Larry is a government contracts and construction litigation attorney. Holding a degree in architecture, Larry brings unique perspectives, insight, and knowledge to his clients. He assists contractors, subcontractors, owners, and designers on all manners of commercial and private construction projects, including negotiating prime and subcontracts, tenant fit-out agreements, and project workouts with financial institutions and sureties. He represents clients in all aspects of litigation and claims resolution in connection with both government and commercial/nonpublic contracts/projects. In addition, Larry advises clients outside the construction industry on all aspects of government contracts matters, including bid protests, claims, disputes, contract reviews and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, internal and government investigations, and debarment and suspension proceedings. His experience includes representing contractors and subcontractors in litigation matters and contract disputes, including delay, changes, impact, loss of productivity, and geotechnical/differing site condition claims. He counsels contractors on Small Business Administration (SBA) matters ranging from 8(a) formation and status protests to the Mentor-Protégé Program and the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVO) and HUBZone small business programs. Larry has appeared frequently in proceedings before many U.S. District Courts as well as many state and local courts and agencies. He has also represented clients in many arbitrations, mediations, and ADRs in both domestic and international fora. Larry sits as an arbitration neutral and mediator on the AAA’s Construction industry Panel of Neutrals and is the ABA Section on Litigation’s representative to the AAA’s National Construction Dispute Resolution Council. He is also a founding editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Construction Arbitration and ADR published by Juris Publications.
Larry’s national and international experience includes providing advice and representation in connection with construction and infrastructure projects on six continents and in over 35 countries for clients in the infrastructure, environmental, office, commercial, process and manufacturing, energy production/transmission, and real estate sectors. Those representations include government contracts disputes and private, international arbitrations. He has also represented clients across more than 35 states in federal, local, and government contracts and commercial construction matters. He represents clients before virtually all federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, Department of the Interior, Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, General Services Administration, U.S. Agency for International Development, Architect of the Capitol, and Smithsonian Institution.
In addition to construction, Larry has significant real estate experience representing developers, purchasers, and sellers on real estate transactions and development deals, providing an all-encompassing list of services including the front-end transactional work as well as the construction and renovation portion of such projects and transactions. Larry has also negotiated and represented parties in new development and redevelopment projects throughout the eastern seaboard of the United States, including projects valued in the multiple hundreds of millions of dollars. He previously represented a developer and landlord in various transactions relating to ground leases as well as leases with the United States government on what was then the largest building leased by the U.S. General Services Administration. He has also represented developers in various aspects of design, planning, construction, and disputes relating to the redevelopment of inner-city projects in large cities and is familiar with the logistical and governmental hurdles involved in those complex projects. Larry has been heavily involved in the acquisition and disposition of raw and developed real estate valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as the development, redevelopment, and renovation of countless government and commercial projects across the United States.
Larry has acted as a mediator and arbitrator in various development disputes, as well. He has acted as project counsel to owners/developers on a number of high profile projects including a $27 million renovation and expansion of a major, platinum-level country club in suburban Maryland; the $40+ million expansion and addition of a private school consisting of a new facility containing theater, performing arts, music, and cafeteria facilities; expansion and renovation for the historic D.C. Jewish Community Center; and the renovation of The University Club of Washington’s hotel facilities, as well as the expansion and studio modernization of WETA, Washington’s public broadcasting television and radio stations, headquarters.
Larry has published extensively. He has lectured and conducted seminars for clients and associations, including the Associated General Contractors at several of its national conventions, Associated Builders and Contractors of Metro Washington, American Subcontractors Association, and D.C. Metropolitan Subcontractors Association.
Larry has been listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of Construction since 2011. He has also been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America since 2014 for Construction Law, and more recently, since 2020 for Arbitration, Construction Law, and Construction Litigation. Since 2016, Larry has been recognized as a Washington. D.C., Super Lawyer in the area of Construction Litigation by Super Lawyers magazine. He has been recommended in the area of Construction Law by The Legal 500 US in 2023 and the nine years immediately preceding, and was recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” in 2018 by The Legal 500 US. Larry has been recognized as a “Top Rated Lawyer” in Washington, D.C., for Construction Law by Legal Leader, and is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Larry is also a member of the Jefferson Society, an invitation only group of architects/lawyers, and a founding fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America.
Larry earned his bachelor’s degrees from University of Maryland in history and architecture. Larry earned his law degree from Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. While attending law school, Larry was the lead articles editor of the CommLaw Conspectus Law Journal.