Few law firms in the United States can provide a more powerful service mix to clients involved in complex, sophisticated and difficult construction projects. The attorneys in the firm's Construction Service Group combine top-flight legal credentials with practical, real-world experience in the evolving, day-to-day problems of the construction industry. Members of the group include three Fellows of the American College of Construction Lawyers—an honor reserved for the top 1% of the construction bar in the U.S.

The firm's lawyers provide legal advice to construction trade associations and similar organizations on a wide range of topics, including corporate governance and membership, contracts, employment law, benefit plans, tax, code interpretation and enforcement, and antitrust issues and intellectual property rights. Among the construction trade associations that Stites & Harbison represents are the American Institute of Steel Construction, National Steel Bridge Alliance and the Associated General Contractors of Kentucky.

The group's practice extends from coast to coast and includes representation of client interests overseas. Here's a partial list of representative transactional and adversarial construction engagements in which the members of the group have been involved:

• Delta Wing, Opryland, Nashville, Tenn.

• Disney-MGM Studios Water Tower, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

• Federal Express World Headquarters, Memphis, Tenn.

• GlaxoSmithKline, Memphis, Tenn.

• Holder Construction Company: Stites & Harbison's Atlanta offices

• Indiana-American Water Company, Jeffersonville, Ind.

• Gray Construction, Lexington, Ky.

• Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Board (Blue Grass Airport, Lexington, Ky.)

• Lexington-Fayette Urban County Courts Facilities, Lexington, Ky.

• Lexington-Fayette Urban County Detention Facility, Lexington, Ky.

• Louisville Airport Improvement Program, Louisville, Ky.

• Louisville Slugger Museum, Louisville, Ky.

• Mercer University Center, Macon, Ga.

• National Corvette Museum, Bowling Green, Ky.

• National Steel Bridge Alliance, Miss.

• Precision Walls, Inc.: Biltmore Inn, Asheville, N.C.

• Sundial Bridge, Redding, Calif.

• Waterfront Park, Louisville, Ky.

The Construction service group includes former contractors, construction owners, engineers and journeymen craftspeople. They are regularly recruited to write on current construction issues and to provide practical, educational programs to industry trade associations and professional societies, as well as to members of the organized national construction bar. For example, one of our attorneys, Stephen M. Reams, serves as a national instructor for the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA). He teaches DBIA certification courses throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Other contributions from the group include:

• The Construction Contracts Book, Stephen M. Reams is co-author of a chapter concerning ConsensusDOCS, published by ABA Construction Law Forum, second edition, summer 2008.

• Kentucky Construction Law, written and edited by the construction attorneys of Stites & Harbison, published by HLK Global Communications, 2007.

• Discovery Deskbook for Construction Law Disputes, Buckner Hinkle, Jr., is a co-editor and chapter author, Robert M. Connolly is a chapter author, published by ABA Publishing, 2006.

• The Design/Build Deskbook, Anne E. Gorham is a co-editor (first, second and third editions) and Ryan R. Loghry is the Indiana chapter author (third edition), published by the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, 2004.

• AGC Contract Documents Handbook, Buckner Hinkle, Jr., is a contributing author, Aspen Publishers, 2003.

• Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law, Buckner Hinkle, Jr., is a contributing author, Aspen Law & Business, 2000-present.

• State-By-State Guide To Architect, Engineer and Contractor Licensing, Buckner Hinkle, Jr., is a contributing author, Aspen Publishers, 1998-present.

• Fifty State Public Construction Contracting, Buckner Hinkle, Jr., is a contributing author, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.

Stites & Harbison's Construction attorneys are members of major construction organizations where they serve as officers, board members, speakers and authors. Our attorneys participated in the preparation of American Institute of Steel Construction Codes, Standards and Specifications. Our attorneys have also consulted with the American Institute of Architects and the Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee on formation of the standard construction documents by those organizations.

More than 20 attorneys with the firm, including members of this service group, have technical backgrounds, including several engineering disciplines and all of the natural sciences.