Partners
- Christopher P. McCabe
- Matthew S. Quinn
Christopher P. McCabe
Christopher P. McCabe has extensive experience representing construction industry clients in connection with complex multi-party design and construction claims in mediations, arbitrations and litigations nationally. Mr. McCabe provides corporate services to the firm’s construction industry clients, including the preparation of shareholder and partnership agreements, agreements relating to the transfer of interests in partnerships and corporations, and employment agreements. He also negotiates and provides advice with respect to agreements relating to the design and construction of projects. Mr. McCabe provides general counseling services advising clients on business-related matters, insurance issues and employment policies and practices. Mr. McCabe’s experience working in his family’s mechanical contracting and real estate development firms provides him with unique insight and expertise in handling construction and real estate related matters.
Mr. McCabe received his bachelor’s degree from Fairfield University in 1992 where he was inducted into the Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society. He received his law degree from New York Law School in 1995. He was admitted to the Connecticut State Bar in 1995, to the New York State Bar and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York in 1996, and to the New Jersey State Bar in 1999. He is the co-author of the Chapter, “Insurance and Surety Bonds Relating to the Design and Construction Industries” in New York Construction Law, published by Aspen Publishers, Inc. (March 2003). Mr. McCabe has also published numerous articles including “Reducing Professional Liability Insurance Premiums” in the New York Real Estate Journal and ACEC News on Line and “Limiting Design Professionals’ Exposure to Errors and Omissions Claims” in the New York Real Estate Journal. Mr. McCabe is the former co-chair to the AIA New York State/ACEC New York Practice Advisory Committee on Consultants. He is a member of the ACEC New York, the Connecticut Building Congress, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Connecticut Bar Association. Mr. McCabe has lectured at Polytechnic University, Pace University and other venues on a variety of construction-related issues, including “Design Build Contracts”, “Think Before You Act: The Design Professional’s Guide to Risk Management in Today’s Market” and “Concrete A-Z”.
Representative Matters
- Successfully mediated claims of United States General Services Administration against the architectural and mechanical engineering firms on a federal courthouse project in connection with a $91 million delay and impact claim by the general contractor and subsequently represented the General Services Administration in the action entitled Turner Construction Corporation v. United States General Services Administration, a 130-day federal trial.
- Successfully mediated claims of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the owner of the Registry of Motor Vehicles Building in Boston, Massachusetts, and fourteen personal injury plaintiffs against a mechanical engineering firm in In re: Ruggles Center Litigation, one of the largest indoor air quality litigations in the United States.
- Successfully represented a national structural engineering firm in an investigation by OSHA relating to a partial collapse of a pre-cast concrete parking garage in Atlantic City, New Jersey during construction.
- Represented a design-build contractor and City of Danbury in connection with Connecticut Concrete Corporation v. City of Danbury, et. al., a three-week trial of delay, impact and additional work claims by one of the largest concrete subcontractors in Connecticut.
- Successfully formed an international mechanical engineering firm composed of members from the United States and Australia.
- Successfully negotiated the settlement of a contract dispute between an international custom cabinetry product supplier and a major New York kitchen contractor concerning over 15 major residential tower projects in the New York metropolitan area.
- Successfully negotiated settlement of a claim in excess of $1.5 million by New York City School Construction Authority against a mechanical engineering firm acting as the prime consultant on a major school renovation project for errors and omissions based upon over 300 change orders issued to general contractor.
- Obtained dismissal of claims against a structural engineering firm in connection with the partial collapse of a neighboring building during underpinning and excavation support activities.
- Successfully represented the New York City Transit Authority in obtaining the dismissal of employment discrimination claims in asserted by employees of the New York City Transit Authority based upon 14 years of alleged discriminatory treatment.
- Currently representing Cooperative Corporation in an over $4 Million claim resulting from improper pile driving operations at adjacent site.
- Currently representing owner of mixed use building in connection with damage caused by improper excavation and excavation support activities at adjacent site.