Construction Law · Nashville, Tennessee
Contracts that hold weight, liens filed on time, and defect fights won with the drawings in hand. For GCs, subs, owners, and design pros — from notice to occupancy to final payment.
Division 00 — Legal
Construction law by the spec book. Every engagement scoped, scheduled, and priced like the projects it protects.
AIA, ConsensusDocs, and bespoke agreements — GMP, design-build, CM-at-risk. Risk shifted on purpose, not by boilerplate.
Notices, liens, and payment-bond claims perfected on unforgiving clocks — and defended when they're used as leverage.
Water intrusion, structural issues, failed systems. We litigate with experts who've stamped drawings, not just reports.
CPM schedule forensics, acceleration claims, and liquidated-damages fights — proven with float, not feelings.
Citation contests, fatality-response counsel, and safety-program audits before the inspector arrives.
Prompt-pay act claims, retainage recovery, and change-order wars. You built it; we get it paid for.
The Clocks Are Running
Tennessee's lien framework is a sequence of short fuses. Miss one and your security evaporates — the debt survives, your leverage doesn't.
Remote contractors must notify within 90 days of each month worked but unpaid.
Notice of lien must follow completion or abandonment within 90 days to preserve rights.
Perfected liens must be enforced by suit within one year — or they expire quietly.
Public projects trade liens for bonds — with their own notice-and-suit countdowns.
Rule of thumb: if you're wondering whether a deadline applies, it started running weeks ago. Deadlines above are simplified — call and we'll run your actual dates while you're on the phone.
Who We Build For
Prime contracts, sub agreements, and claims — both directions.
Flow-down review, lien rights, and getting paid without burning the relationship.
Delivery-method strategy, defect claims, and completion assurance.
Standard-of-care defense and contract terms that don't insure the whole job.
Site Supervision
One built bridges before briefs; the other grew up under a framing crew's scaffold. Steel-toe boots in both offices.
Founding Partner · Licensed Professional Engineer
Seven years as a structural engineer before law school. Reuben reads shop drawings, CPM schedules, and geotech reports natively — and deposes experts as a peer, not a tourist.
J.D., Vanderbilt · P.E. (TN) · AGC of TN, General Counsel Panel
Partner · Liens & Payment Litigation
Daughter of a Murfreesboro framing contractor who once lost six figures to a deadbeat developer — no lien filed. Shelby has perfected 900+ liens since. Nobody in her caseload misses a notice date.
J.D., Belmont · TN & KY bars · Construction Law Section, Past Chair
Closeout Documents
Hospital project, 14 months of owner-caused delay. Our CPM forensics survived three days of expert battle intact.
General contractorCurtain-wall failure blamed on our envelope sub. The jury found the design, not the installation — zero liability.
Glazing subcontractorRetainage held hostage across four projects. Liens, statutory interest, and attorney's fees — collected in full.
Mechanical contractorIllustrative results; outcomes depend on contracts, records, and facts. No result is guaranteed.
RFI № 001
Contract on your desk, payment past due, or an inspector in the trailer — describe it and we'll respond with next steps and your real deadlines within one business day.