Profile:

For over 27 years, Bill Andrews has practiced construction law, focusing on construction-related claims, lawsuits, mediations and arbitrations. He has represented owners, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, suppliers and engineering firms on a wide variety of construction-related projects. His experience in claims, trials, arbitrations and mediations includes projects such as highways and bridges, public works projects, commercial and retail construction, industrial and warehouse facilities, hospitals and health care facilities, power plants (including simple cycle and cogeneration plants), pipelines, petrochemical plants, refineries, chemical plants, gas processing plants, cryogenic plants, schools, multi-family housing and environmental remediation projects. He has represented several EPC firms in disputes and claims involving large plants. He also has significant experience representing owners, contractors and engineering firms in claims and disputes involving upstream, midstream and downstream facilities.

Bill has tried to verdict and arbitrated to award more than 50 construction cases. Since 1988, he has been a member of the American Arbitration Association’s National Panel of Construction Arbitrators and has served as a construction mediator since 1998. He is a member of the American Arbitration Association’s Large Complex Construction Case Panel of Arbitrators and was recently approved by the AAA’s National Construction Dispute Resolution Committee as a member of its Construction Arbitration Master Panel.

He is a frequent author and speaker on a variety of construction law and dispute resolution topics.

Professional Recognition: 

The Best Lawyers in America, Since 2006
Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Since 2004
The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, Since 2005
“Texas Super Lawyers,” Texas Monthly, Since 2004

Affiliations:

Representative Experience:

Bill has tried to verdict and arbitrated to award more than 50 construction cases. The following are representative cases:

• 2007 – Represented pipeline owner in the arbitration of claims arising out of the construction of a gas pipeline.
• 2006 – Represented EPC contractor in the trial of claims and counterclaims pertaining to the design and construction of a cryogenic plant and fractionation plant.
• 2003 – Represented fabricator in the arbitration of disputes arising out of the fabrication of multiple modules for a floating production storage offloading vessel.
• 2001 – Represented contractor in the arbitration of disputes arising out of the construction of modules for an offshore oil and gas platform.
• 2000 – Represented contractor in the arbitration of payment, delay and workmanship claims arising out of a commercial building project.
• 1999 – Represented contractor in the arbitration of termination costs arising out of a Strategic Petroleum Reserve project.
• 1999 – Represented contractor in the arbitration of payment and delay claims arising out of a commercial building project.
• 1998 – Represented owner in the trial of contract claims arising out of a major public works contract.
• 1997 – Represented contractor in the trial of contract and tort claims (including defense of counterclaim) against the owner of a refinery.
• 1995 – Represented subcontractor in the trial of wrongful termination claims against a general contractor for the construction of a laboratory building.
• 1994 – Represented contractor in the trial of claims against an engineer arising out of a petrochemical plant project.
• 1994 – Represented contractor in the arbitration of contract claims against the owner of a petrochemical plant.
• 1993 – Represented subcontractor in the arbitration of disruption claims against an EPC contractor of an HDPE plant.
• 1992 – Represented contractor in the arbitration of delay, disruption and extra work claims against the EPC contractor of a power plant (cogeneration plant).
• 1991 – Represented contractor in the arbitration of lost profit claims against an EPC contractor of a power plant (cogeneration plant).
  

Publications/Presentations:

“The New Frontier: Electronic Discovery in Construction Cases,” Construction Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, 20th Annual Construction Law Conference,    March 2007

“Dispute Resolution Clauses,” The University of Texas School of Law, Office
   of Continuing Legal Education, Construction Law Conference, October 2004

“When a Lien Won’t Work,” Construction Law Section of the State Bar of
   Texas, 16th Annual Construction Law Conference, March 2003

“What Works and What Does Not Work in Construction Arbitrations,” Construction Law Section of the State Bar of Texas,  13th  Annual Construction Law Conference, February 2000

“Recent Changes in Texas Affecting Construction Credit Professionals,” Business Credit,  October 1999 (co-author)

 “Termination: A Recipe for Disaster,” Texas Contractor, June 1996 (co-author)