Insights Whelan Lawyers – Melbourne Commercial, Franchising & Construction Lawyers

Most builders I work with can price a job to the dollar, sequence trades in their sleep and read a set of drawings faster than any lawyer. Far fewer have read every clause of the contract they are about to sign. That is understandable. Contracts arrive late, the client is eager to start, and the document looks much like the last one. Yet it is the contract, not the drawings, that decides who carries the cost of a wet winter, an unexpected rock shelf or a client who stops payi

Construction lawyers advise builders, developers, subcontractors, consultants and property owners on the legal side of building projects. They draft and negotiate construction contracts, manage risk and payment obligations, recover money owed under security of payment laws, and resolve disputes about defects, delays and variations, from tender through to practical completion and beyond.