Gregory, chair of the firm’s Construction, Litigation and Mediation Services practice areas, primarily represents subcontractors, suppliers, architects, owners, contractors and others in the construction industry. He has been with Kegler Brown since 1987.
Construction Advice to Minimize Risk Don enjoys providing practical preventative advice on all aspects of a project, from bid to punchlist, including: bidding (responsibility, responsiveness, mistaken bids, and conditional bids); construction contracts (review and revision of AIA, AGC, ConsensusDOCS and other trade association forms, design-build, construction manager, architect, contractor and subcontractor agreements, purchase orders, and special clauses, such as No Damage for Delay and Contingent Payment); and risk management (insurance and indemnity).
Construction Litigation Don has been involved in many of the most sizeable and important cases impacting the construction industry over the last 25 years, including disputes concerning: bid challenges, claims (differing site conditions, defects, defaults and performance bond claims, change order disputes, equitable adjustments, and liquidated damages); mechanic’s liens (notices of furnishing, notices of commencement, lien waivers, lien filings, and foreclosures); and prompt payment (collections, payment bond claims, and recovery of interest and attorney’s fees under federal and state prompt payment acts).
Alternative Dispute Resolution Don is active both as an advocate in the ADR process, and regularly serving as a mediator and arbitrator solving complex construction disputes. He has experience utilizing arbitration, mediation, dispute review boards, partnering and summary jury trials.
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Gregory, chair of the firm’s Construction, Litigation and Mediation Services practice areas, primarily represents subcontractors, suppliers, architects, owners, contractors and others in the construction industry. He has been with Kegler Brown since 1987.
Construction Advice to Minimize Risk Don enjoys providing practical preventative advice on all aspects of a project, from bid to punchlist, including: bidding (responsibility, responsiveness, mistaken bids, and conditional bids); construction contracts (review and revision of AIA, AGC, ConsensusDOCS and other trade association forms, design-build, construction manager, architect, contractor and subcontractor agreements, purchase orders, and special clauses, such as No Damage for Delay and Contingent Payment); and risk management (insurance and indemnity).
Construction Litigation Don has been involved in many of the most sizeable and important cases impacting the construction industry over the last 25 years, including disputes concerning: bid challenges, claims (differing site conditions, defects, defaults and performance bond claims, change order disputes, equitable adjustments, and liquidated damages); mechanic’s liens (notices of furnishing, notices of commencement, lien waivers, lien filings, and foreclosures); and prompt payment (collections, payment bond claims, and recovery of interest and attorney’s fees under federal and state prompt payment acts).
Alternative Dispute Resolution Don is active both as an advocate in the ADR process, and regularly serving as a mediator and arbitrator solving complex construction disputes. He has experience utilizing arbitration, mediation, dispute review boards, partnering and summary jury trials.
View Don's Mediation Qualifications
Career Highlights - Recognized as an attorney who is “practical and forceful in providing the full range of services to his clients” by Chambers USA, a service that honors “America’s Leading Business Lawyers.”
- Honored as one of less than ten attorneys in Ohio recognized by The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers for expertise in construction law.
- Recognized in “The Best Lawyers in America,” as “one of Columbus’s top lawyers” in Business First’s “The Verdict,” and in “Ohio Super Lawyers,” by Law & Politics magazine as one of the "Top 50" attorneys in Columbus.
- Drafted Ohio’s first Prompt Payment Act, which became a model for other states.
- Project counsel on Ohio’s largest arena, stadium, school and highway construction projects.
- Summitted mountains in North and South America, including Chimborazo, Cirque of the Towers, Devil’s Tower, Gannett Peak, Grand Teton and Rainier.
Professional Memberships - American Arbitration Association, National "Blue Ribbon" Panel of Arbitrators, member
- American Bar Association, Construction Forum, member
- American Subcontractors Association, general counsel
- Association of the Wall & Ceiling Industry, general counsel
- National Ground Water Association, general counsel
Publications & Presentations - The 2011 Comprehensive Update to ConsensusDOCS, The Construction Lawyer, Summer 2011
- Ethical Challenges of Bid Shopping, The Construction Lawyer, Summer 2010
- ADR in the New AIA & ConsensusDOCS, American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section, Seattle, Washington, presented April 4, 2008
- Contract Clauses That Can Kill You, National Association of Elevator Contractors, Orlando, Florida, presented September 13, 2006
- Retainage Reform, American Bar Association Construction Forum, San Francisco, California, presented April 18, 2002
- Contract Clauses, Ceilings & Interior Systems Construction Association, Tampa, Florida, presented April 21, 2001
- Risk Transfer, American Subcontractors Association, Chicago, Illinois, presented March 13, 2001
Bar Admissions Education - Juris Doctorate (1982)
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law - Bachelor of Arts, History (1979)
Miami University
Cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa honor society