{"id":497,"date":"2020-10-23T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/?p=497"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:12:24","slug":"how-we-won-a-7-9-million-arbitration-award-construction-litigator-talks-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/2020\/10\/23\/how-we-won-a-7-9-million-arbitration-award-construction-litigator-talks-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Won a $7.9 Million Arbitration Award: Construction Litigator Talks Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A real estate investor in an independent living facility in Texas has won a $7.9 million arbitration award against a construction company that delivered a project 179 days late.<\/p>\n<p>The case should serve as a warning bell for integrated developer-owner-contractor companies\u00a0that set up a \u201cspecial purpose entity\u201d for their development projects, said\u00a0<a title=\"Benton Wheatley\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/bentontwheatley.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benton Wheatley<\/a>, partner in Duane Morris in\u00a0<a title=\"Austin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/offices\/austin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Austin<\/a>, who represented plaintiff Montgomery Street Partners.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this article, originally published in <em>Texas Lawyer<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/news\/construction_litigator_talks_shop_1020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A real estate investor in an independent living facility in Texas has won a $7.9 million arbitration award against a construction company that delivered a project 179 days late. The case should serve as a warning bell for integrated developer-owner-contractor companies\u00a0that set up a \u201cspecial purpose entity\u201d for their development projects, said\u00a0Benton Wheatley, partner in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/2020\/10\/23\/how-we-won-a-7-9-million-arbitration-award-construction-litigator-talks-shop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How We Won a $7.9 Million Arbitration Award: Construction Litigator Talks Shop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,560,9,692,694],"ppma_author":[696],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-arbitration","tag-arbitration-award","tag-construction","tag-special-purpose-entity","tag-tracy-mccreight"],"authors":[{"term_id":696,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}