Timothy R. Conway is a founding partner of Conway & Mrowiec, a seven-lawyer Chicago firm which represents contractors, EPC contractors, design/builders, construction managers, trade contractors, architects, owners and sureties. Mr. Conway is a veteran of numerous arbitrations, trials, and mediations. He has represented builders on a wide variety of construction projects, both public and private. These projects have included telecommunications, power plant, monumental public, prisons, wastewater treatment plants, power plants, highways, railroad yards, hospitals, warehouses, high-rise buildings, sports facilities, libraries and shopping centers throughout the United States.
Most recently, Mr. Conway prosecuted a priority claim on behalf of an international EPC contractor, is prosecuting a multi-million claim for a trade contractor on a concert pavilion and is defending a mezzanine lender from a contractor's mechanics lien claim on a condominium project. Mr. Conway has represented two different telecommunications contractors in each case recovering millions of dollars under complex mechanics liens against bankrupt customers.
Mr. Conway is recognized by his peers as one of the top construction lawyers in Illinois. Mr. Conway is a co-author of the chapter on general contractors’ lien rights in the leading publication on Illinois mechanics liens. Mr. Conway also wrote the chapter Mechanics Liens & Surety Bonds in Illinois Construction Law (Aspen, 2003). Mr. Conway is a frequent speaker at construction industry seminars on new developments in construction law; design/build and construction management contracts and disputes; delay claims; the AIA family of construction documents; and mechanics lien and payment bond claims.
Reported Cases
Builders Association of Greater Chicago v. City of Chicago, 298 F.Supp.2d 725 (N.D.Ill. 2003);
Builders Association of Greater Chicago v. County of Cook, 256 F.3d 642 (7th Cir. 2001), affirming, 123 F.Supp.2d 1087 (N.D.Ill. 2000);
Mellon Stuart Construction, Inc. v. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, 1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5376 (N.D.Ill. 1995);
Chase Commercial Corp. v. Brandt, 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16441 (N.D.Ill. 1999);
Builders Association of Greater Chicago v. County of Cook, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 144 (N.D.Ill. 2000); 1998 U.S. Dist LEXIS 2991 (N.D.Ill. 1998); 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13142 (N.D.Ill. 1996);
Dunne v. County of Cook, 483 N.E.2d 13 (1984);
Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank v. Silha, 460 N.E.2d 372 (1984);
Builders Association of Greater Chicago v. City of Chicago, 170 F.R.D. 435 (N.D.Ill. 1996);
Prisco Serena Sturm Architects, Ltd. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 1995 U.S. Dist LEXIS 9904 (N.D.Ill. 1995); 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7278 (N.D.Ill. 1996); U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4350, 3021, 2216 (N.D.Ill. 1996).