Our services differ from traditional legal counsel services
Buckley & Leaders offers consulting services that supplement office managers, risk managers and contract negotiators. Our experience with international contractors, designers and project owners provides us with a practical approach to analyzing and resolving design and construction industry problems. More importantly, our familiarity with the root causes of common problems allows us to develop effective programs for our clients and their projects.

We offer:

• New ideas and options for recurring problems
• Identification of potential problems and strategies for practical, cost effective solutions
• Tools and resources for quick implementation and consistent performance
• Training and coaching for management and staff to improve internal performance and reduce reliance on legal counsel
• More successful project results!

Our clients appreciate our innovative solutions
Buckley & Leaders works with clients to jointly create solutions and strategies that work. Clients use us to negotiate mitigation strategies that permit our clients work on projects previously considered to have too much risk. We have successfully implemented programs that have allowed our clients to realize significant cost savings through several internal training programs that reduced the frequency of claims and reduced insurance premiums. Our aggressive dispute resolution programs achieve fast, creative and successful resolution of disputes.

Contact us for information on how to create programs and solutions like these:

• Revised contract management services programs of a design professional firm, reducing claims by 95% through increased focus on partnering, dispute avoidance and improved project communications.
• Negotiated and developed risk mitigation contracts and contract management processes for 8 year $10 million high risk dam rehabilitation with significant interruption risk.
• Provided quality assurance review and assessment of risk allocation program for design/build tunnel bid documents for Seattle area rapid transit agency.
• Developed and implemented a new payment recovery program for a design firm, improving collections by $500,000 annually, through better contracts and improved contract management.

Contact us for information on our experiences or for more information on how you too can benefit from contracts and legal consulting services of Buckley & Leaders.