Mead Law Group

As the leaders in Nevada construction law, the Mead Law Group can assist you with all of your construction law needs. Firm attorneys prefer to work with you from the start to counsel you on establishing best practices for avoiding and minimizing risk exposure. But no matter when we join your team, Mead Law Group will provide skilled, knowledgeable, and dedicated legal support to help your business succeed.

In the construction industry, disputes arise from a wide variety of causes. This is when our impressive track record representing clients in minor to multimillion dollar disputes will benefit you most. We can efficiently and effectively evaluate your matter to advise the best course of action towards resolution. We approach every case with an understanding that it may go to trial, with a plan for every eventuality and are ready to aggressively and effectively represent you in mediation, arbitration, court hearings and trial, if necessary.

Regardless of your Construction Industry role, you are either making payments for contracted work or expecting payment for your work. Nevada’s laws regulating how contractors are paid and when contractors’ lien rights are implemented are complex, tedious and always confusing. Mead Law Group lawyers understand these laws; educate their clients about compliance and can guide your team successfully through their requirements. Mead Law Group Lawyers are Nationally recognized for their understanding of:

• Construction Contract Rights
• Change Order Issues and Impact Claims
• Prompt Payment Requirements
• Mechanics Lien, Stop Notice and Bond Enforcement and Defense
• Payment / Lien Waiver and Release
• Collection and Indemnity Rights
• Payment Performance Bond Claims

Mead Law Group can protect your rights and your project, whether you are paying for the work, or looking to get paid for it.

Like many professions, Construction is subject to government regulation. Contractors must be licensed, Designers must be Registered, and obtaining such a license / registration can be confusing, time consuming, and difficult. But working without the required license or registration can lead to loss of work, administrative citations and even jail time. The Mead Law Group can help you avoid all of that. Our lawyers have helped hundreds of clients obtain their licenses and registrations and comply

with the regulations that govern the construction professions.

Sometimes even the best preparation cannot avoid a consumer license complaint, or an administrative investigation. Regulatory and licensing authorities routinely investigate regulatory breaches and issue administrative citations. You do not want to face a complaint or investigation alone. Your business depends on the success of your defense, and the success of your defense depends on the experience and ability of your legal counsel. Mead Law Group lawyers have successfully defended their clients through licensing complaints, administrative citations, and criminal complaints. We can help you too.

Well thought out and drafted contracts are critical for the success of your business. They result in more successful projects, mitigate and manage risk, and create long term mutually beneficial relationships between the parties.

But construction has its own language. Construction language fluency is vital to construction contract negotiation. We understand the difference between a Baseline Schedule and a 3-Week Look Ahead. We get the nuance between a Lump Sum, Cost Plus, and GMax / GMP contract. We understand Prevailing Wage / Davis-Bacon compliance. We know what RFIs, CORs, PCOs, EWOs, EWAs, PICs, ASIs, TCOs and COOs are. We recognize Delay, Disruption, Acceleration, Impact claims and Cardinal Changes. We have watched the havoc of Trade Stacking and Out of Sequence work, and their Ripple Effect on a Project schedule. We have dealt with an Owner and/or Contractor consuming all the Float in a Critical Path schedule activity; Recognize that a Milestone missed results in Substantial Completion date slippage. We know the difference between a Punch List and a Warranty claim, and the distinction between Substantial Completion and Actual Completion. We have enforced rights and defended clients in Indemnity, Surety and Insurance claims. We’ve been there. We’ve done that.

Working with local, state and federal government can be a complex nightmare of statutes, regulations, codes and policies. In many cases, deviating from these in even the slightest way can result in the rejection of your bid, or a bid protest and potential loss of a contract award.

Mead Law Group has been on the vanguard of public contracting statutory adoption, interpretation and compliance for many years. Whether you are looking to be qualified as a bidder, certified as a DBE, submitting a public bid, or contemplating a bid protest, our lawyers have the know how to help.