Best & Flanagan represents construction companies on sophisticated, technically demanding projects across the country. Our clients range from closely-held family businesses to publicly held and Fortune 100 companies, and include general contractors, prime contractors, and specialty subcontractors implementing multi-million-dollar scopes of work. We counsel clients on renewable energy systems, data centers, highways, bridges, infrastructure, professional sports stadiums, hospitality and senior-living projects, and industrial, retail and commercial facility projects. Our clients typically range between $20 million and $2 billion in annual revenues.
Established in 1926, we have represented clients on construction projects throughout the United States with most projects located from Minnesota to Texas and Colorado to Massachusetts.
How we work
We serve as outside general counsel for many of our construction clients counseling on pre-project risk management from contract reviews and negotiations, bid evaluations, specification and contract documentation analysis and mitigation of future claims.
If a claim arises on a construction project, we work collaboratively with our clients to develop and implement strategic outcomes taking into account the client’s best interests — including the cost, the timing, and the impact on important business relationships. We have represented numerous clients in arbitrations, litigation and appellate courts on projects throughout the United States.
What we do
On the advisory side, our work includes contract review, negotiation, and drafting (owner agreements, master service agreements, professional services, subcontracts, EPC, and design-build), bid strategy and bid protests, pre-construction risk review, and ongoing project counsel. Many engagements include the less visible but often decisive work of getting the notice provisions, change-order language, and documentation practices before a project breaks ground.
On the disputes side, our work includes construction defect claims, payment disputes, mechanic’s liens, bond claims, DOT/Corps claims, delay claims, performance claims, OSHA citations, property damage claims, and insurance coverage disputes. We represent clients in state and federal court, in mediation and arbitration, and government enforcement actions.
