Presenter Bios:
Chad Wissinger:
Chad has more than twenty years of experience in construction litigation, environmental matters, regulatory compliance, and complex contract negotiations. He has significant first chair trial experience in a wide array of venues (jury trials, bench trials, trials before the Pennsylvania Board of Claims and Environmental Hearing Boards, and both single and three panel arbitrations under the AAA and JAMS/Endispute Rules), having taken claims totaling in excess of fifty-million dollars to verdict. Additionally, he counsels clients on all aspects of regulatory compliance, including preparing for and reacting to incidents and inspections involving OSHA, DEP, EPA, and other regulatory agencies.
Chad currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he co-teaches an Occupational Health and Safety course.
Brian Maloney, PE:
Brian has spent his entire career as a lawyer addressing a range of construction-related issues, including dispute resolution and contract negotiation, representing owners, contractors, sub-contractors, architects, engineers, and other consultants. He is also well-versed in all aspects of state and municipal procurement, including preparing advertisements for bids, bid preparation, and bid protests.
Brian practiced as a civil/structural engineer, designing buildings and investigating existing structures for more than seven years prior to his career as a lawyer. Brian’s engineering and science background provides him with exceptional insight and fluency in the technical, practical and business aspects of construction contracting, claims and disputes.
As comfortable in a room full of engineers and project managers as he is in a courtroom of lawyers, Brian is both a reputable advisor for clients and their project teams, and a skilled advocate, who can translate complex engineering and legal terminology into comprehensible concepts for judges, juries, arbitrators and others. He is particularly adept at evaluating claims by using his engineering and construction industry background to avoid disputes where possible and resolve disputes when necessary.
Brian handles a full range of construction-related disputes – complex contract disputes; all types of cost claims; notice and payment disputes; mechanics’ liens; delay, inefficiency and loss of productivity claims; defect claims; defective specifications, design errors and omissions; and unforeseen and differing site conditions matters.
A go-to resource for construction crisis management, Brian guides and supports clients through crisis situations and government investigations (including OSHA), from initial response through litigation and appeals. He oversees on-site and internal investigations, handles claim documentation, preservation of evidence and contract review, and assists companies managing the response.
