Neal Sweeney

Practice Areas

Neal Sweeney focuses his practice exclusively on construction law and government contracts.

Career

Drawing on his more than 30 years of experience with the construction industry, Neal counsels clients on major infrastructure and P3 projects such as transit, airports, highways, wastewater treatment, and tunnels. He is also involved in energy and industrial projects involving clean technology and renewable sources, including hydro, solar, wind, geothermal, integrated gasification combined cycle, and landfill gas.

Throughout his career, Neal has successfully negotiated contracts for engineering, design-build, O&M, and equipment totaling billions of dollars. He regularly represents contractors, designers, and public and private owners. He provides legal support throughout the life of a project, focusing on risk mitigation and real-time dispute resolution.

Neal has participated in the trials of various large and complex construction disputes in court as well as in arbitration and before federal boards of contract appeals involving the US Army Corps of Engineers, General Services Administration (GSA), Veterans Administration (VA), and other federal agencies.

He has co-authored or edited a number of books on construction law.