Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP has announced that Best Lawyers has
named Joel Lewin, Chair of the Firm’s Construction & Public Contracts Group
“2012 Boston Construction Lawyer of the Year” and Robert Lizza, Vice-Chair of
the Firm’s Construction & Public Contracts group, “2012 Boston Litigation –
Construction Lawyer of the Year”.
Only a single lawyer in each specialty in Boston is being honored as the
“Lawyer of the Year.” Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys
by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading
lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 18th
edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million
detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
As Chair of the Construction Law Group, Joel's primary focus has been
representing general contractors, owners and subcontractors in complex
litigation. He was the firm's team leader in representing the general
contractors performing most of the construction of the "Big Dig" in Boston. His
practice concentrates on heavy civil projects including tunnels, bridges,
highways, wastewater-treatment plants, as well as office buildings, shopping
centers, power plants, hospitals, schools, courthouses, airports and marine
projects.
As Vice Chair of the Construction & Public Contracts Law Group, Bob’s
practice is in construction law, with an emphasis on dispute resolution,
contract drafting and negotiation, risk management counseling, and general
business advice to construction managers, contractors, design-builders and
owners. Bob has twenty-nine years of experience resolving complex construction
disputes through negotiation, litigation, and ADR, and has been lead counsel in
dozens of trials, bid protests, arbitrations, and mediations.
With over 25 professionals, the Construction & Public Contracts Group at
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP is one of the top construction law practices in
the country. U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers have given Hinckley,
Allen & Snyder’s Construction & Public Contracts Group a National Tier 1
ranking in Construction Law. The Firm is the only New England based law firm to
achieve this ranking in the field of Construction Law.
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP has provided a full range of legal services
and pragmatic business advice to clients throughout the Northeast for over a
century. With offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island,
Hartford, Connecticut and Concord, New Hampshire, our team of over 130 lawyers
provides expert legal counsel and in-depth industry knowledge in such
specialties as venture capital, intellectual property, state and federal
taxation, securities law, health care law, construction law, corporate law, real
estate law, labor and employment law and commercial
litigation.