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Devine Millimet has one of the largest and most diverse Construction Law Practice Groups in Northern New England. Our team -- led by Chair Matthew Johnson along with the support of the 70 attorneys in our firm -- is able to use our years of experience and expertise to assist you in every aspect of the construction industry, including: project planning, lobbying, zoning, land use, bidding considerations, private and governmental contracting, insurance, OSHA, employment, environmental, bonding and bankruptcy issues, lien work, litigation and dispute resolution. Our attorneys have various legal backgrounds including litigation, real estate, environmental, corporate, labor and employment, bankruptcy and government. Unlike other firms that narrowly focus on specific areas of construction law, Devine Millimet has built a powerhouse to tackle the entire spectrum of construction-related issues.
We regularly work with developers, public and private property owners, contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, and insurers throughout New England to provide effective and practical advice so that our clients may enhance project management, increase profit margins, reduce risk exposures, and increase the ability to prevail in arbitration and litigation in a cost-effective manner. 
We are your advocates. Our litigation attorneys are experienced at the State and Federal levels and have been on both sides of claims involving site conditions, defective plans and specifications, breach of contract, breach of implied and express warranties, project delay, bonding issues, construction liens, breach of fiduciary duties, labor inefficiency, design malpractice, misrepresentation, and terminations. We work with our clients to resolve issues in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Our attorneys are intimately familiar with negotiating and documenting construction contracts. We have experience with all of the major industry forms including design-build contracts, construction management agreements, retention of design professionals, facilities management contracts, technical assistance agreements, agreements for the coordination of multiple prime contractor projects and fast track projects. We aided in the drafting of NH RSA 338-A:2, New Hampshire's recent statute regarding allowable indemnification language in a construction contract.
Our labor experts represent contractors and developers in all phases of collective bargaining and union relations. Our team works with your team to strategize and prepare responses to organized campaigns, mediation and fact-finding, grievance processing, and arbitration.
We make sure clients are in regulatory compliance with new and updated state and federal laws affecting the construction sector such as OSHA, land use restrictions, environmental regulations, and wage and payroll matters.
We help our clients recognize and isolate factors and events that might develop into a later claim or dispute. Our team also works closely with the firm's Workers' Compensation Practice Group on questions regarding the reinstatement rights and benefits available to employees with work related injuries.
We counsel developers and contractors on a variety of bond issues, such as the types of bonds to request, the wording of the bonds and use of project bonding programs or alternatives such as contractor default insurance or letters of credit. We have also aided our clients in requesting and requiring suretys to perform on their bonds.
Members of our team frequently lecture and teach about construction law and the related issues surrounding this industry and have recently provided seminars, at the request of some of this State's largest insurers, to inform their insureds on recent construction-related legal issues.
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