Discuss a serious real estate insurance or construction matter.
Burnside Property & Project Claims speaks with owners, fiduciaries, and referral partners about major property insurance, construction defect, construction disputes, loss of rents/business interruption, and related asset-impairment matters. The first question is usually whether the claim is large enough, exposed enough, and early enough to justify focused counsel. For qualifying serious matters, contingency may be available.
Start with a short, non-confidential summary. If the matter appears 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 matter appears large enough to justify focused counsel, you will get a direct initial read and a clear next step.
Start with a short summary of the asset, the problem, and the timing pressure.
The first conversation is usually short. Burnside wants to understand what happened, how the asset or project is exposed, and whether the claim is serious enough to justify focused counsel now.
For qualifying serious matters, contingency may be available once the claim, timing, and economics are understood.
Send a concise non-confidential summary
Start with the asset, the dispute, the timing pressure, and the core documents or players already in the file.
Receive a direct initial read
The first exchange should clarify whether the matter is worth pursuing and whether claim value is drifting while the record hardens.
Define the next step
If the matter should move forward, the next step is a controlled step that preserves leverage and keeps the scope clear.
Discuss a Matter
A short, non-confidential summary is usually enough to begin. The first conversation usually focuses on the asset, the dispute, the timing pressure, and whether claim value is large enough and exposed enough to justify special counsel.
Send first
The asset or project, what happened, who is exposed, and what is creating timing pressure.
Useful if available
Policy or contract, estimate, consultant report, active deadline, lender pressure, or court timeline.
Do not send yet
Confidential or privileged material until conflicts are cleared and the engagement is discussed.
For qualifying serious matters, contingency may be available once the claim, timing, and economics are understood. The first step is still a short, non-confidential summary.
For time-sensitive matters, email or call directly with a short, non-confidential summary.
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Contacting the firm does not create an attorney-client relationship. Time-sensitive matters should also be raised by direct email or phone at info@burnsidelawgroup.com or (503) 208-4356.
Matters Burnside is most likely to take.
These are the kinds of matters Burnside is most likely to take and the kinds of matters that usually belong with other counsel.
Construction and insurance disputes with real business consequences
Matters where repair cost, claim framing, delay, or property economics make the dispute more than a routine file.
Property-owner matters where the asset and the claim need to be understood together
These matters usually require the asset problem and the claim problem to be understood together.
Loss scenarios where timing and revenue pressure affect leverage
The issue becomes more serious when downtime, restoration timing, or project delay starts to change the economics.
Matters that justify focused special counsel
These matters usually need sharper claim framing and a narrower role, not broad general representation.
Routine matters without meaningful economic pressure
Commodity disputes or ordinary issues that do not justify a focused construction-and-insurance role.
Ordinary landlord-tenant or collections work
Matters that fall outside the practice focus on construction, insurance, and property-owner disputes.
Requests for broad general representation
The role stays narrow, specific, and tied to the underlying claim problem.