David A.Blake

Partner

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Based on his more than 25 years of experience, David creates and implements strategies that drive successful client outcomes during all phases of a construction project, including contract selection and drafting, project administration, and dispute resolution.


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Companies working in the construction industry must navigate complex contracts, project administration challenges, and contentious claims. David guides his clients to successful outcomes on all of those fronts. David drafts and negotiates effective construction, construction management, design-build, EPC, design, and equipment purchase agreements. During the course of a project, David assists his clients in resolving construction and design issues in a practical and creative manner. When controversies persist, David prosecutes and defends requests for equitable adjustment and claims for issues such as delay, labor inefficiency, and extra work. David is a strong advocate of alternative dispute resolution, and he has successfully settled numerous disputes through mediation. He is also an experienced litigator, representing his clients before state and federal courts, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, and the American Arbitration Association.

David holds an undergraduate degree in architecture, and he has been an LEED-accredited professional since 2006. As such, he offers his clients a rare background that is particularly valuable given the technically oriented nature of construction law.

Since 1994, David has represented his clients on a wide array of private and public construction projects—including foreign embassies, professional sports stadiums, commercial office and mixed-use buildings, high rise residential, courthouses, hospitals, schools, airports, marine ports, highways, refineries, hydro, solar and biomass power generation, industrial facilities, and waste water treatment plants. He is proud to have worked on hundreds of projects with an aggregate value well in excess of $10 billion.

  • JD, The Catholic University of America

    Cum laude

  • BA, The Catholic University of America
    Architecture

    Cum laude

  • District of Columbia
  • Virginia
  • US District Court, District of Columbia