Jones Walker LLP

Our attorneys have experience in negotiating and drafting construction agreements using all of the major industry form contracts, including those of the American Institute of Architects, the Engineers' Joint Contracts Documents Committee, and Consensus DOCS. In addition, we have experience negotiating and preparing customized contracts when form documents cannot be adapted to meet the needs of a particular project.

We provide clients with contracts for a wide array of project delivery systems and compensation systems. We have experience with design-bid-build agreements, design-build contracts, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts, master service and task order agreements, construction management agreements, program management agreements, teaming agreements, and design professional contracts. We have crafted contracts involving a variety of compensation schemes, including lump-sum, cost-plus, good manufacturing practice (GMP), target price, and performance incentives.

A well-drafted contract can help our clients achieve their goals while appropriately allocating risk to the party best able to control the risk. We believe this approach encourages teamwork among project participants, and creates opportunities for solving, rather than litigating, problems.

Representative Matters

• Represent a regional bank in preparing form construction agreements and in negotiating agreements with general contractors, architects and engineers.

• Represent Durr, a large demolition and site preparation contractor, in preparing form agreements and in negotiating agreements with project owners and general contractors.

• Represent a regional engineering firm in negotiating agreements with project owners.

Diversity Mission Statement

Jones Walker LLP strives to encourage, foster and increase diversity across the firm. To this end, the Diversity Committee has adopted the goal of fostering a work environment that welcomes different perspectives, backgrounds and life experiences and ensures that an individual’s professional growth, experience or advancement is not limited because of gender, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or other similar factor.

Purposes of the Diversity Committee

• To increase awareness of the importance of diversity within the firm and of the means by which diversity enriches the firm;
• To encourage all lawyers and staff members to develop mutual respect and appreciation for different perspectives and backgrounds; and
• To develop and implement strategies to assist the firm in recruiting, retaining and advancing staff and lawyers from diverse backgrounds.
• Jones Walker values all employees who contribute positively to the firm’s practice, the firm’s environment, and the greater community we serve.

In 2009, Jones Walker was named to MultiCultural Law Magazine’s list of "Top 100 Law Firms for Women," part of a series of listings of the top 100 law firms for diversity. The listings are compiled based on diversity statistics derived from annual surveys that the publication sends to law firms with more than 100 attorneys.