Charles Briton Lewis

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Successfully represented a continuing care retirement community against a general contractor for deficiencies in its completed project resulting in a mutli-million dollar settlement.
  Represented general contractor in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit alleging fraud against the Public Building Commission of Chicago, alleging that the PBC hid the fact that there were asbestos-wrapped pipes subsurface that were uncovered during construction, which resulted in significant delays
  additional costs.
  Represented a preeminent rehabilitation hospital in the drafting
  negotiation of its agreements with its architects
  construction manager for a new $600 million redevelopment project.
  Successfully represented the owner in a $100 million arbitration involving design errors
  omissions as well as construction defects
  deficiencies.
  Represented the construction manager on a $15 million claim involving the construction of a five-star hotel/condo in Chicago, which resulted in a six-week successful arbitration.
  Represented the general contractor in a $10 million claim arising out of differing site conditions encountered during the construction of a retaining wall in Worcester, MA.
  Successfully represented the construction manager on a project involving the construction of seven pump stations on an international pipeline in the arbitration of a claim for breach of contract brought by a prime contractor against the pipeline owner.
  Represented a Chicago hospital during the program management, design
  construction of its new $200 million ambulatory care facility
  the renovation of certain of its existing facilities.
  Represented an at risk Construction Manager on two separate projects - the first with a contract value of $8 billion,
  the second with a contract value of $2 billion.
  Successfully represented the general contractor on a $15 million claim against the owner as a result of the renovation of a l
  mark hotel in the city of Chicago.
  Represented two contractors on claims arising from the construction of a portion of Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan.
  Represented the Government of Greece in responding to
  defending against $200 million in claims submitted by a consortium of 23 European contractors during construction of Lines 2
  3 of the Athens Metro Rail System.
  Represented the contractor in its claim against the owner arising out of the construction of a prominent restaurant
  retail development in Moscow.
  Successfully represented a Taiwanese owner of a luxury hotel in Guam in two separate arbitrations against the designer
  contractor arising out of the need to retrofit the building because of structural deficiencies discovered shortly before the hotel was opened.
  Represented the net lessee/l
  lord in the demolition, remediation,
  reconstruction of the interior of a l
  mark building located next to Ground Zero in New York City.
  Represented the surety in the default of a large general contractor with projects in Pennsylvania, North Carolina
  Virginia,
  the bidding
  reletting of those contracts as well as the prosecution of the many claims, both affirmative
  defensive, which arose as a result thereof.
  Represented a Chicago hospital during the design
  the construction of a $600 million new facility, including the representation of its interests in an arbitration brought by a prime contractor. Subsequent representation of the same hospital during the design
  construction of a new $400 million women's hospital.
  Represented the electrical contractor in a dispute with the design builder with respect to the replacement
  modernization of approximately 74,000 streetlights for the City of Kansas City.
  Represented the contractor in a dispute involving the design
  construction of a luxury hotel on South Beach in Miami
  the successful trial of the case in federal court.
  Represented the owner against the design/builder of a hotel in Boise, Idaho in a four-week successful arbitration.