Construction Law

Construction is a tough business. Fierce competition. Tight budgets. Aggressive schedules. High risk with razor-thin margins.

Today, the construction industry needs counselors and advocates who understand construction -- lawyers who can help minimize risks, protect legal rights and preserve your company’s bottom line. With skilled construction attorneys across the region, we provide advice and solutions that are beyond measure.

Frost Brown Todd is dedicated to serving the legal needs of the construction industry. We hope you find this blog interesting and useful. For further information regarding the Construction Law Group or to pursue legal representation, please contact any of our attorneys.

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Focused Services for Contractors

Day after day, we provide CMs, GCs and trade and specialty contractors with the innovative legal solutions they need to protect their interests and preserve their bottom line, including:

  • Risk management/best practices counseling and training
  • Claims and dispute resolution (including detect and schedule impact claims)
  • Contract negotiation, review and counseling 
  • Bid disputes
  • Mechanics' liens and payments disputes
  • Mediation and arbitration (as advocates and neutrals)
  • Litigation
  • Insurance counseling and claims
  • Surety bond counseling and claims

Legal Leverage for Contractors

We are an active business partner with our clients to help them succeed. We're able to work across disciplines and across the map -- providing contractors a full range of legal services to cover every aspect of their business situations, including:
  • Labor/employment
  • Worker's compensation
  • OSHA
  • Environmental
  • Immigration
  • Real estate/commercial development
  • Business/corporate
  • Estate/succession planning

Connected to the Construction Industry

To stay current on issues affecting our construction clients, we are active members of local, regional, and national construction trade and bar associations, including:
  • Allied Construction Industries (AGC Cincinnati)
  • American Bar Association (Forum on Construction Industry; Construction Litigation Subsection; Fidelity and Surety Law Committee)
  • Associated Builders and Contractors (Indiana, Kentuckiana, Middle Tennessee)
  • Associated General Contractors (Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee)
  • Builders Association of Greater Indianapolis
  • Building Contractors Association of Northeastern Indiana
  • Builders Exchange of Central Ohio
  • Cincinnati and Columbus Bar Associations (Construction Law Committees)
  • Design Build Institute of America (Indiana Chapter)
  • Indiana Builders Association
  • Indiana Construction Association (f/k/a Associated General Contractors of Indiana and Indiana Construction Industry)
  • Indiana Construction Round Table
  • Indiana State Bar Association (Construction and Surety Law Section)
  • Kentucky Bar Association (Section on Construction and Public Contract Law)
  • Ohio Contractors Association
  • Surety Association of Indiana

Peer Group Recognition

Several members of our team are also recognized by independent evaluators and peer groups for the service we provide to our clients. In fact, Chambers USA: America's Best Business Lawyers has ranked us as the top Construction Firm in Cincinnati for the fourth straight year and Best Lawyers in America ranked us first in Indiana for Construction Law. Other awards include:
  • The Best Lawyers in America
  • Indiana Super Lawyers
  • Indiana Super Lawyers: Rising Stars
  • Ohio Super Lawyers
  • Ohio Super Lawyers: Rising Stars
  • Martindale-Hubbell AV rating ("very high to preeminent legal ability"; "very high ethical standards")

Our Clients

Frost Brown Todd has built long-term relationships with dozens of top construction firms across the region. These clients range from smaller entrepreneurial contractors to several of the larger contractors and specialty contractors in the country (as ranked by Engineering News-Record) such as Turner Construction Company and Baker Concrete Construction.

Our Work

We represent contractors locally, regionally and across the country on a wide variety of matters of all sizes and levels of complexity. We are currently representing several specialty contractors in the Kenwood Towne Place foreclosure litigation and several specialty contractors in claims involving The Ascent project.

Contractor Education/Resources

We regularly present best practices and training seminars for construction clients and trade associations on topics ranging from risk management, claims avoidance, and project documentation to key contract issues, design build contracting and how to get paid. Each year, hundreds of contractors attend our Contractor's Law Series of seminars co-sponsored by leading construction trade associations.

Construction Law Articles

We regularly publish articles in construction trade journals and other publications on topics ranging from "Help in Getting Paid: Ohio's Mechanics' Lien Law" to "What Happens When the Owner Doesn't Pay? -- Pay-When-Paid Clauses."

Other Articles
  • Help in Getting Paid: Ohio's Mechanics' Lien Law
  • What Happens When the Owner Doesn't Pay? - Pay-When-Paid Clauses
  • Thinking About Terminating a Subcontractor? - Here are a Few Things to Consider
  • Commercial Surety Indemnity Agreement Issues
  • Liability Issues and Challenges of Green Building
  • Stonewalled: New Interpretation of Indiana Residential Code Removes Alternative for Builders
  • Ohio's Fairness in Construction Contracting Act
  • Ohio's New Design-Build and Seal Law
  • A Few Suggestions for Avoiding and Minimizing Claims
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques: Resolving Disputes Without Going to War
  • Predicting When Construction Contracts are Subject to Article 2 of the UCC Construction Management Scheduling Liability
  • Kentucky Appeals Court Uphold "No Damage for Delay" Clause
  • Choosing The Appropriate Construction Project Delivery System
  • Thinking About A New Building Project? Here Are A Few Things To Consider

Service Area Contact(s)

  • D. Scott Gurney

    513.651.6841

Legal Spotlight

Construction Law News

The Construction Law Group at Frost Brown Todd has created a blog with up-to-the-minute news and information for busy construction professionals:

Construction Law News

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