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Construction & Engineering
The construction industry is inherently risky. But the risks can be managed. On a successful project, risks are allocated efficiently, and challenges are managed effectively.
Sound legal advice plays an essential role in anticipating, allocating and managing risks. Our Construction & Engineering Group applies our experience with a wide range of construction projects across all sectors of the economy to help clients allocate and manage risks that are specific to their projects.
Our group provides advice at all stages of a project, but at the group’s core is a team of lawyers who thrive on the resolution of disputes. This team draws on the experience and expertise of other groups in our firm, who provide advice in health law, administrative and regulatory law, commercial litigation, and real estate, to name a few. The result is a team that is experienced in more than just construction law, and one that understands your business and all the issues at play in the dispute.
Construction & Engineering Services
Typical services we offer:
- Risk management & loss prevention
- Contract drafting & review
- Assisting parties with nuisance claims including bringing or defending injunctions to stop specific activities on construction projects
- Assisting clients in disputes with municipalities and provincial governments in respect to the enforcement of bylaws, statutes and regulations
- Providing advice with respect to environmental and pollution issues which arise during construction projects
- Assisting owners and claimants with builders' liens
- Assisting owners, contractors, and consultants with fee disputes, construction defects and delay claims
- Providing advice in respect to insurance disputes relating to the duty to defend, coverage, and overlapping policies
- Defending architects, engineers and construction professionals accused of professional negligence/breach of contract
- Bringing and defending product liability claims
Litigation Support & E-Discovery Services
Because of its intangible form, transience and volume, electronic information needs to be treated differently than its paper counterparts.
To make matters even more challenging, the data is saved in multiple forms and in multiple places — from traditional file storage to email servers, the Web, smart phones, and other locations. When litigation arises, the task of preserving, collecting, processing, and reviewing this data can be daunting and expensive.
The Litigation Support & E-Discovery Services Department works in tandem with our lawyers in managing all electronically stored information data files and large-scale litigation. Our litigation support professionals manage the technical challenges of the e-discovery life cycle, which allows our lawyers to focus on reviewing and presenting the most relevant documents.
The investigative processes associated with e-discovery can be more complex and time sensitive than in other legal matters. Using our proven and cutting-edge technologies, our litigation support professionals identify key documents and facts to assist our lawyers in developing the strongest possible case In addition, our Litigation Support & E-Discovery team advises on data management issues before litigation arises and provides efficient and economical solutions to control e-discovery costs after litigation develops.
Services
- Data management strategies
- Metadata discovery and analysis
- Data remediation
- Litigation support and dispute resolution
- Information organization
- Records & risk management
Practice Group Partners
Steven Abramson*
Partner
Aaron D. Atkinson
Partner
Cameron B. Elder*
Partner
Jonathan D. Meadows*
Managing Partner
Joel A. Morris*
Partner
Christopher Rusnak, KC*
Partner
Select Cases
Assisted a municipality with the enforcement of its bylaws
Assisted a municipality with the enforcement of its bylaws relating to damage to its property during construction activity by a developer
Represented an architectural firm
Represented an architectural firm in a case involving a dispute regarding its intellectual property.
Represented a professional engineer in an appeal hearing
Represented a professional engineer in an appeal hearing against the Association of Professional Engineers of the Yukon and successfully overturned disciplinary findings.
Represented a professional architect in an appeal hearing
Represented a professional architect in an appeal hearing against the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and successfully overturned disciplinary findings.
Successfully defended a local structural engineering firm
Successfully defended a local structural engineering firm in a case involving design and construction deficiencies in a school.
Represented architects in the first leaky condominium case
Represented architects in the first leaky condominium case to proceed to a full trial, and successfully negotiated a discontinuance of the claims against an architect prior to the trial.
$3 million dispute
$3 million dispute over costs incurred due to delay arising from the failure of a proposed residential subdivision development in a northern British Columbia community. We acted for an engineering firm involved in the development.
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