Loading KSI LawLoading KSI LawRecognized authority in construction law. The counsel other firms send their own clients to.
Construction law is a discipline of deadlines. A lien preserved a day late is no lien at all. A notice of adjudication, a holdback release, a bond claim: each has a clock, and each clock is unforgiving. KSI Law's construction group has spent five decades inside those timelines, acting for owners, general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and bonding companies across every sector of the built environment.
The practice runs the full arc of a project: planning, financing, structuring, procurement and documentation on the way in, and liens, trust claims, delay and deficiency disputes, bond claims and adjudication on the way out. This is a group that has taught the field, written its reports and sat as its arbitrators. It is telling that colleagues at other firms repeatedly entrust their clients to us when a conflict prevents them from acting. Our lawyers know how the other side of the table thinks because they have sat there.
Drafting and negotiating construction contracts across every delivery model, from standard form to bespoke, with documentation that is practical and built for the project rather than the precedent.
Preservation, perfection and enforcement of construction liens, breach of trust claims and holdback disputes, with every statutory deadline managed to the day.
Interim adjudication under prompt payment regimes, where a dispute is decided in weeks and the written record decides it. We prepare for that pace.
Delay, deficiency, payment and termination disputes resolved by negotiation, mediation, arbitration or trial. A depth of experience that often leads to settlement before the courtroom.
Performance and labour and material payment bond claims, pursued and defended for sureties, owners and contractors, with the benefit of decades inside these disputes.
Advice through the life of a project, from tender and award through change orders, substantial performance and final completion, so disputes are managed before they are filed.
We have acted for owners against contractors, contractors against owners, and sureties against both. We know what the other side will argue because we have argued it.
Lien, holdback, adjudication and bond timelines are managed to the day. Rights are preserved early so nothing is lost while a dispute is still being understood.
When other firms are conflicted out, this is the group they send their clients to. The lawyers who taught the field, wrote the reports and judge the awards sit on this team.
Our lawyers sit as arbitrators and mediators. They know which disputes settle, which ones try, and how to tell the difference early.
Five decades and hundreds of mandates have made Stanley one of Canada's recognized authorities on construction law and the creditor questions that decide it: liens, trust claims, bonding, mortgage priority and insolvency. He taught the Law Society's Bar Admission Course for a decade, sat on the editorial board of The Construction Law Reports, and is as often the neutral as the advocate, frequently named arbitrator, mediator and project mediator in complex multi party disputes.
