Why
Do You Need a Lawyer for Your Prestigious Home Project?
Under
this Plan, an experienced project lawyer will assist you to discover and
confront the tricky legal issues of building your own prestige custom
home project.
Construction
is one of the most complex transactions you can take on. It is
loaded with financial and legal risks and often ends in protracted
litigation.
An
experienced home project lawyer and other construction professionals
will focus on the issues necessary to ensure a successful project in
which you can be proud. You will also spend less money for your
home in the long run.
The
Prestigious Home Project Legal PlanSM
lawyer will provide expertise to:
·
Advise you whether sole source, conventional bid, construction
management, design-build, or fast-track is the most suitable approach
for your project.
·
Ensure proper environmental and permitting management. A missed
environmental risk by itself can doom your project.
·
Assist you to interview, evaluate, select, negotiate, draft,
monitor, and complete contracts for architects, constructors, and other
project participants. These are substantial contracts, and the
appropriate scopes of work, warranties, liability insurances,
performance and payment bonds, lien waivers, and
contractor/subcontractor financial arrangements must be put in place to
avoid your exposure to large financial and schedule risks later.
·
Manage and resolve the usual lien filings, contract changes, and
disputes that arise during the course of the construction. Progressive
dispute resolution provisions should bind all project participants, so
that creative, agreeable, and timely solutions occur without litigation.
·
Advise of potential and emerging legal issues impacting the
construction of your home
·
Engender team spirit versus litigious positions.
·
Assist in substantial renovations, which also require comprehensive
written contracts and many of the activities provided above.
Bruce
Beal has over 20 years of full time legal experience in areas of design,
engineering, and construction. He has worked with architects,
engineers, constructors, suppliers, subcontractors, and government
agencies in projects ranging in value from 100’s of thousands to
100’s of millions of dollars.
He
has legally participated in all types of construction projects,
including private and governmental, residential and commercial, sole
source and publicly bid, and large and small.
Under
this plan, fees
may be arranged upon a discounted hourly project basis, based upon ten
hours of services per month, or may be a
percentage of the project.
