Andrews Myers, P.C.

Construction: Alternative Dispute Resolution and Construction

Practice Areas:

Complex Construction and Engineering Claims
Litigation
Arbitration and Mediation
Energy

For more than 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.

• Fellow, American College of Construction Lawyers
• Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• AV© Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating (5.0 out of 5), Martindale-Hubbell
• “Texas Super Lawyers,” as presented by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Business, in Texas Monthly, Construction Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Since 2004
• Best Lawyers® 2019 & 2024 Construction Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Houston
• Top 100 Houston Area Super Lawyers, Texas Super Lawyers® by Thomson Reuters, 2007 – 2009, 2011, 2014- 2023
• Houston’s Top Lawyers – Arbitration & Mediation, Houstonia Magazine, 2022
• Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers, Texas Super Lawyers® by Thomson Reuters, 2008, 2014, 2018 – 2020
• “America’s Top 30 Construction Lawyers,” The Best of the Best, USA by Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides, 2012
• Best Lawyers® 2012 Construction-Litigation “Lawyer of the Year” in Houston
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Arbitration, Litigation-Construction and Construction Law, since 2006
• The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (Construction), by Law Research Business Ltd., Since 2005
• Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Since 2004
• 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

• 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