Chambers Review
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Construction - Scotland
What the Team is Known For
DWF offers a multifaceted construction service to public and private sector clients from across the UK and the EU. The firm acts on both contentious and non-contentious mandates in the education, residential, energy, public works and telecommunications sectors. It is capable of handling complex work such as cases involving insolvency and payment disputes, and those requiring professional appointments and innovative technical expertise.
Strengths
DWF has the resources and knowledge to navigate the ups and downs of construction disputes.
The construction advice they offer is thorough and exactly what is requested. It is helpful and set out in a way that is digestible for the wider non-legal team.
At DWF, they are practical, pragmatic, commercially focused and get the right points and deal with them quickly. They see what is relevant and what is not and deal with the important points.
Work Highlights
DWF acted for Noble, a contractor specialising in luxury residential projects, in a true value adjudication concerning their final account on a project in Cheshire.
Notable practitioners
Jonathan delivers an excellent service and has strong commercial awareness.
Jonathan is really good and a very smart lawyer who is easy to deal with.
Laura McCorquodale is recognised for her contentious construction experience. She regularly advices on a range of high-value construction disputes, including damage claims.
Laura is very good. She is honest, interested and she has a very good team around her. I have enjoyed working with her.
She is really nice and very enthusiastic.
Katherine Doran joint-leads the DWF Scottish construction team, focusing on high-value contentious matters for public and private sector clients from all around the world. She operates in the industrial, residential, commercial, sustainability, education, transport, mining and telecommunications sectors. In addition, she is adept at handling FIDIC and NEC3 contracts, as well as professional appointments for complex projects.
Katherine is not only a fantastically technical lawyer, she is a joy to work with. She explains complex issues in plain English and provides both commercial and practical solutions.
Katherine Doran is very approachable, always available and very enjoyable to work with. She understands her clients needs, but also understands what's needed at the other end of counsel.
Katherine is smart, clear, focused, easy to work with and has great written and oral works and advocacy skills. She knows what to do and how to do it with no fuss and makes it as simple as it can be.