Homebuilding

OVERVIEW

Jordan Ramis knows the homebuilding industry. For more than 50 years, we have worked locally and regionally with the nation’s preeminent developers and builders. We are known in the Pacific Northwest as the Dirt Law® firm because of our experience in real estate, land use, environmental, construction, water, and natural resources law. Our clients get dedicated service with the comfort of knowing that their matters are handled by attorneys with strong industry knowledge and the requisite legal experience. Our full spectrum of legal services to the homebuilding industry includes:

• Administrative law and regulatory compliance
• Annexation
• Complex disputes and impact claims including litigation, arbitration, and mediation
• Condominium law
• Construction law, construction financing, and construction warranty claims
• Construction liens, bond claims, notices, and collections
• Corporate counsel and business law
• Creditors’ rights and bankruptcy, credit workouts, and reorganizations
• Development agreements
• Employment law matters
• Environmental due diligence and cleanup
• Equipment lease and purchase financing transactions
• Federal permitting, including the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act
• Government relations, including hearings and public meetings
• Joint ventures and public-private partnerships
• Land use applications, permitting, hearings, and appeals
• Litigation, arbitration, and mediation
• Local improvement and zone of benefit districts
• LUBA and LUPA appeals
• Ownership, shareholder, and transition or succession planning issues
• Professional liability
• Property acquisition, sale, and boundary disputes
• Storm water issues
• Subdivisions (platting)
• Title and surveys
• Urban growth boundaries
• Urbanization land financing
• Water and natural resource concerns

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