Member Profile: Richard F. Greenleaf

	Richard F. Greenleaf Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti LLP 1712 Pearl Street Boulder, CO 80302 Tel: (303) 402-1600 Fax: (303) 402-1601 Website: www.bhgrlaw.com Richard F. Greenleaf regularly travels out of state to Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico	View Printable Resume GoogleMaps for this Location View Available Dates Calendar

ADR Services Include:

Arbitration

Commercial/Business Construction Contract Disputes

Energy Sector (Oil, Gas) Engineering Industrial

International Mining Professional Liability

BIOGRAPHICAL:

Mr. Greenleaf, one of the four founding partners, is a construction lawyer, with extensive experience representing owners, general contractors, and other parties in the construction business. He works in the areas of building construction, design, petrochemical, power and other related industries. He litigates and arbitrates numerous matters and has been involved on the transactional side of the construction practice, negotiating contracts and helping to position his clients strategically to prevent and to resolve problems on construction projects. Areas with which he has considerable experience include contract drafting and negotiation, project delivery systems, bonds, insurance, and surety law and construction disputes involving breach of contract and subcontract, extra work, wrongful termination, schedule impacts (delay, disruption, acceleration), expansive soils, defective construction, and defective design. He speaks and authors on construction and arbitration issues.

Mr. Greenleaf has been appointed by the National Dispute Resolution Committee of the American Arbitration Association to serve as one of approximately 100 construction arbitrators in the United States on the Committee's "Master Roster" of distinguished construction arbitrators. He has been an American Arbitration Association Construction Panelist since 1989, and has served on more than 100 arbitration panels involving construction disputes throughout the United States. He also serves on the AAA National Panel of Mediators.

EDUCATION:

• J.D., South Texas College of Law, 1982
• B.A., University of South Florida, 1976

Memberships & Affiliations

• American Arbitration Association, Construction Advisory Committee
• American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry: Contract Documents, Contract Negotiations, Performance and Administration, Dispute Avoidance and Resolution, Insurance Surety and Lien Committees; Section of Public Contract Law, Construction Division; Section of Tort Trial and Insurance; Fidelity and Surety Practice Section; and Advisory Panel
• American Subcontractors Association of Colorado
• Boulder County Bar Association
• Colorado Bar Association, Construction Law Section
• Houston Bar Association, Construction Law Section, Past Chair and Former Member
• State Bar of Texas, Construction Law Section, Past Council Member; Construction Law Newsletter, Past Editor
• International Bar Association, Arbitration Committee, Professional Ethics Committee, and Dispute Resolution Section of the Legal Practices 

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