SERVICES

HURTADO, S.C., Counselors at Law, is a Wisconsin law firm focusing its practice on matters involving project development, real property and construction law. The firm is AV-Rated and is a certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE/EBE/DBE) with significant experience representing contractors, developers, public and quasi-public entities, non-profit organizations, and title companies having project-specific or long-term real estate development and construction needs.

Hurtado, S.C. believes that each entity the firm represents deserves to have its legal services custom-tailored to its particularized needs. 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 then continues to remain involved in each subsequent project to maintain high quality, timely delivery of legal services.

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, address 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.