John S. Mrowiec is a founding partner in the firm of Conway & Mrowiec. Mr. Mrowiec represents project participants in arbitration, litigation, mediation, contract drafting and claim preparation. He has tried, arbitrated or mediated several complex cases throughout the United States, most recently, resolving on behalf of a developer, through mediation, a high seven-figure delay and change order claim by a contractor and substantial subcontractor claims and then mediating with the design team regarding responsibility for delay and extra costs on a retail/hotel complex; solving on behalf of a contractor a large lien priority dispute with a lender on an apartment tower; resolving in favor of an international EPC contractor an eight-figure mechanics lien priority dispute with a project lender and a nearly eight-figure claim by a subcontractor on a power plant project. Mr. Mrowiec has drafted and negotiated hundreds of millions of dollars in construction, construction management, design/build and trade contracts.

Mr. Mrowiec is a faculty member at DePaul University’s Real Estate Center, Construction Management Certificate Program, is the law columnist for the McGraw-Hill monthly Midwest Construction for which he has authored over 70 articles, is a co-author of the chapter on general contractors’ mechanics lien rights in the leading publication concerning Illinois mechanics lien rights and co-author of a chapter on Delay Claims for “Construction Change Order Claims 2d” in the Aspen Publishers, Construction Law Library, was selected by his peers to the initial board of Leading Lawyers Network, to “Best Lawyers in America” and Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

In 2000-06, Mr. Mrowiec addressed construction industry groups and authored manuals on the American Institute of Architects’ family of construction contracts and related documents; new developments in construction law; public construction bidding and performance; design/build and construction management contracts and disputes; delay and labor productivity claims; and mechanics lien and payment bond claims.



REPORTED CASES:
Acme Metals, Inc. v. Raytheon Engineers & Constructors, Inc. (In re Acme Metals, Inc.), 257 B.R. 714 (Bankr. Ct. D. Del.2000);
Southwest Financial Bank & Trust Co. v. George Hyman Construction Co., 940 F.Supp. 1331 (N.D.Ill. 1996);
United States f/u/b DJM Construction, Inc. v. Rust Engineering Co., 1996 WL 204318 (N.D.Ill. 1996);
Mellon Stuart Construction, Inc. v. MWRDGC, 1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3493 (N.D.Ill. 1995);
Downey, Inc. v. Bradley Center Corp., 524 N.W.2d 915 (Wis.Ct.App. 1994);
In re KNM Roswell LP, 126 B.R. 548 (Bankr. Ct. N.D.Ill. 1991);
In re Highland Park Associates LP, 130 B.R. 55 (Bankr. Ct. N.D.Ill. 1991);
Mellon Stuart Construction, Inc. v. MWRDGC, 1990 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7669 (N.D.Ill. 1990).