Construction Litigation Associate

Distinct | North America; California; Remote; USD 160,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Distinct | North America is seeking a Construction Litigation Associate to work fully remotely from California. You will handle public construction matters for the agency, with oversight spanning the project lifecycle and exposure to high-stakes disputes.

The role requires three years or more of construction or civil litigation, experience with delay claims and site conditions, and familiarity with public contracting rules and prevailing wage issues.

Qualifications

• Three years or more of construction or civil litigation experience.
• Fully remote in California.
• Knowledge of public contracting rules and prevailing wage questions.

Responsibilities

• Handle delay and differing site condition claims and perform critical path analyses.
• Review specifications and bid documents.
• Depose superintendents, inspectors and design professionals.
• Navigate public contracting rules and bid protests; address prevailing wage issues.
• Draft clear writing explaining project issues for public audiences.

Skills

Construction litigation

Delay analysis

Public contracting

Deposition experience

Education

California Bar admission

Job description

Construction Litigation Associate | Fully Remote, California | $160,000 to $205,000

The gym roof was meant to be finished before the new school year. It's November now, the contractor says it's the soil, the soils engineer says it's the design, and six hundred kids are doing PE in the parking lot while everybody writes letters to each other.

Public construction cases run on a different clock from private ones. The money is somebody's taxes, the deadline is a school year, and whatever happens gets explained out loud at a board meeting with the local paper in the room. You'd be acting for the agency, which means you see the whole thing from the specification onwards instead of picking up a file at mediation.

Fully remote anywhere in California, $160,000 to $205,000, three years or more of construction or civil litigation.

What the work actually is:

• Delay and differing site condition claims, and the critical path analysis that decides whether any of it is worth money
• Specifications and bid documents written by somebody who retired in 2021
• Depositions of superintendents, inspectors and the design professionals who signed the drawings
• Public contracting rules, bid protests and the prevailing wage questions that come with them
• Writing up where a project went wrong in language that still works when it's read out in public

The California Bar, and a tolerance for reading drawings.