Stephen E. Richman is a shareholder of Mariscal, Weeks, McIntyre & Friedlander and he practices in all phases of Construction Law, commercial and residential.

Steve is a past chair of the Construction Law Section of the State Bar and is a member of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry. He is also active in a variety of industry trade organizations. Steve is the General Counsel for the Arizona Rock Products Association. He is also active in the Arizona Builders Alliance, where he is a member of the Legislative Review Committee and the Legal Advisory Council. Steve is also a member of the Construction Law Attorney Forum of the National Association of Home Builders. He has written several articles and given seminars on such topics as managing construction defect risks, handling mold claims, design build construction, the AIA construction contract documents, risk-shifting contract clauses, lien laws, legislative amendments affecting the construction industry, alternative dispute resolution, and insurance/indemnification issues. Recent representative seminars at which Steve has spoken are listed below. Steve is also a member of the American Arbitration Association’s construction industry panel and has served as an arbitrator of construction disputes on numerous occasions. In addition to handling claims involving all aspects of real estate development, Steve’s practice includes the drafting and negotiation of construction agreements, both for developers and contractors.

Steve is a 1982 graduate, cum laude, of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he served as Assisting Managing Editor of the The Hastings Law Journal and attained the academic honoraries of the Order of the Coif and the Thurston Society. Steve is also listed in the publications The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers as a construction law practitioner.

Representative clients include: Pulte Homes, Inc.; Shea Homes Limited Partnership; Brown Family Communities; Toll Brothers; McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.; Core Construction Services of Arizona, Inc.; J. Banicki Construction, Inc.; FNF Construction Company; The Fishel Company and Johnson Carlier, Inc.

Recent Seminar Presentations

Sponsor: State Bar of Arizona

• November, 2007: Arizona’s Prompt Pay Act
  
• September, 2007: Procedural Motions to Dismiss
  
• April, 2007: Private Arbitration Updates
  
• February, 2006: Litigating the Multi-Party Construction Case

Sponsor: Arizona Builders Alliance

• April, 2007: Change Orders: Best Practices
  
• April, 2007: Arizona Lien and Stop Notice Law

Sponsor: National Builders Institute

• January, 2007: Resolving Disputes on Construction Projects