CONSTRUCTION LAW

Hermes, Netburn, O’Connor & Spearing, P.C.’s construction law practice involves all aspects of representing and advising developers, contractors and subcontractors in planning and constructing projects and negotiating and drafting contracts.  The firm provides corporate, real estate and business legal services to its clients and, where necessary, represents its clients with respect to their construction-related disputes and litigation.  The attorneys at the firm are well versed in applicable legal and trade standards for and the means and methods of preparing, analyzing and critiquing claims including the use of the critical path method of analysis.   

Our attorneys have vast experience in representing clients in various types of both private and public construction projects ranging from major office towers and complexes such as the John Hancock Building, 111 Huntington Avenue and the 3Com Corporate Campus, to major additions, renovations and modernizations of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Charles River Complex.  The firm has been involved with large, multi-unit residential complexes such as The Belvedere at The Prudential Center project, as well as projects constructed for Massachusetts housing authorities and public works departments, such as road building, utility installation and sewer construction and HUD-funded or financed projects involving historic tax credits.  Our work has included both new construction and renovation projects.

The firm has two basic goals in this area of practice.  The first is to avoid conflicts and disputes by proactive planning, contract drafting and negotiation.  The second is to quickly resolve the disputes and problems that inevitably arise.  To this end, the firm takes aggressive and immediate steps to resolve conflicts and disputes to minimize or eliminate interference with our clients’ business goals.  Our goal is to ensure that our clients are able to conduct their business operations without costly delay and interference because of disputes and litigation.