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SERVICES
HURTADO, S.C., Counselors at Law, is a Milwaukee/Waukesha
area law firm focused on serving the varying legal needs of its clients in
the areas of construction, real estate and public finance law throughout Wisconsin, nationally and
internationally.
Our
firm is AV-Rated, listed with the Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace,
and is a certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE/EBE/DBE). We have significant experience
representing individuals, contractors, developers, owners, materials
suppliers, public and quasi-public entities, non-profit organizations, and
title companies having project-specific or long-term real estate
development and construction needs.
We also provide long term strategic planning, life-cycle analysis
and business development to both emerging and established businesses, with
a special emphasis on environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient project
development.
We
believe that each client the firm represents deserves to have its legal
services custom-tailored to its particularized goals. As a result, we staff our projects
such that a committed group of specific attorneys and paralegals take the
time to get to know our client's personnel and ongoing business needs. Our
team continues to remain involved in each subsequent project to maintain
high quality, cost-effective, and timely delivery of legal services with
integrity, creativity and dependability.
Construction/Project
Development/Real Estate
HURTADO, S.C. provides legal counseling
and project documentation for the development, financing, acquisition,
design, construction, turn-over and management of privately- and
publicly-funded residential and commercial projects. This work includes the
creation and ongoing operational advice for quasi-governmental
public/private construction partnerships for the development of public infrastructure;
creation and expansion of senior and disabled assisted living and
low-income housing facilities; mixed-use business parks; technology
incubators; condominium associations and subdivisions; health care and
educational facilities; and "best value", design/build, turnkey
and build-operate-transfer (BOT) construction of commercial and industrial
projects.
Hurtado, S.C. also provides legal
assistance for long term strategic planning, life-cycle analysis and
business development to both emerging and established businesses, with a
special emphasis on environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient project
development.
Dispute
Resolution
Although the firm
strongly advocates partnering and integrates dispute avoidance strategies
in all of its business services to help ensure project success, Hurtado, S.C. provides full litigation,
arbitration and mediation services to assist in the most pragmatic and
cost-effective resolution of business disputes possible.
Our dispute
resolution services, via negotiation, mediation, arbitration, mini-trial,
dispute review board, administrative hearing and litigation in state and
federal courts.
We have experience with a
wide variety of issues and claims arising out of preparation and
negotiation of architectural, structural, interior design, construction,
construction management, subcontractor, design/build, owner's
representative, and construction consultant contracts; air rights and site
access agreements; construction permitting; public notice and bidding
disputes; bid, payment and performance bond claims; copyright infringement
of construction designs; project delays, claims for extras and backcharges,
contract interpretation, patent and hidden structural defects, errors and
omissions in design, fraud and misrepresentation, slander of title, theft
by contractor, breach of guaranty, breach of public officals-ministerial
and discretionary administrative duties, construction employment and labor
relations disputes, environmental issues and other claims; preparation of
construction lien documentation, including perfecting, bringing and
defending construction lien foreclosure through Sheriff's sale
confirmation; preparation of public and private bond documentation,
including perfecting, bringing and defending public and private bond
claims; assistance in preparation of submittals for qualification of firms
as MBE, WBE, EBE, DBE and §8(a) SBE certification and appeal of denial
of certification; preparation and defense of "open records" and
Freedom of Information Act requests; construction management and
administration claims regarding utilization of project computer websites,
critical path scheduling, payment application processing, change orders and
termination issues; and claims relating to insurance coverage, including
analysis of legislative changes effecting coverage rights and obligations.
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