Construction SuperConference 2017

Jim Doerfler
Counsel in Pittsburgh
Reed Smith LLP


Jim has a diverse practice involving a broad range of commercial, industrial and energy-related litigation and transactional matters. His practice regularly involves project counsel work for private and public commercial and industrial construction projects. He regularly drafts and negotiates commercial owner-contractor, owner-construction manager and/or owner-architect agreement documents for his clients. Recent large-scale transactional project counsel experience has involved a central role in the planning, drafting and negotiation of the program management, design-build construction and equipment supply agreements for a major new “greenfield” automotive manufacturing facility in the Southeastern United States for a European automotive manufacturer. His drafting role has included both custom-drafted agreements and adapted or modified versions of industry-standard construction contract forms, including the American Institute of Architects (AIA), ConsensusDOCs and the Engineer Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC) templates. He has drafted or negotiated agreements for commercial office building, university dormitory/student housing projects, and industrial and manufacturing facilities. Representative litigation cases in the construction sector have involved construction payment, defect and/or delay claims regarding power plants, steel mills, pharmaceutical plants, wastewater treatment facilities, pipeline projects, schools, courthouses and commercial office buildings. Jim has been a presenter and/or author on the subjects of public-private partnerships (P3) in Pennsylvania, public procurement compliance issues, AIA contract documents, and mechanics lien matters and is a member of ABA Forum on Construction Law.

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