We defend architects, engineers, designers, and other design professionals from claims and litigation in Texas and across North America.
Ziegler Gardner’s attorneys have over 30 years of experience as go-to outside counsel for ENR Top 100, mid-sized, and small design and construction firms on their toughest litigation and highest value business deals.
Client-centered expertise. We have experience representing major players across the design and construction space, including architects, engineers, code inspectors, licensed surveyors, landscape architects, design-builders, general contractors, subcontractors, construction fund managers, specialty contractors and consultants, and liability insurance carriers. We tailor our representation to each client’s needs, drawing on the full scope of our industry knowledge.
Broad experience across all types of matters. We have represented clients in litigation and business deals related to major construction projects worth billions of dollars. These include design-build infrastructure and megaprojects involving complex government and private contracts. Clients turn to us to serve as lead counsel in their lawsuits, arbitrations, mediations, mergers & acquisitions, and other high-stakes matters.
Our tenure and winning track record have allowed us to develop a few sub-specialties that deliver additional value to our clients. We have significant experience serving as:
- Outside general counsel for midsize and startup design and construction firms
- Monitoring counsel for liability insurance carriers
Regional dominance and national scope. We have developed a significant depth of knowledge in handling major projects throughout all of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and nationwide. As companies expand into new markets, we have the capabilities to continue providing top-tier representation. We have worked on projects including:
- Transportation infrastructure (highways, bridges, and slopes)
- Heavy civil, maritime, and waterway infrastructure (ports, dams, wharves, levees, reservoirs, storm/wastewater facilities, ship channels, harbors, and mines)
- Commercial buildings (high-rise and mid-rise office and retail, hotels, parking garages, mixed-use, indoor and outdoor shopping centers, and malls)
- Institutional and government structures (university educational and dormitory, K-12 schools, courthouses, municipal buildings, military base structures/housing, and churches)
- Health care (hospitals, surgery centers, laboratories, long-term care and assisted living facilities)
- Multi-family (wood and steel-framed, low, mid, and high-rise apartments, condominiums, and senior living communities)
- Residential development (multi-single-family homes, custom and track housing)
- Entertainment (theaters, civic centers, and opera houses)
- Energy (oil & gas, petrochemical, and LNG and ECP)
- Sports venues (professional, collegiate, and high school football and baseball stadiums/practice facilities and multi-sport arenas)
Representative Experience
Ziegler Gardner’s lawyers have successfully served as lead counsel for designers and constructors on some of the most high-profile, high-value construction cases not only in every part of Texas, but also in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and across the nations, including:
- I-35E Managed Lanes (Design-Build TX-DOT/Cost-Overrun, Dallas to Denton)
- Minute Maid Park (Houston Astros)
- Exxon Mobile Petrochemical Plant (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
- Texas State Highway 130 (P3/Design-Build, Austin to San Antonio)
- Ocean Tower (High-Rise Condo, South Padre Island, Texas)
- Mississippi State University Football Stadium (Starkville, Mississippi)
- Las Lunas Single-Family Development (Las Lunas, New Mexico)
- Port of Freeport (wharf, Freeport Texas)
- Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge (Corpus Christi, Texas)
- Dallas Cowboys Practice Facility (collapse; multi-injury catastrophic accident)
- Arroyo Grande Mine (New Mexico)
- Memorial Hermann Hospital Headquarters Tower (Houston)
- Bois D’ Arc Lake (Fannin County, Texas)
- I-375 Loop (Design-Build TX-DOT/Cost-Overrun, El Paso)
- Allen High School Eagle Stadium (Allen, Texas)
- USAA Corporate Headquarters (San Antonio)
- Motiva Petrochemical Facility (Port Arthur, Texas)
