Construction clients benefit from having lawyers who understand the construction and design industries.  Simply put, our lawyers have mastered the construction and design business, and our firm is widely recognized as a leader in construction litigation and arbitration as a result.  Moreover, many of our dedicated and experienced construction lawyers either have engineering or architectural degrees or are former real estate developers, military officers, or plant managers.

Our broad knowledge base powers our thorough record of service to the construction and design industries.  Lewis Thomason works closely with clients to identify, solve, and prevent problems in all phases of the construction process.  During the design and planning phase, we represent owners and contractors before zoning boards and planning commissions.  Throughout the construction process, we help clients with drafting and negotiating agreements with contractors and subcontractors, design professionals, and service providers.  We have also defended claims in both state and federal courts involving construction defects, project-critical path delays, payment, differing site conditions, acceleration, lost productivity, and other claims.

In addition to the decades of experience in our construction practice group, our firm’s attorneys are active in the Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel, the American Bar Association’s construction law committees, the Construction Industry Panel of the American Arbitration Association, and design and construction industry organizations like the Associated Builders & Contractors, Associated General Contractors, American Institute of Architects, Construction Specifications Institute, Tennessee Association of Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling Contractors, and Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers.  Our attorneys also regularly present seminars and publish the Tennessee Construction Law Journal, an online newsletter, and the informative construction industry Blog, Tennessee Construction Lawyers.  Several of our construction clients have retained us as general counsel, and, under our retainer agreements with them, we provide office hours to address and answer construction-related questions.

Architect, Engineer, and Surveyor Professional Liability

Lewis Thomason attorneys have defended design professionals in hundreds of professional malpractice cases, including multi-million-dollar claims involving major sporting arenas in Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville.  Our firm has represented contractors in numerous disputes arising from a variety of claims, including alleged construction defects, project critical path delays, payment, differing site conditions, acceleration, and lost productivity.

We also represent contractors and design professionals before licensing boards, including applying for licensure and navigating professional discipline hearings and appeals.  Our attorneys have also had significant involvement in federal, state, and local government construction project disputes and claims, and we represent owners and sureties in matters from simple claims to major project defaults.

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