Adam E. Richards

Adam E. Richards is a member of the firm's Dispute Resolution Team and co-leads the firm’s Construction Law practice team. He is a Board Certified Specialist in Construction Law by The Florida Bar and focuses his practice on construction, providing transactional, project consultation, and dispute resolution/litigation services to Florida’s construction industry, including national and international general contractors, owners/developers, associations, local builders/trades, and design professionals in the public and private sectors. Adam is resident in the firm's Fort Lauderdale office. 

Adam has dealt with a wide range of construction projects throughout the state, including hotels, courthouses, treatment plants, residential/commercial buildings including one of the tallest in the country, restaurants, a major expressway in Miami as well as other road improvements, and luxury homes. 

Adam began his legal career in the construction defect group of a regional law firm, where he became intimately familiar with the role of insurance in construction, recovery, as well as defending claims and lawsuits. He then worked at a boutique law firm routinely drafting and revising AIA Construction Agreements in connection with a multitude of construction projects.  Notably, his experience also includes a role as General Counsel and Vice President of Operations for the largest residential roofing contractor in South Florida, where he was responsible for all phases of the business from training, contract negotiations, preconstruction, management, closeout, to dispute resolution efforts with customers, trade partners, suppliers and municipalities. 
 
Following his time in-house, Adam joined a large, Orlando-based law firm where he lead the construction practice for the firm’s Fort Lauderdale, and most recently, he litigated multi-million dollar disputes on behalf of national and international general contractors.

Adam’s complex construction experience includes contract disputes, delays, non-payment, lien/bond claims, defects, insurance/loss events, property damage, catastrophic injury/death, inverse condemnation, subrogation, and risk transfer/indemnity in both the state and federal courts throughout Florida.

J.D., cum laude, University of Miami School of Law
B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Law, cum laude, SUNY at Binghamton

Florida
U.S. District Courts, Southern and Middle Districts of Florida

Dispute Resolution

Appellate
Complex Commercial Litigation
Construction
Construction Litigation
Director/Officer Litigation & Partnership Disputes
Infrastructure Projects
Real Estate Litigation