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Architects and engineers are frequently confronted with a multiplicity of complex legal issues. On a daily basis, design professionals require assistance with contract drafting and negotiations. Increasingly, design professionals also face allegations that design errors and omissions caused construction delays, cost overruns, construction defects or project failures. Occasionally, an individual design professional must respond to licensure board investigations and complaints.
Macdonald Devin assists design professionals by providing advice and counsel in reviewing written agreements, and rendering guidance on risk avoidance and assessment as design professionals contemplate submitting project proposals. When disputes arise, Macdonald Devin excels in defending architects and engineers in lawsuits, arbitrations, and licensing board actions wherein design professionals are accused of professional malpractice, breach of contract, or violations of licensure rules and regulations.
Macdonald Devin represents large, national, multi-disciplinary architectural-engineering firms with multi-million dollar commercial and federal and state governmental projects as well as smaller, regional firms and individuals designing residential or municipal jobs. Our clients also include engineering firms in all disciplines, including structural, civil, mechanical electrical and plumbing (MEP), and geotechnical engineering. Macdonald Devin lawyers possess detailed and thorough knowledge and understanding of the technical and business issues facing today's architects and engineers, whether those issues involve accuracy or detail of drawings and specifications, responding to RFIs and ASIs, submittal and shop drawing review, value engineering challenges, site observation or punch list concerns, and forensic analysis of defects and repair plans. We work closely with design professional clients in a team-oriented, proactive and creative approach to help solve problems promptly and economically, priding ourselves on responsive, clear and candid answers to our client's questions. That is why major professional liability carriers engage Macdonald Devin to defend their insureds in errors and omissions claims and the world's most well-respected design firms call on Macdonald Devin for assistance with their legal challenges.
ATTORNEYS WITH EXPERIENCE IN THIS PRACTICE AREA David M. Macdonald | 214.651.3300 | dmacdonald@macdonalddevin.com Amy S. Harris | 214.651.3323 | aharris@macdonalddevin.com Gregory N. Ziegler | 214.651.3325 | gziegler@macdonalddevin.com Jason A. Burris | 214.651.3359 | jburris@macdonalddevin.com William I. Gardner | 214-651-3331 | bgardner@macdonalddevin.com Matthew R. Mumm | 214.651.3315 | mmumm@macdonalddevin.com Bryan G. Rutherford | 214.651.3305 | brutherford@macdonalddevin.com |
