Welcome to Woodworth Snow
Experienced Business, Construction, Real Estate, and Renewable Energy Attorneys
The attorneys at Woodworth Snow have real-world experience and the practical knowledge to assist clients achieve their business and legal objectives with extraordinarily efficient and individual client-focused, business-oriented legal advice at affordable rates. We understand the need for attorneys with big firm experience, but without the big firm cost.
Practice Areas
Business
In addition, our litigation team represents clients in business disputes in state and federal
trial and appellate courts, administrative forums, regulatory proceedings, mediation and
arbitration. This includes disputes between business entities, owners, and individuals and
businesses. The firm’s attorneys have experience handling business torts, contract
disputes, director and officer liability, debt collection matters, fiduciary duty disputes, fraud
and misrepresentation claims, insurance disputes, landlord-tenant matters, lease disputes,
member / partner / shareholder disputes, non-competition matters, non-solicitation matters,
and tortious interference claims. Whether an individual owner, large business, or small
business, our firm evaluates each dispute to help further the client’s interest. This litigation
experience allows our attorneys to help clients with risk management and litigation
avoidance strategies.
Real Estate
- Landowner disputes
- Negotiation and documentation of, and disputes regarding, purchase contracts for residential, commercial, and industrial properties
- Review and analysis of title and survey
- Preparation, review, and negotiation of, along with disputes regarding, commercial, industrial and residential leases
- Development of and legal disputes regarding residential subdivisions, multi-family projects, commercial projects, mixed-use projects and condominium projects
- Preparation, review, and negotiation of construction contracts and subcontracts
- Disputes regarding construction contracts and subcontracts
- Preparation, review, and negotiation of construction loan and permanent loan documents
- Renewable energy project development
- Representation of architects, engineers, home builders, remodelers, commercial contractors, subcontractors, property managers, and owners associations as outside general counsel
Renewable Energy
Construction Law
- Owners and developers
- Architects and engineers
- Contractors and subcontractors
- Suppliers
- Sureties
In addition, our attorneys represent clients in all phases of construction projects, including:
- The front end of a project: contract negotiation and drafting, insurance, bonds, bidding and award, etc.
- Project counseling and advice, including management of risks and claims during the project
- Payment issues: mechanic’s liens, bond claims, etc.
- Dispute resolution: mediation, arbitration, litigation
The team’s breadth of work spans both:
- Large and small projects
- Private and public construction projects
- New construction and renovation projects
Members of our practice group have also authored or edited leading publications on construction
law and are frequent speakers at industry meetings:
- State-By-State Guide to Construction Contracts and Claims (Second Edition and Supplements), 2009-2022 (Kansas law)
- Prompt Payment Acts: Missouri and federal, Missouri Bar CLE Deskbook, 2009
- ConsensusDOCS 240: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You, 30 The Construction Lawyer 21, 2010
- 2007 AIA Contract Documents, Lorman Education Services, 2008
- Design Professional and Construction Manager Law, ABA Construction Forum, 2007
- Fundamentals in Construction Law, American Bar Association, 2006
- OSHA Issues, Kansas City Missouri Home Builders Association, 2005
- The Betterment or Added First Benefit Defense, ABA Construction Forum Meeting, 2005
- Prompt Payment Acts: Federal and Missouri, Missouri Construction Law, The Missouri Bar, 2004
- Speaker: Mold: What’s the Big Deal? 2003
- Speaker: Changes in Contracts and Differing Site Claims, National Business Institute, Inc., 2002
- Scope of Typical Clauses, Construction Change Order Claims, Wiley Law Publications, 1994