Essential Counsel

Steve helps construction companies to profitably grow within an increasingly complex business environment of legislative, regulatory, and government oversight. He does this by working with client executives and senior management and leveraging deep legal and regulatory knowledge to ensure contracts serve as a relationship management tool that clearly articulates the client’s organizational philosophy, appetite for risk/opportunity, and relationship expectations within an intentional and agile contract framework design. He provides focused oversight on operational integration of the entire construction contract ecosystem from bid/quote stage involving negotiation and document preparation to award stage involving contract management strategies to post- contract stage involving payment and dispute resolution strategies that may require direct negotiation, mediation, and arbitration or litigation. Steve adds a unique perspective as someone who has worked on construction sites, taken construction cases to trial, litigated construction project defect and payment disputes in multiple jurisdictions, and having served in CLO & COO roles negotiating and preparing large scale construction contract documents.