Marc E Gravely

Practice Areas

Marc Gravely founded and leads Gravely Attorneys & Counselors, a prominent Texas-based national law firm focused on representation of public and private project/property owners on high-value projects. The firm’s focus is insurance recovery and construction defect litigation exclusively on behalf of project/property owners.

Career

As one of America’s elite infrastructure lawyers and construction law notables, Marc is a frequent lecturer and author on topics pertaining to construction and insurance issues. His most recent book, Reframing America’s Infrastructure – A Ruins to Renaissance Playbook, is an Amazon bestseller in four categories. For his innovative work in the construction legal arena, Marc was named "Plaintiffs Law Trailblazer" by the National Law Journal and a "Texas Trailblazer" by Texas Lawyer Magazine.

With expertise that spans litigation, appellate law and public policy, Marc Gravely is a powerful advocate for property owners, boards of directors, community associations and homeowners’ associations in construction defect and insurance coverage disputes. The founder of Gravely PC, he is an innovator of legal strategies to maximize returns in coverage disputes and construction defect litigation involving private- and public-sector projects. Using a contingency-fee model, Mr. Gravely finds business solutions to legal disputes and has secured multimillion-dollar recoveries on behalf of a wide variety of projects, including commercial, mixed-use, multiunit residential, high-rise and taxpayer-funded projects. His clients include a wide range of businesses, as well as public-sector clients, including public hospitals, municipalities, county governments and school districts. He has made appearances at the Supreme Court of Texas 15 times on behalf of individual clients or as amicus counsel for business organizations.

Professional Memberships

Appointed to Texas State Bar Board of Directors

Elected Fellow in the American College of Coverage Counsel, 2021

Former Special Prosecutor for Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct

Publications

Author, Reframing America's Infrastructure - A Ruins to Renaissance Playbook (Sutton Hart Press – 2022)

Contributing Editor, Texas Annotated Insurance Code

Contributing Author, Texas Insurance Digest

Author, 7 Step Guide to Construction Defect Claims (series)

Author, Construction Quality Audits - Capturing Value with Post Construction Quality Control

Clients

Our clients include:

• Retirement communities

• HOAs

• Condominium boards

• Hospitals and medical buildings

• Hotels

• Apartments/multifamily

• Public-sector structures and projects

• School districts and charter schools

• Public and private universities

• Municipal buildings

• State and county government facilities

• Public hospitals

• County jails

Industry Sector Expertise

The veteran attorneys at Gravely PC are dedicated and powerful advocates for project owners, boards of directors, governmental entities, community associations and HOAs in construction defect and insurance coverage disputes.

With a proprietary pre-suit resolution process and a contingency fee structure, the team has earned multimillion-dollar recoveries in construction defect and policy coverage litigation involving commercial, mixed-use, multiunit residential, high-rise and taxpayer-funded projects.

Their experienced team levels the field in legal disputes to maximize returns, ensuring that projects are resilient, built to last and free from defects.

The firm's lawyers practice at the intersection of appellate law and construction and insurance litigation. The firm staffs all litigation for appeal, ensuring that every case is positioned to capitalize on rulings at every level, all the way to the Supreme Court of Texas. In addition to benefiting clients directly, the firm’s appellate work has resulted in lasting court opinions that have preserved the rights of policyholders in claim disputes and property owners in defect litigation.