Owner-side counsel for major real estate insurance and construction disputes.
Kelly McCann leads Burnside's owner-side work on major property insurance, construction, delay, and revenue-loss disputes affecting real estate assets and projects. Owners, developers, fiduciaries, and referral partners usually call when cost, timing, and asset economics all need to be understood together. For qualifying serious matters, contingency may be available where the claim and economics support it.
Start with a short, non-confidential summary. If the dispute is large enough to justify focused counsel, you will get a direct initial read and a clear next step.
Start with a short, non-confidential summary. If the dispute is large enough to justify focused counsel, you will get a direct initial read and a clear next step.
Owners, developers, and fiduciaries usually call when construction cost, insurance strategy, timing, and property economics all need to be read together.
Why owners, developers, and fiduciaries hire Kelly McCann.
Kelly McCann combines finance training, construction cost-estimating work, legal training, and graduate real-estate study. He has recovered millions of dollars for property owners through trial, arbitration, and settlement.
He is usually called when repair cost, insurance framing, delay, revenue pressure, and asset economics are all shaping the same owner-side dispute.
Recovered millions for property owners.
Kelly McCann has recovered millions of dollars for property owners through trial, arbitration, and settlement.
Finance, law, construction pricing, and real-estate study
Kelly McCann's background combines a finance degree, construction cost-estimating work, a J.D. with a CALI Award, and an M.S. in Real Estate.
Quoted and featured in publications and interviews
Press includes MoneyGeek, The Mortgage Reports, Construction Dive, and “Avoiding Legal Pitfalls.”
Academic signals that sharpen the founder profile
Kelly McCann received a CALI Award for Academic Excellence and later ranked first in his class in the M.S. in Real Estate program at Colorado Boulder.
Quoted in publications covering construction, insurance, housing, and real-estate issues.
Why owners, developers, and fiduciaries use focused special counsel here.
Owners, developers, and fiduciaries usually do not call because they want another layer of general representation. They call because the dispute needs focused counsel who can read the legal file and the business consequences together.
Focused special counsel helps define the claim, its economics, and the next commercial step.
Broader counsel can continue managing the larger dispute, transaction, restructuring, or ownership picture.
One role centered on the claim
The work is built around insurance, construction, delay, rent loss, and the economics of the asset rather than around broad general representation.
Useful when the business pressure is already moving
Owners and fiduciaries often call when repair cost, timing, funding, and revenue exposure are all starting to shape the same decision.
Built to work with the existing team
Broader litigation, restructuring, transaction, development, or local-counsel roles can stay where they are while the dispute itself gets focused attention.
Contingency-fee structure changes the option set
For the right matter, the fee structure can keep a serious claim from becoming another budget problem.
Why this practice model includes contingency for serious qualifying matters.
The fee structure is part of the practice model, not an afterthought. Burnside is built for serious disputes where focused special counsel can make economic sense without broad, open-ended hourly staffing.
For qualifying serious matters, Burnside Law Firm can work on contingency where the claim and the economics support it.
Built for serious qualifying matters
The model is meant for disputes where claim value, timing, recoverability, and asset pressure all justify focused special counsel.
Reduces friction when the dispute is already expensive
For the right matter, the fee structure can keep reserve strain, repair pressure, or capital demands from becoming the next reason not to act.
Useful for owners and fiduciaries under pressure
Subinstitutional owners, special-situations claimholders, and similar parties often need specialist help without broad hourly staffing.
Aligned economics, not open-ended sprawl
The structure is meant to fit the seriousness of the dispute without creating a broader, open-ended engagement.
Matters Burnside handles
Burnside is usually called when repair cost, claim value, timing pressure, or revenue exposure are large enough to matter to the asset or the project.
Major property insurance disputes
Claims where scope, reconstruction timing, code issues, delay, soft costs, or business consequences materially affect recovery.
Construction defect and remediation disputes
Envelope, water intrusion, roofing, waterproofing, systems, and related disputes where repair strategy and business exposure are both in play.
Construction disputes and delay problems
Project or remediation disputes where responsibility, sequencing, completion pressure, or commercial leverage materially affect the owner.
Loss-of-rents and business interruption disputes
Revenue-loss matters where rent roll, downtime, restoration timing, and lease economics shape the claim.
Start with a concise summary of the dispute.
If the dispute is large enough to affect repairs, reserves, timing, or revenue, start with a concise summary of the asset, the problem, and what is at stake.