"Smart Solutions in Conflict Resolution”
Michael Bayard has more than three decades of experience as a construction attorney. A full-time neutral since 2000, he has resolved hundreds of construction and real estate disputes ranging from small residential projects to high-profile, multi-million-dollar, multi-party cases. Mr. Bayard is a former Partner and Chair of the Construction Law Practice Groups at both Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (now SNR Denton) and Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury), where he specialized in complex matters valued in excess of $1 million. He is a nationally recognized authority on the drafting and negotiation of major construction-related documents.
“The Construction Law PAC is dedicated to providing education and community to the full scope of attorneys practicing in the field of construction law — from contractual disputes (including delay, disruption, acceleration, site conditions, etc.), to transactional matters involving construction contracts, to public contract procurement, to contractor licensing, to mechanic’s liens and stop notices, and even to construction-defect litigation. The Construction Law Practice Area Committee will further these objectives by generating and disseminating member-created content in the form of live webinars, case notes, Real Property Law Journal articles, and potentially in-person legal presentations to its membership.”
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https://calawyers.org/real-property-law/practice-area-group-journal-highlight-construction-law/
Construction and real estate disputes of all types, including:
Mr. Bayard has extensive experience serving as an arbitrator, mediator, project neutral, dispute review board member, private judge, discovery referee, special master, expert witness and ADR consultant. He has mediated more than 300 cases ranging in value from $25,000 to $50 million and arbitrated more than 150 ranging in value from $25,000 to $250 million. These cases involve both the private and public sectors, including single family homes, condominiums, apartments, office buildings, shopping centers, churches, schools, community centers, hospitals, theme parks, resorts/ hotels, stadiums, convention centers, military bases, port improvements and local, state and federal public works projects. He served as the sole arbitrator on the largest single-family home construction claim in Los Angeles County and as Chair of a three-member panel hearing one of the largest AAA construction arbitrations in the Western United States.
Mr. Bayard began his career as a construction attorney in 1979 and worked at several prestigious law firms, spending half of his time drafting and negotiating construction-related agreements and the other half as a litigator, arbitrator and mediator. He was an Adjunct Professor of Construction Management & Technology for the Graduate Program in Real Estate Development at USC from 1988-2008.
When there’s a hot issue, Mike is writing seven days a week, multiple times a day, to ferret out the important information and determine what could help move the process forward.
Construction litigation is in Bayard’s genes
He’s really a go-to person. If you’re not serious, you don’t go to Mike. He really wants to make things happen.
He’s very quietly tenacious. He keeps working and working to try to get a matter resolved.
“Our business has relied on the expertise and exceptional service provided by Michael J. Bayard for many years, and they have consistently exceeded our expectations.”
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