P&A Law - Firm Overview

Peckar & Abramson is one of the nation’s leading construction law firms, routinely handling clients’ needs throughout the United States and the world. Since its formation in 1978, Peckar & Abramson has been helping clients find solutions, settle disputes, and, when necessary, win legal battles. Our goal is to assist our clients in carrying out successful projects from start to finish by resolving issues as they arise, instead of through costly and time consuming legal proceedings after the project has been completed. We are privileged to represent many of the construction industry’s most successful contractors and other construction professionals as well as serve as counsel to many industry organizations.

Our expertise extends beyond construction law. Peckar & Abramson has an extensive government contract law and corporate compliance practice. We are fortunate to represent some of the nation’s leading defense, transportation, information technology and service contractors in the entire spectrum of legal issues facing Government contractors today. We counsel our Government contractor clients in all aspects of doing business with federal, state and local governments, including business planning, proposal preparation, bid protests, contract negotiation and administration, claims preparation and litigation and corporate ethics and compliance.

Peckar & Abramson also offers labor relations and employment law services to every type of business from Fortune 100 companies, and privately held corporations, to small family-owned firms in diverse industries. Our labor relations and employment group shares the firm’s long-standing commitment to high quality professional service by providing clients with a comprehensive package of employment and labor relations services and expertise that extends beyond traditional litigation. Our attorneys help clients create a productive and safe workplace through preventive measures, practical problem solving, sensible risk management and strategic dispute resolution.

To complement our construction, government contracts, and labor relations and employment law practices, Peckar & Abramson also offers our clients corporate compliance, real estate, and environmental law services. Our corporate and real estate groups serve a wide range of clients, from entrepreneurs to small investment banks to large multinational enterprises in many industries, including the construction industry. The environmental law group helps businesses anticipate and prevent costly environmental problems.

With offices throughout the country and affiliations with other law firms around the world, through its membership in the International Construction Law Alliance (ICLA), Peckar & Abramson offers a full range of construction and government contracts related services to its domestic and international clientele.

November 2009

Tom Curran is the program Co-Chair for a seminar, sponsored by the New York City Bar Center for CLE, entitled "Obtaining Evidence Overseas: Strategies & Insights For Overcoming The Investigation Hurdles". The seminar is on December 1st from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the New York City Bar. For more information or to register for the seminar please click here.

Matt Coglianese recently co-authored a chapter entitled "Sustainable Design and Construction: When Green Turns Red" in Risk Management for Design Professionals in a World of Change. Mr. Coglianese's chapter discusses the risks involved in "green" building construction and how to manage them. For more information, please click here.

Steve Charney served as the co-chair of the ConsensusDOCS and the AGC committees for the development and drafting of the first and only standard form agreement for "green" construction. This landmark document is the first to recognize the need for someone to lead "green" building issues and addresses, in detail, a process for parties to follow in developing a "green" project, as well as the structure for dealing with the liability issues associated with "green" construction. This contract document, ConsensusDOCS 310, was published on November 10, 2009. Additionally, Mr. Charney and Tom Thompson recently spoke about this issue and other strategies for identifying and managing the risks involved with "green" construction at the IRMI Construction Risk Conference on November 2nd in Washington, DC.

Mr. Charney will be speaking on this topic at a webinar, sponsored by ConsensusDOCS, entitled "Introducing the ConsensusDocs 310: From Beginning to the Industry's First Green Building Addendum" on December 2 from 2:00 p.m to 3:30 pm. Please click here for more information or to register for the webinar.

Please click here for more information on the Green Building Addendum from ConscensusDOCS.

Patrick Greene and Tom Thompson have recently published an article entitled "Stimulus Funds" in the Fall issue of Building & Construction Northeast. Please click here to read the article.

October 2009

Peckar & Abramson is pleased to announce that the following attorneys have been chosen as 2009 New York Super Lawyers in Construction Law: Richard Abramson, Steve Charney, Gregory Chertoff, Robert Drucker, Patrick J.Greene, Charlie Kenny, Bruce Meller, Paul Monte, Bob Peckar, Howard Rosen and Charles Williams. Thomas J. Curran was chosen as Super Lawyer in White Collar Criminal Defense. Bob Peckar was also chosen as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in the metro New York area. "Only five percent of New York Metro attorneys have been named to the Super Lawyers list. The selection process is based on peer nominations, blue ribbon panel review and independent research.

Client Alert: Update: DOB Revisions to the Safety Registration Number Application Process

David J. Scriven-Young has joined the firm as an associate in our Chicago office.