About the Author
Gary Brown is a partner in the Fort Lauderdale office of Arnstein & Lehr LLP and is a member of the firm's Construction Practice Group. He is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Construction Law. He practices in general commercial and business litigation, handling both complex and routine matters for clients with special expertise in construction-related matters. Gary has practiced law since 1995 in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout Florida, where he has gained extensive experience in both trial and arbitration proceedings. Gary's construction litigation experience is primarily on the general contractor and subcontractor side and includes representing owners with defect, lien, non-payment or other claims involving contractors and lower-tiered subcontractors. His owner-side representation also includes assisting municipalities and local governments in all aspects of public work projects, from writing IFBs, RFPs, RFQs, construction and design contracts, to carefully navigating through often difficult ongoing project disputes that jeopardize the proper and timely completion of the work to successful project close-out. Gary's construction litigation experience has involved the successful representation of large institutional owners, municipalities, general contractors and major subcontractors in the prosecution and defense of multi-million dollar wrongful termination, construction defect, and insurance coverage claims, as well as bid protests on multi-million dollar public works projects. His commercial litigation experience has involved the successful representation of privately held companies in shareholder derivative suits over corporate restructuring and sale of company shares; and a local title company in the defense of multi-million dollar claims by a national institutional lender for an alleged loan-kiting scheme.
