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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.
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