Marc E Gravely

Practice Areas

Marc Gravely founded and leads Gravely Attorneys & Counselors, a prominent Texas-based national law firm focused on representation of public and private project/property owners on high-value projects. The firm’s focus is insurance recovery and construction defect litigation exclusively on behalf of project/property owners.

Career

As one of America’s elite infrastructure lawyers and construction law notables, Marc is a frequent lecturer and author on topics pertaining to construction and insurance issues. His most recent book, Reframing America’s Infrastructure – A Ruins to Renaissance Playbook, is an Amazon bestseller in four categories. For his innovative work in the construction legal arena, Marc was named "Plaintiffs Law Trailblazer" by the National Law Journal and a "Texas Trailblazer" by Texas Lawyer Magazine.

With expertise that spans litigation, appellate law and public policy, Marc Gravely is a powerful advocate for property owners, boards of directors, community associations and homeowners’ associations in construction defect and insurance coverage disputes. The founder of Gravely PC, he is an innovator of legal strategies to maximize returns in coverage disputes and construction defect litigation involving private- and public-sector projects. Using a contingency-fee model, Mr. Gravely finds business solutions to legal disputes and has secured multimillion-dollar recoveries on behalf of a wide variety of projects, including commercial, mixed-use, multiunit residential, high-rise and taxpayer-funded projects. His clients include a wide range of businesses, as well as public-sector clients, including public hospitals, municipalities, county governments and school districts. He has made appearances at the Supreme Court of Texas 15 times on behalf of individual clients or as amicus counsel for business organizations.

Professional Memberships

- Founder, Dallas Insurance Law American Inn of Court, 2023

- Member, American Board of Trial Advocates

- State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, through 2021

- Elected Fellow in the American College of Coverage Counsel, 2021

Publications

- Reframing America’s Infrastructure | A Ruins to Renaissance Playbook (Sutton Hart Press – 2022)

- Texas Annotated Insurance Code – Contributing Editor

- Texas Insurance Digest – Contributing Author

- 7 Step Guide to Construction Defect Claims (series) – Author

- Construction Quality Audits – Capturing Value with Post Construction Quality Control – Author

Clients

Our clients include:

- Retirement communities

- HOAs

- Condominium boards

- Hospitals and medical buildings

- Hotels

- Apartments/multifamily

- Public-sector structures and projects

- School districts and charter schools

- Public and private universities

- Municipal buildings

- State and county government facilities

- Public hospitals

- County jails

Industry Sector Expertise

With expertise that spans litigation, appellate law and public policy, Marc Gravely is a powerful advocate for property owners, boards of directors, community associations and homeowners’ associations in construction defect and insurance coverage disputes. The founder of Gravely PC, he is an innovator of legal strategies to maximize returns in coverage disputes and construction defect litigation involving private- and public-sector projects. Using a contingency-fee model, Mr. Gravely finds business solutions to legal disputes and has secured multimillion-dollar recoveries on behalf of a wide variety of projects, including commercial, mixed-use, multiunit residential, high-rise and taxpayer-funded projects. His clients include a wide range of businesses, as well as public-sector clients, including public hospitals, municipalities, county governments and school districts. He has made appearances at the Supreme Court of Texas 15 times on behalf of individual clients or as amicus counsel for business organizations.

Mr. Gravely is at the forefront of public policy discourse and legislation on issues surrounding America’s infrastructure and related projects. The author of the best-selling 2021 book Reframing America’s Infrastructure – A Ruins to Renaissance Playbook, he uses his deep knowledge of the law, business and public policy to provide a voice to business and industry groups in the shaping of legislation, litigation and public policy.

Education

Awards

Work Highlights

- Former Special Prosecutor for the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct