Earl Messer
USA Guide 2024
Band 4 : Construction
Band 4
About
Provided by Earl Messer
Practice Areas
Construction
Construction Litigation
Real Estate
Real Estate Litigation
Experience
Earl has substantial experience handling complex, multi-party delay and defect claims, disputes over insurance coverage and defense, and claims against sureties. He has represented owners, contractors, subcontractors, and sureties.
Earl also has substantial experience with real estate litigation, including commercial foreclosures on office buildings, hotels, manufacturing facilities, and warehouses, disputes relating to commercial leases, easements, and condominiums, and with receiverships, partitions, and condemnations. Earl has litigated hundreds of complex commercial cases, many through trial or arbitration, including jury trials. Besides construction and real estate cases, he has handled many other commercial disputes, particularly in defending against claims for fraud and fraudulent transfer.
Education
Salmon P. Chase College of Law - Northern Kentucky University
JD
1988 - 1991
Chambers Review
USA
Earl Messer maintains a sophisticated construction practice, where he is recognized for the depth of his experience in assisting contractors and developers, both private and public, with litigation surrounding defects and other contractual disputes.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Earl is an extremely intelligent and sophisticated attorney. He has a very good understanding construction law."
"He's very responsive."
"Earl is an extremely intelligent and sophisticated attorney. He has a very good understanding construction law."
"He's very responsive."