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Can you tell us about a memorable construction dispute or transaction handled by the firm?
Can you tell us about a memorable construction dispute or transaction handled by the firm?
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one memorable construction dispute that
I was involved in with our firm there
was a uh collapse at a historic uh
famous building in Washington DC and our
client was the general contractor who is
alleged to have uh contributed to this
collapse during a big construction
project and there was multiple lawsuits
that came out of it but one of them that
the most memorable was brought by a
adjacent building owner they were not
part of the construction area but their
building was damaged and in addition to
that damage they claimed I think close
to $80 million in economic damages
because they were a real estate company
that planned they alleged they were
going to sell that building the collapse
that they accused us of causing was
essentially they alleged ruined their
sale and they brought close to $80
million in claims most of it for these
economic losses that really weren’t
tangible and we really dug into the case
uh hired forensic accountants real
estate experts economists from Johns
Hopkins to dig in explore their damages
and really it ended up being the legal
research that kind of saved the day of
we found a case from the 1970s in DC
where the court of appeals in the
District of Columbia held that a party a
plaintiff cannot recover
property damage as well as loss of value
to their property and we brought that up
to the judge the judge agreed with us
and we were able to knock tens of
millions of dollars off of this claim
for one of our biggest construction
clients and they were very pleased with
that and it got the case into a much
more reasonable position uh where we
could work towards trial or settlement
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Baltimore, MD commercial litigation attorney James Howard talks about a memorable construction dispute he handled.
