Biography
Angelo is a seasoned advocate with extensive experience litigating and arbitrating complex construction disputes before courts and tribunals across the country. Throughout his career, Angelo has represented the interests of owners, developers, prime contractors, and specialty subcontractors, and has pursued through verdict, final contested hearing, or dispositive motions scores of construction-specific disputes including: change order and payment disputes, schedule delay and disruption claims, subcontractor defaults, contract terminations, mechanic’s lien actions, and contested OSHA citations.
Angelo particularly thrives in the use of technology when representing clients. Angelo’s background in large/complex disputes helped him gain a strong working knowledge of data mining and data management central to document-intense construction disputes.
Angelo is an active member of the construction bar and Angelo’s accomplishments have been recognized making him a Super Lawyers® Rising Star.
Representative Experience
- Successfully defended a subcontractor against general contractor claims of defective work resulting in full payment to client for work performed
- Arbitrated large, multi-million dollar stadium dispute on behalf of a subcontractor seeking change order requests and defending against delay claims
- Successfully mediated and negotiated a global resolution on behalf of an owner-developer a multi-million dollar, multi-party change order and payment dispute regarding the construction of a multi-family unit affordable housing complex
- Successfully defended an off-site subcontractor and material supplier against OSHA Citations arising from an on-site fatality resulting in dismissal of Citations
- Mediated multi-million dollar dispute on behalf of a subcontractor facing delay damages due to the alleged actions of client’s subcontractor
- Represented a subcontractor seeking damages arising out of a sub-subcontractor’s default and successfully obtained a federal judgment declaring the legal existence and enforceability of the contract being disputed by the sub-subcontractor
- Represented subcontractors throughout the United States regarding disputes with general contractors and owners over payment, change order, and delay claims
Professional Involvement
- American Bar Association
- Forum on Construction Law, Young Lawyers Division, Steering Committee
- Forum on Construction Law, 2022 Diversity Fellow
- Kentucky Bar Association
- Louisville Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court of Kentucky
- Supreme Court of Illinois
- Supreme Court of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Kentucky
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Awards
Super Lawyers® Rising Star (2022-2023)
