Construction and Contractor Disputes
Construction disputes are unforgiving. The money is significant, the relationships are layered—owner, general contractor, subcontractor, supplier, surety—and the law imposes strict deadlines that can wipe out a valid claim if they are missed. Resurgens Legal Counsel represents owners, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers across Georgia in disputes over payment, performance, and defective work, whether the goal is to collect what you are owed or to defend against a claim that the work or the lien is bad.
Whatever side you are on, the early decisions matter most. A lien filed a day late is worthless; a lien defended carelessly can cloud a property’s title for a year. We move quickly and deliberately, with the deadlines mapped before anything is filed.
What We Handle
We represent clients across the construction chain in matters including:
- Nonpayment and collection disputes—getting paid for work performed and materials supplied
- Breach of construction contracts, including disputes over scope, change orders, and substitutions
- Construction defect claims—defending and pursuing them
- Delay, disruption, and acceleration disputes
- Disputes among owners, general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers over responsibility and payment
Because these matters almost always start with an agreement, they overlap heavily with our contract disputes practice, and where the dispute touches the land itself, with our real estate disputes practice.
How We Approach the Work
We start by establishing two things: what you are realistically owed (or exposed to), and what deadlines control. From there, the strategy depends on your position. For a claimant, that may mean perfecting a lien while simultaneously pursuing the underlying breach-of-contract claim, so you are not betting everything on a single remedy. For an owner or contractor on the defensive, it may mean bonding off a lien to clear title, attacking the lien’s validity, and pressing claims for defective or incomplete work.
Construction cases also reward technical command of the record—the contract documents, the change orders, the daily logs, the pay applications. We build that record into a coherent narrative rather than a pile of exhibits, because that is what moves a case at mediation and what wins it at trial.
Who We Represent
We represent owners, general contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers—both pursuing payment and defending against claims. If you have performed and not been paid, we pursue every available remedy on the clock the law allows. If you are facing a lien, a defect claim, or a demand you believe is overstated, we defend it and, where the facts support it, turn the dispute around with claims of your own.