Fort Worth Construction Litigation Lawyer

Construction litigation can involve a narrow payment dispute or a multi-party conflict involving design coordination, workmanship, materials, scheduling, and risk transfer. These matters often turn on what the contract documents require, what was directed and approved in writing, and what the project records show at the time the events occurred. Roquemore Skierski PLLC handles commercial construction disputes that include the following categories.

• Breach of contract claims involving scope, change orders, payment terms, retainage, default provisions, termination rights, and completion obligations
• Mechanic’s lien disputes, including lien enforcement and lien defense, where a mechanic’s lien is a statutory claim against real property used to secure payment for labor or materials
• Warranty claims involving express warranties and contractual correction-of-work obligations
• Payment disputes involving unpaid invoices, disputed pay applications, backcharges, and contested retainage releases
• Delay and disruption claims involving schedule impacts, acceleration demands, sequencing conflicts, and responsibility for coordination failures
• Differing site condition disputes involving concealed or subsurface conditions and disputes over contractual risk allocation
• Bond and surety disputes involving payment bonds and performance bonds
• DTPA claims, where the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act is a consumer protection statute that may apply in limited circumstances depending on the parties and transaction
• Breach of fiduciary duty claims, where a fiduciary duty is a heightened duty of loyalty and candor that may arise in certain project relationships such as development ventures or agency-based arrangements
• Construction fraud and misrepresentation claims tied to billing practices, substitutions, certifications, and project communications
• Design professional disputes involving architects and engineers, including professional negligence claims tied to design services
• Mediation and arbitration proceedings, where mediation is a facilitated settlement process and arbitration is a private adjudicative process that can be binding when required by contract

A Fort Worth construction litigation lawyer at the firm also addresses disputes that involve layered contractual risk shifting through indemnity provisions, insurance requirements, and additional insured obligations, because those terms can control defense responsibilities and allocation of loss.