Matthew F. Graham
Attorney

• Recovered $15.5 million in delay damages and extras from the City of Beverly Hills for the general contractor who built the city’s new Civic Center.
• Recovered $1.8 million from one of the largest mechanical contractors in the U.S. who abandoned a winery project in Northern California. The total attorneys’ fees expended for the client in this matter were less than $125,000.
• Successfully negotiated contractor and subcontractor claims in excess of $2.5 million on the the State of California’s Pelican Bay Prison Project.
• Successfully negotiated over $20 million of contractor and subcontractor claims on the State Office Building in San Francisco.
• Successfully negotiated a surety’s payment of more than $2.5 million from the City of Los Angeles to a general contractor client and its surety for delays on several projects taken over by the client after abandonment by the previous contractor.
• Successfully negotiated the resolution of claims in excess of $1 million on AC Transit’s Oakland headquarters building.
• Recovered in arbitration $1.2 million in delay damages for a general contractor from a national hotel chain for delays suffered on a new hotel construction. Working with opposing counsel and an independent arbitrator, was able to format the ground rules for a one week arbitration (for a matter that would have taken at least six weeks to try) in order to reduce the attorneys’ fees and costs to all parties.
• Successfully negotiated more than $4 million in subcontractor claims on the Theo Lacy Jail in Orange County.
• Recovered $950,000 (including attorneys’ fees) for a property owner after a three week jury trial for damage to property caused by earth movement.
• Recovered $875,000 (including attorneys’ fees) from a developer after a two week trial for a local general contractor who had been unfairly backcharged by the developer.
• Successfully negotiated on behalf of the owner and general contractor of a large hotel in San Francisco the settlement of some twenty subcontractor claims for project acceleration in the total amount of $7 million.

St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco

• President

Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Honor Society

Alameda County Bar Association

San Francisco Bar Association

American Bar Association