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Sherman joins Robinson+Cole

Kenneth Sherman,
Robinson+Cole

Boston, MA Robinson+Cole (R+C) has added Kenneth Sherman as counsel in the firm’s construction practice. He is an experienced construction attorney with significant construction litigation and transactional experience. Sherman assists project owners, developers, general contractors, construction managers, and sub-contractors in construction disputes. He also assists clients in the construction industry with contract drafting, negotiation, licensure, and entity formation.

Sherman has close to a decade of experience litigating construction disputes, which includes securing a multi-million dollar recovery for a multinational energy conglomerate in a breach of engineering, procurement, and construction action to protecting individual homeowners’ interests during home renovations. Sherman has experience with a variety of matters, including breach of contract disputes, surety and bond claims, Miller Act claims, mechanic’s lien recovery and defense actions, delay and time impact claims, and construction defect disputes.

In addition to prosecuting and defending construction clients in disputes, Sherman also counsels clients in the construction delivery process, including the drafting and review of all forms of design, construction and consultant agreements. He has experience negotiating and amending standard industry form agreements such as AIA, DBIA and ConsensusDocs, and preparing other forms of agreement, such as turnkey agreements, equipment charters, and other ancillary documents for construction management firms, trade contractors, design professionals, architects, engineers and interior designers. Sherman is also experienced in securing firm-and-individual licensure and registration for design professionals in many states. He is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.

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