Partner

Stuart A. Law, Jr., a partner in the firm’s Princeton office, focuses his practice on drafting construction contracts, construction litigation and construction consultation. Stuart is co-chair of Drinker Biddle's Construction, Real Estate & Land Use Litigation group. He has represented owners, developers, contractors, engineers and architects in all phases of the construction process, on a broad range of construction projects, including: a professional baseball/football stadium in Scranton, PA; waterfront development at Philadelphia’s Penn’s Landing; a nine-building state-of-the-art pharmaceutical research and development complex for one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies; a chemical process plant in North Carolina; a major overhaul and renovation of several oceanliners; top-secret military equipment for the United States government; construction of an underground fiber optic line from Washington, D.C. to New York; a casino project in Atlantic City; a pipeline and refineries in Central Asia; a wastewater treatment plant in Singapore; and hotels, office buildings, hospitals, university projects, utility-related projects and residential developments across the United States. In one of his more high-profile cases, Stuart tried and won a matter involving the technical design and construction of Indy cars. Stuart also drafts bid documentation, and assists in the resolution of disputes that arise during the construction process.

Stuart has been active in the construction industry division of the American Bar Association (ABA), and has served as a member of the Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Steering Committee of the ABA’s Forum on the Construction Industry (the “Forum”), where he was a member of the Forum’s Publications Committee.  In addition, Stuart was selected to serve as the newsletter editor of The Construction Lawyer, the Forum’s quarterly construction law journal.  Among other activities, Stuart served on an industry-wide task force that studied the effectiveness of American Arbitration Association arbitrations of complex construction disputes.  He has served on other committees that studied and promoted the use of other forms of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve construction disputes, such as mini-trials, mediations and summary jury trials.  Stuart has also been involved with a committee that studied proposed changes to the Uniform Arbitration Act and the Federal Arbitration Act.

As a member of the American Arbitration Association’s National Panel of Arbitrators, Stuart has served as an arbitrator of construction disputes, and has assisted in resolution of construction disputes through mediation sessions.

Stuart also handles a broad range of general commercial litigation.  In addition to contract litigation, products liability litigation and environmental insurance coverage litigation, he has represented many of the firm’s financial institution clients on issues relating to merger and acquisition litigation, real estate workout litigation, shareholder derivative class action litigation and lender liability actions, as well as claims brought under federal banking regulations and statutes.

Stuart received his bachelor's degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.  Before joining Drinker Biddle, he served for two years as law clerk to the Hon. John B. Hannum of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.