm, our office has developed relationships with outside consultants with construction, architectural, engineering, and accounting expertise who assist us in the evaluation of construction claims and the preparation of technical analyses. We have found that both our expertise and reputation have facilitated the resolution of disputes on every type of project at the earliest possible time with favorable outcomes for our clients.

GGLTS has litigated numerous delay and disruption cases, including the construction of various Metro Rail Transit projects, the Port of Long Beach, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, San Francisco International Airport, John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Kaiser Riverside Medical Center, Los Angeles County Central Jail Expansion Project, Southeast Resource Recovery Facility in Long Beach, the Space Shuttle launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant in Los Angeles, Coso Geothermal Plant located near China Lake, and the Aladdin and Venetian Hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada.

We have successfully represented numerous public agencies and contractors in bid protests, affirmative action issues, subcontractor listing law disputes, and other administrative proceedings.

GGLTS takes pride in handling all aspects of construction projects, from conception to completion. We assist many public agencies in proactively planning and managing their projects to ensure that they are delivered on time and within budget. These projects include the Diamond Valley Lake constructed by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Alameda Corridor project running between the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and downtown Los Angeles, and the expansion of the Anaheim Convention Center.

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