Construction
USA Guide 2024 : Tennessee
Band 1
Contact number
+1 615 742 6200About
Provided by Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
We provide a multi-disciplinary, yet seamless, approach to meet your real estate and construction needs. We assist buyers, sellers, lenders, owners, builders and designers to resolve conflicts in a manner that best achieves their goals and appropriately allocates risk.
Our broad practice includes counsel related to:
- Drafting and negotiating all types of design contracts, construction contracts and related contract and documents including American Institute of Architects (AIA), Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC), ConsensusDOCS and others
- Project delivery methods including design-bid-build, design-build, multiple prime, fast track and construction management
- Lease and sales contracts
- Contract interpretation
- Bid protests
- Claims management and resolution
- Title claims, deeds of trust and mortgages
- Eminent domain, land use, zoning and entitlement, easement and boundary disputes
- Environmental issues
- Contractor licensing issues
- Restrictive covenants
- Mechanic's and materialmens' liens
- Delay or impact claims, defect claims, design deficiencies, payment claims and bond claims
- Project close-outs
Bass, Berry & Sims sponsors many industry-related organizations, and our attorneys are actively involved with leadership and committee positions, speaking engagements, and local, regional and national events of industry-related organizations, including ICSC, ULI, BOMA), Nashville Health Care Council, Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel, and COAA.
Chambers Review
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC is a prominent Tennessee firm with offices in Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville. The firm's construction group advises clients on construction and design contracting and in the management of construction disputes.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Bass, Berry & Sims has excellent depth of talent and knowledge. The team is efficient and very client-oriented."
"Bass, Berry & Sims has excellent depth of talent and knowledge. The team is efficient and very client-oriented."
Notable Practitioners
Brian Dobbs is an experienced attorney with considerable expertise in construction contracting work. He represents large and small clients from a range of industries, particularly in the healthcare sector.
"He has great experience and knowledge of the industry."
"Brian Dobbs has demonstrated excellent knowledge of the law."