Eric B. Travers Director (614) 462-5473 •     Download vCard Construction Law Litigation

Practice Focus

Primarily assists clients with construction law matters. Representative clients include subcontractors, suppliers, architects, owners, contractors and others in the construction industry.

Career Highlights

Successfully represented client in winning preliminary dismissal of multi-million dollar contribution claim against client in Kohl's Dept. Stores Inc. v. Target Stores Corp., 214 F.R.D. 406 (E.D. Va., 2003), a case arising out of major commercial construction of a shopping center complex.

Successfully represented subcontractor client in winning more than $1.5 million from surety in R.W. Granger & Sons, Inc. v. J&S Insulation, Inc., 754 N.E. 2d 668 (Mass. 2001), a judgment unanimously affirmed by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in a dispute arising out of a bond claim for work performed on Boston's Logan International Airport.

Successfully represented client in achieving preliminary dismissal of change order claim suit, affirmed by unanimous Virginia Supreme Court in Gelles & Sons General Contracting, Inc. v. Jeffrey Stack, Inc., 569 S.E. 2d 406 (Va., 2002).

Professional Memberships and Volunteer Activities

• American Bar Association, Construction Litigation committee, member
• Columbus Bar Association, member
• Maryland State Bar Association, member
• Ohio State Bar Association, member
• Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity, member
• Virginia State Bar, member

Publications and Presentations

National speaker and seminar lecturer on construction law topics to trade association and industry groups, including the American Subcontractors Association, National Electrical Contractors Association, Lorman Education Services and others.

Published author of numerous construction law topics, including articles on mechanic's lien law, surety claims, contract negotiation, changes, defects, delay claims and contractual risk transfer for publications of the International Risk Management Institute, the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Subcontractors Association, the Construction Management Association of America and others.

Bar Admissions

• Maryland
• Ohio
• Virginia
• U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Education

Juris Doctorate (1998)
The George Washington University Law School

Bachelor of Arts, English and Political Science (1995)
Lake Forest College
Cum laude