Attorney Richard L. Reed's Legal Cases

Construction and development

Represented a public owner

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OUTCOME:

Represented a public owner in the procurement of new construction projects with a combined value in excess of $1.5 billion, to deliver several major health care facilities, including a new trauma tower ... , parking garage and central utility plant, significant renovations to another existing hospital, and a new Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Advice included analysis of procurement laws and methods; drafting of professional service and construction contracts and requests for qualifications and proposals; analyzing exceptions and qualifications; contract negotiations; review of insurance policies; and continued advice on all issues related to contract administration and warranty claims. The advice also included the use of a dispute review board process that successfully enabled the client to resolve several multi-million dollar disputes arising from defects in the design and construction of the trauma tower facility.

Construction and development

Represented a government owner

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OUTCOME:

Represented a government owner in its pursuit of damages for design errors and omissions committed by the original architect and a mechanical engineer on a major data center project. The case required ... extensive analysis of the feasibility of the mechanical engineer’s mechanical and electrical system designs for the HVAC systems. A significant settlement was achieved and the client recovered essentially all funds paid for the failed design, enabling the client to successfully get the project back on track without having to file suit.

Construction and development

Represented a commercial contractor

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OUTCOME:

Represented a commercial contractor in connection with a $33 million multi-family apartment complex project financed through a tax credit based public-private partnership. Negotiated the terms of the o ... wner’s heavily modified American Institute of Architects (AIA) contract form to obtain terms favorable to the client, including terms to protect the client against impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, and exposure to construction defects liability and sale and use tax liability in the event of a tax audit or assessment despite reliance on the owner’s tax exemption certification.

Construction and development

Represented public utility owner

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OUTCOME:

Represented public utility owner in an administrative hearing on a contractor’s differing site conditions claims on a major sewer main project. Prepared a comprehensive analysis of the facts and case ... law to demonstrate the contractor’s claims failed under the then current Texas law providing the contractor impliedly warrants the sufficiency of the design documents. This analysis led to a mediated settlement agreement favorable to the Owner, which resulted in the client’s avoidance of liability and offset of the majority of its legal fees and costs in the dispute.

Construction and development

Advised a large public utility

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OUTCOME:

Advised a large public utility on the use of the construction manager-at-risk and the design-build alternative delivery methods to develop several modern service center facilities for the client’s San ... Antonio operations, all valued at over $80 million. Continued to advice client to favorably negotiate the settlement of several contract disputes arising from the project.

Construction and development

Represented a public owner

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Represented a public owner in connection with the procurement of a water improvement project estimated to cost approximately $200 million, including advice on the use of alternative delivery methods fo ... r the procurement of construction services. This major civil construction project is a signature project for San Antonio and Bexar County because it will restore and result in major re-development along the banks of the original water way on which the city was founded.

Construction and development

Represented water and wastewater systems contractor

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OUTCOME:

Represented water and wastewater systems contractor in arbitration of a dispute with a tunneling subcontractor on a major water pipeline over 100 miles in length. Within a matter of days after filing a ... highly detailed Motion to Dismiss on behalf of the Firm’s client, setting forth the subcontractor’s admissions in its own documents that it had assumed the risks inherent in the design and construction of the tunneling works, and demonstrating that the subcontractor had released its differing site conditions claims in several of its Pay Applications, the subcontractor agreed to settle on terms very favorable to the client, offsetting substantially all of the client’s its legal fees, and dismissing all claims against the client.

Construction and development

Represented a major public owner

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OUTCOME:

Represented a major public owner on all aspects of procurement and contracting for the design and new construction of a $900 million construction project in Austin, Texas, including analysis of insuran ... ce policies of prospective project management, design, and construction firms. The project included new construction of 1,500,000 square feet of modern, high-performance office buildings connected by underground tunnels and parking facilities.

Construction and development

Represented a federally chartered credit union

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Represented a federally chartered credit union in connection with the development, design, and construction of its office headquarters complex, including the formation of a joint ownership entity to de ... velop an adjacent multi-story office building on the developer landowner’s highly valuable downtown tract of land, with mixed-use retail and Class A tenant lease office space. The project included major sustainability elements, including solar and geothermal energy-saving features. Helped the client negotiate joint ownership, cost sharing, and development agreements, as well as design and construction contracts, and commercial leases for the client’s interest in the project.

Richard L. Reed's Legal Cases (19)

Represented a public owner

Represented a government owner

Represented a commercial contractor

Represented public utility owner

Advised a large public utility

Represented a public owner

Represented water and wastewater systems contractor

Represented a major public owner

Represented a federally chartered credit union