Construction Law Attorneys
Grant Konvalinka & Harrison’s construction attorneys advise and represent the businesses and professionals that develop, design, build, supply, and insure construction projects.
Construction projects create legal and financial risk at every stage—from property acquisition and contract negotiation through performance, payment, closeout, warranty, and claims. An unclear scope of work, incomplete design, missed notice, disputed change order, schedule impact, or unpaid application for payment can quickly threaten a project’s progress and profitability. From contract formation through project completion, attorneys at Grant Konvalinka & Harrison help clients identify those risks early, preserve their rights, and resolve disputes efficiently when they arise.
We represent owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors, specialty trades, architects, engineers, suppliers, manufacturers, municipalities, sureties, insurers, and other construction-industry participants. We understand the project documents and technical evidence that drive construction matters, including plans and specifications, project schedules, submittals, requests for information, change orders, payment applications, job-cost records, daily reports, and scheduling and critical-path analyses. That industry knowledge allows us to address technical and commercial issues quickly and develop a strategy suited to the project and the client’s business objectives.
Construction Lawyers
Our lawyers advise construction-industry clients throughout the life cycle of a construction business and the projects it undertakes—from business formation, licensing, bidding, and contract negotiation through active performance, payment, closeout, warranty, and claims. We provide timely counsel as issues arise in the field and represent clients in direct negotiations, site inspections and investigations, administrative proceedings, mediation, arbitration, litigation, and trial. Whether protecting payment rights, defending a defect claim, prosecuting a delay claim, or helping a client avoid a dispute, our focus remains practical: preserve the client’s legal position, manage exposure, and keep its business moving. Because construction disputes are business problems as well as legal problems, our advice accounts for project deadlines, cash flow, ongoing commercial relationships, available insurance coverage, and the cost of resolution
Practical Counsel Throughout the Construction Process
Our construction attorneys counsel and represent clients in matters involving:
- Business formation, procurement, and project planning: Advising construction businesses concerning entity formation, ownership and operating agreements, licensure, joint ventures, bidding requirements, public procurement, project-delivery methods, and preconstruction risk.
- Construction contracts and risk allocation: Drafting, reviewing, modifying, and negotiating prime contracts, subcontracts, design agreements, purchase orders, consulting agreements, indemnity provisions, insurance requirements, warranties, and dispute-resolution provisions.
- Project counseling and contract administration: Advising during performance concerning notice requirements, scope questions, project documentation, change management, payment issues, schedule impacts, and claim development.
- Payment, lien, and bond claims: Prosecuting and defending claims involving unpaid contract balances, retainage, mechanics’ and materialmen’s liens, payment bonds, performance bonds, and other payment remedies.
- Delay and change-order disputes: Handling claims involving delay, acceleration, disruption, loss of productivity, differing site conditions, scope gaps, disputed additional work, and liquidated damages.
- Construction defect and design claims: Prosecuting and defending claims involving defective or incomplete work, water intrusion, structural issues, code compliance, material and product failures, warranty obligations, incomplete design documents, and professional negligence.
- Defaults, termination, and closeout: Advising concerning default and cure notices, suspension, supplementation, termination, takeover, completion costs, punch-list disputes, warranty obligations, and final payment.
- Insurance, indemnity, licensing, and regulatory matters: Addressing contractual indemnity, additional-insured requirements, construction-related insurance coverage, licensing, permitting, and regulatory compliance.
- Dispute resolution and litigation: Representing clients in direct negotiations, mediation, arbitration, litigation, and trial, including complex disputes involving multiple parties, technical experts, substantial claimed damages, and extensive project records.
Construction Law in Tennessee
Experience Across Projects and Industries
Our construction practice serves clients involved in a broad range of projects, including:
- Commercial and mixed-use developments
- Industrial and manufacturing facilities
- Civil, site-development, and infrastructure work
- Residential and multifamily developments or renovations
- Hospitality, restaurants, and tourism
- Logistics and distribution
- Developments
- Designs
- Sports, recreation, and specialty-surface projects
- Adaptive-reuse projects and specialized tenant improvements
- Trades, suppliers, vendors, and subcontracting
- Public and state projects
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