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Bill Andrews

(713) 850-4212 wandrews@andrewsmyers.com

Work Department

Construction: Alternative Dispute Resolution and Construction

Position

Practice Areas:

Complex Construction and Engineering Claims
Litigation
Arbitration and Mediation
Energy

Career

For 40 years, Bill Andrews, a leading construction attorney in Houston, has practiced construction law , focusing on construction-related claims, lawsuits, mediations and arbitrations . He has represented owners, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, suppliers and engineering firms on a wide variety of construction-related projects.

His experience in claims, trials, arbitrations and mediations includes projects such as highways and bridges, public works projects, commercial and retail construction, industrial and warehouse facilities, hospitals and health care facilities, power plants (including simple cycle and cogeneration plants), pipelines, petrochemical plants, refineries, chemical plants, gas processing plants, cryogenic plants, schools, multi-family housing and environmental remediation projects. He has represented several EPC firms in disputes and claims involving large plants. He also has significant experience representing owners, contractors and engineering firms in claims and disputes involving upstream, midstream and downstream facilities.

Bill has tried to verdict and arbitrated to award more than 75 construction cases. Since 1988, he has been a member of the American Arbitration Association’s National Panel of Construction Arbitrators and has served as a construction mediator since 1998. He is a member of the American Arbitration Association’s Large Complex Construction Case Panel of Arbitrators and was recently approved by the AAA’s National Construction Dispute Resolution Committee as a member of its Construction Arbitration Master Panel.

Memberships

American Arbitration Association, Arbitrator
State Bar of Texas, Construction Law Section Member (Federal Judiciary Appointments Committee, 1984-1986;
Governing Council, 1990-1992; Treasurer, 2009-2010; Secretary, 2010-2011; Vice-Chair, 2011-2012 and Chair, 2012-2013
Houston Bar Association, Construction Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution Member (Member, Governing Council, Construction Law Section, 1989-1990)
American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry
Associated Builders and Contractors
The Associated General Contractors of America

Education

• University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas
  • J.D. (cum laude) – 1978
  • Order of the Barons
• The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
  • B.A. – 1974