Current Position
Bob Rubin, Construction Disputes Avoidance and Resolution

Work History
Special Counsel, McCarter & English, LLP, 2007-16; Of Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, 2006-07;
Partner, Postner & Rubin, 1980-05;
Partner/Associate, Max E. Greenberg, Trayman, Cantor, Reiss & Blasky, 1964-80

Experience
Over five decades exclusively in construction law, both transactional and litigation, counsel and advice, analyses of troubled projects, feasibility studies of proposed projects, development of programs for multi-project procurements, including disputes avoidance and alternative disputes resolution

Principally involved in the resolution of complex construction disputes ranging in value from $50,000 to $150 million through traditional litigation, arbitration, mediation and disputes review boards

Represented public and private owners, sureties, developers, construction managers, engineers and architects, insurers, prime contractors, subcontractors, and equipment and material suppliers. Projects include heavy and highway, commercial and industrial, residential, public works and marine construction including airports, highways, sewers/waterworks, tunnels, bridges, dams, power and chemical plants, high-rise office and residential buildings, zoo and aquarium, hospitals, schools, shopping centers, slurry walls, soils/geotechnical, structural steel erection, racetracks and breakwater. Disputes involve bid protests, collapses and failures, design and construction defects, default and termination, delay and disruption, changes and scope-of-work and differing site conditions.

Professional Licenses
Admitted to the Bar: New York, 1964; U.S. Supreme Court, 1970. Professional Engineer, New York, 1971

Professional Associations
American Bar Association; American Society of Civil Engineers (Fellow); American College of Construction Lawyers (Past President); College of Commercial Arbitrators (Fellow); The Moles; Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (Past President); ACE Mentor Program (Director); National Academy of Construction; International Mediation Institute (IMI) Certified Mediator

Education
Cornell University (BCE-1961); Columbia University (JD-1964)

Teaching
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, faculties of both Law and Civil
Engineering, teaching interdisciplinary course on Construction Industry Law

Publications
Co-author, New York Construction Law Manual, 2014 Ed., Thomson/West;
Construction Claims: Prevention & Resolution, 3rd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1999;
New York Chapter of the State-by-State Guide to Architect, Engineer and Contractor Licensing, Aspen Law and Business, 1999 (Supp. 2014); Chapters on “The Mediator” and “Dispute Review Boards and Other Forms of Construction ADR,” Construction ADR, ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, 2014

Speaker, author and co-author of numerous professional journal articles and book
chapters related to construction law, surety law, professional liability, government
contracts and alternative dispute resolution

Awards and Honors
Recipient of the 2006 Chambers Award of Excellence in Construction Law; Recipient of the 2007 Cornerstone Award of the ABA Forum on the Construction
Industry; Recipient of the 2010 Al Mathews Award for Dispute Board Excellence of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation