The placement of Chambers-ranked Peter Ippolito, Mark Budwig and Steve Owen. Ippolito handles an international practice encompassing all areas of construction law, including architect and engineer malpractice, federal and state construction litigation, federal government and private construction claims and disputes and hearings before federal and state boards of contract appeal, administrative boards and courts of claim. Budwig has extensive experience in construction law and litigation. He represents design professionals, contractors, subcontractors and owners in a wide variety of actions, ranging from simple lien foreclosures to multi-million dollar construction and engineering extra work claims arising from hotels, pipelines, tunnels, highways, canals, convention centers and other large public works projects. All join from Hillyer & Irwin.