

Our attorneys represent the construction industry from the beginning to the end of projects with the full range of legal challenges familiar to the industry, including contract disputes, financing, worksite injuries, employment and labor, workers' compensation, and surety and fidelity.
Overview
Through our industry-focused Construction Practice Group and broader practice groups, our attorneys represent a wide range of public and private entities, including:
- Owners
- Contractors
- Subcontractors
- Construction managers
- Others involved in the construction project process
Our legal services:
- We provide advice from the initial stage of pre-construction to completion of the project. We anticipate risks and determine appropriate means of resolving problems.
- We handle issues of contract administration that have both legal and financial implications.
- When construction disputes cannot be prevented or resolved through planning or negotiation, the Group is prepared for aggressive prosecution or vigorous defense. Our attorneys represent clients in many state and federal courts and state boards of contract appeals, as well as administrative agencies.
- Our surety attorneys represent a wide number of companies in contract surety, fidelity, and surety matters.
- Our casualty litigation attorneys handle construction accidents and construction-defect litigation. We have handled cases that include falls from and through scaffolding and other platforms, injuries from materials falling during construction demolition activities, and electrocutions.
- We also handle complex construction defect litigation in cases ranging from HVAC systems which are alleged to have been defectively installed to poor framing or inadequate footing and foundation issues. We also routinely handle issues dealing with indemnification and additional insured status.
- Our Employment and Workers’ Compensation attorneys work closely with the industry to meet the needs of employers and their workforce.
Related Practices
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
- Casualty Litigation
- Class Action Defense
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction
- Construction Defect/Injury Insurance Coverage
- Construction Defect/Injury Litigation
- Employment and Labor
- Energy & Utilities
- Environmental
- Environmental Real Estate Services
- Environmental Regulation and Litigation
- Higher Education
- Hospitality and Retail
- Insurance Law
- Internal Investigations & White Collar Defense
- Real Estate
- Regulatory and Administrative Agency Law
- Shale Resource
- Tax Controversy
- Workers' Compensation
Attorneys
Daniel S. Altschuler
Principal and Chair, Casualty Litigation Department
Member, Firm Board of Directors
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1107
Fax: 215-320-4143
Andrew J. Connolly
Principal
Chair, Construction Defect/Injury Litigation Practice Group
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1065
Fax: 215-320-4155
John W. Dornberger
Administrative Principal, Harrisburg Office
Co-Chair, Construction Government Contracts & Surety Practice Group
Harrisburg
Phone: 717-612-6037
Fax: 717-731-1985
John N. Joseph
Principal
Chair, Internal Investigations & White Collar Practice Group
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1191
Fax: 215-320-4190
Andrea M. Kirshenbaum
Principal
Chair, Wage and Hour Practice Group
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1126
Fax: 215-320-4711
Oliver C. Overlander III
Principal
Workers' Compensation
Lancaster
Phone: 717-391-4434
Fax: 717-291-1609
Christopher T. Chancler
Principal
Casualty Litigation
Mt. Laurel
Phone: 856-301-2587
Fax: 609-924-4144
Mason Avrigian Jr.
Principal
Co-Chair, Construction Government Contracts & Surety Practice Group
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1106
Mobile: (610) 574-6099
Fax: 215-320-4171
Jeffrey P. Wallack
Principal
Construction
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-6636
Mobile: (610) 716-4905
Fax: 215-320-4707
Michael W. Winfield
Principal, Construction
Co-Chair, Commercial Litigation Practice Group
Harrisburg
Phone: 717-612-6024
Fax: 717-731-1985
Jodi S. Wilenzik
Principal
Co-Chair, Commercial Litigation Practice Group
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1101
Fax: 215-320-4159
William L. Thrall III
Principal
Casualty Litigation
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1192
Fax: 215-320-4146
Leo Gerard Daly
Principal
Casualty Litigation
Pittsburgh
Phone: 412-506-6373
Mobile: 412-780-1124
Fax: 412-227-9065
Christopher D. Gee
Associate
Casualty Litigation
Pittsburgh
Phone: (412) 506-6367
Fax: (412) 506-6368
Robert G. Devine Jr.
Associate
Casualty Litigation
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1124
Fax: 215-587-1444
News & Insights
Related Practices
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
- Casualty Litigation
- Class Action Defense
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction
- Construction Defect/Injury Insurance Coverage
- Construction Defect/Injury Litigation
- Employment and Labor
- Energy & Utilities
- Environmental
- Environmental Real Estate Services
- Environmental Regulation and Litigation
- Higher Education
- Hospitality and Retail
- Insurance Law
- Internal Investigations & White Collar Defense
- Real Estate
- Regulatory and Administrative Agency Law
- Shale Resource
- Tax Controversy
- Workers' Compensation