Practices:

• Global Infrastructure and Public-Private Partnerships
• Government Contracts
  • Claims and Terminations
  • Construction
  • Cost Accounting
• Litigation
  • Business Disputes / Commercial
  • Construction Litigation
  • Fraud and Criminal Investigations

Industries

• Construction and Engineering

Experience

Laurence R. Phillips's significant litigation experience includes the representation of contractors, public entities, real estate developers, manufacturers and other clients and their sureties and insurers in the mediation, arbitration, trial and appeal of complex matters concerning government and private contract disputes, commercial disputes, lease disputes, real estate/land-use disputes and construction disputes; including payment and performance bond claims, changed conditions claims, delay and disruption claims, prompt payment issues, stop notice and mechanic's lien claims, latent and patent defects in construction and design, products liability and professional liability.

Mr. Phillips has in-depth knowledge of government contracting law and competitive bidding requirements. His range of experience in those fields includes bid protests, subcontractor listing issues, termination issues, Miller Act claims and actions under the California and Federal False Claims Acts. He has been instrumental in successfully defending clients against alleged false claims in excess of $50 million.

Mr. Phillips also has significant experience negotiating and drafting public and private works construction contracts, joint venture agreements, commercial leases, work letters, real estate purchase and sale agreements, escrow instructions and related loan documents.

Mr. Phillips lectures on issues of contract formation/negotiation and is a contributing author to Aspen Publishers' Construction Law Update, which is published annually and distributed nationally.

He received a J.D. from the Pepperdine University School of Law and a B.A.  from the University of California, San Diego. Prior to starting law school, Phillips traveled and worked extensively in Caracas, Venezuela and Lima, Peru and is fluent in Spanish. 

Education

• J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law, 1997
• B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1993

Admitted

• California
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado