Timothy R. Conway is a founding partner of Conway & Mrowiec, a five-lawyer Chicago firm which represents all participants in the construction process: contractors, design/builders, engineers, construction managers, trade contractors, architects, owners and sureties. Mr. Conway is a veteran of numerous arbitrations, trials, and mediations. He has represented builders on a wide variety of construction projects, both public and private. These projects have included power plants, monumental public projects, prisons, wastewater treatment plants, power plants, highways, railroad yards, hospitals, warehouses, high rise buildings, sports facilities, libraries and shopping centers throughout the United States.
Most recently, Mr. Conway arbitrated a dispute involving a dredging of a marina in the Bahamas; in a multi-week trial defended a structural engineer’s handling of shop drawings; and prosecuted a steel fabricator’s claims for additional costs on a project with complex structural design issues. Mr. Conway has represented two different telecommunications contractors in each case recovering millions of dollars under complex mechanics liens against bankrupt customers.
Mr. Conway was named as “Lawyer of the Year” for 2012 for Litigation – Construction in Chicago by Best Lawyers. Mr. Conway also was selected by his peers to Super Lawyers and holds a Martindale-Hubbell Rating of ‘AV Preeminent.’ Mr. Conway is a co-author of the chapter on general contractors’ lien rights in the leading publication on Illinois mechanics liens. He is a co-author of the chapter “BIM And Shared Design Risks for Structural Steel Contractors” in Shared Design, Wolters Kluwer Construction Law Library (2011 ed.), and co-author of the chapter “Scope Changes and Differing Site Conditions” in the Construction Litigation Dispute Handbook (IICLE 2013). Mr. Conway is a frequent speaker at construction industry seminars on new developments in construction law; design/build and construction management contracts and disputes; delay claims; the AIA family of construction documents; and mechanics lien and payment bond claims. More...
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