Serving the construction community (including contractors, subcontractors, owners, architects, engineers and sureties) in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and many other regions of the country, Huddles Jones Sorteberg & Dachille, p.c. limits its practice exclusively to construction and government contract law. Firm lawyers hold degrees in architecture and engineering, have served as government counsel, and have extensive construction field experience. Applying this expertise, the firm handles cases involving non-payment, additional services, default terminations, design defects, differing conditions, changes, delays, suspensions of work, acceleration, labor inefficiency, bid mistakes and protests, as well as insurance and surety claims on construction projects of virtually every type.

The services that Huddles Jones Sorteberg & Dachille, p.c. routinely provide include:  conducting mediations and arbitrations; consultations; drafting and reviewing contract documents; preparing draft project correspondence; performing schedule and claim analyses; preparing actual claim submissions; and litigation at both the trial and appellate levels.  Firm lawyers also perform client seminars, write articles for publication, and are often asked to speak at construction-related conferences.

Members of the firm are admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States of America, and before all State and Federal Courts in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.  In addition, certain attorneys are admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Firm attorneys also regularly practice before various government administrative appeal boards, as well as arbitration and mediation tribunals.

The firm’s senior partners, with over 45 years of combined experience practicing construction contract law, established Huddles Jones Sorteberg & Dachille, p.c. in 1995 after litigating construction cases for years as principals in a predecessor law firm.  Since its inception, the firm’s members have provided quality legal representation with a cost-conscious approach to hundreds of clients.