Contractor Disputes

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Contractor Disputes in Louisiana

Disputes between contractors, subcontractors, owners, and other parties are common in construction projects. These conflicts can involve payment issues, scope of work disagreements, performance concerns, delays, or contract interpretation problems. Left unresolved, contractor disputes can halt progress, increase costs, and damage business relationships. We help clients address these disputes strategically, protecting their rights and working toward efficient resolutions under Louisiana law.

How We Can Help

Our contractor dispute services include:

  • Resolving payment and nonpayment issues

  • Interpreting and enforcing construction contracts

  • Handling scope of work disagreements and change order disputes

  • Addressing delay claims and performance issues

  • Representing clients in negotiations, mediation, arbitration, or litigation

Get Help with a
Contractor Dispute

Contractor disputes can quickly escalate, putting projects and finances at risk. We provide experienced legal guidance to resolve issues promptly and effectively, allowing clients to focus on completing their projects.

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Construction law builds upon general legal principles and methodologies and incorporates the regulatory framework (including security of payment, planning, environmental and building regulations); contract methodologies and selection (including traditional and alternative forms of contracting); subcontract issues; causes of action, and liability, arising in contract, negligence and on other grounds; insurance and performance security; dispute resolution and avoidance.

Construction law has evolved into a practice discipline in its own right, distinct from its traditional locations as a subpractice of project finance, real estate or corporate law. There are often strong links between construction law and energy law and oil and gas law.

Some of the major areas a construction lawyer covers are:

  • Alternative Dispute Resolutions
    • Arbitration
    • Dispute Review Boards (or other third party reviews)
    • Mediation
    • Structured negotiations
  • Bankruptcy issues for contractors, owners, suppliers, etc.
  • Bidding (tendering) disputes
  • Building and other permits
  • Building information modeling
  • Contract law
    • Change Orders (Variations)
    • Construction claims
    • Construction liens
    • Wage requirements (Davis-Bacon Act, etc.)
    • Payment and Prompt payments acts
    • Extensions of time
    • Drafting construction contracts
    • Industry-standard construction contracts
    • Negotiating construction contracts
    • Negotiating a termination claim, whether for convenience or for default
  • Defective design or construction
  • Delays and acceleration
  • Employment Law including Immigration
  • Environmental matters in construction
  • False Claims Act(s)
  • Fire codes and regulations
  • Fulfilling regulations for non-discrimination or other social impact legislation
  • Insurances issues
    • Damage, liability
    • Indemnification
    • Surety Law (Payment and Performance Bonds)
  • Labor issues and strikes
  • Licensing construction professionals
  • OSHA, and other federal agencies
  • Overinspection
  • Project delivery systems, such as design-bid-build, Design-Build, Construction Manager (CM) at Risk or Agency CM
  • Provide defense to businesses facing administrative actions such as delisting (loss of bid listing)
  • Provide legal counsel
  • Public construction
    • Federal construction under FAR or other regulated procurements
    • State contracting procedures
  • State and local building codes
  • Sustainable construction, e.g. LEED
  • Litigation: trying construction cases in court
  • Violations, safety or other regulatory