Alvin M. Cohen
Colorado
Woods Aitken LLP
7900 East Union Avenue - Suite 700
Denver, Colorado
80237-2741
Tel: (303) 606-6712
Email:
acohen@woodsaitken.com
Web:
https://www.woodsaitken.com/
Alvin Cohen is a trial lawyer, representing businesses involved in the construction and real estate industries. Typical clients include prime contractors and subcontractors, material suppliers, homebuilders, land developers, and commercial real estate developers.
Al’s practice includes both private sector projects and government contracts. His construction cases span the full range of construction disputes, and he has litigated, for example, complex delay and disruption claims and their attendant critical path scheduling analysis, acceleration claims, disputed changes, construction defects, and mechanic’s liens. These cases involved industrial, commercial, and residential projects.
His real estate litigation practice is also broad and has included a range of disputes, such as lender disputes, buyer-seller disputes, adverse possession claims, partition claims, disputes among owners of the developer entity, etc. Al began his career as a trial lawyer for the Tennessee Valley Authority, where he handled numerous construction disputes, many of which went to trial in federal court or before the Board of Contract Appeals.
In addition to his trial practice, Al serves as advisory counsel to his construction clients. This includes pre-dispute counseling and drafting and negotiating contracts.
Increasingly, Al has been putting his 39 years of experience to use as a mediator of construction disputes. In addition, he has been on the American Arbitration Association panel of arbitrators for 25 years and has served as both sole arbitrator and as a member of three-person arbitration panels.
Prior to joining Woods Aitken, he was a name partner of a boutique construction and real estate law firm in Denver, Colorado.
Woods Aitken’s national construction law practice group has counseled clients in the construction industry throughout the United States since the Firm’s founding in 1921. This tradition and dedication to the construction industry provides the experience and knowledge from which creative, value-driven, and ethical solutions to the challenges facing our construction clients can be achieved. Our service-oriented philosophy fuels our commitment to long-term client relationships and enables us to provide effective solutions consistent with the goals and business propositions of our clients.
Woods Aitken counsels companies from all facets of the construction industry. Our clients include general contractors, trade contractors, specialty subcontractors, project owners, architects, engineers, suppliers, and sureties working on a variety of types of construction projects. We have experience in all legal aspects of the construction process from bid to project closeout.
When disputes arise, Woods Aitken strives to work with our clients to identify the key issues and develop efficient and cost-effective approaches to early resolution. We have obtained favorable settlements for our clients through mediations, dispute review boards and other early resolution processes. However, if resolution cannot be achieved short of trial, our team has extensive experience in construction litigation having achieved success in arbitrations, state and federal courts, and other evidentiary proceedings.
Since 1921, Woods Aitken has focused its practice of law on achieving long-term client success on local, regional, and national levels. Our commitment to client service fueled the expansion from our original Lincoln, Nebraska office to offices in Denver, Colorado; Omaha, Nebraska; and Washington, D.C. We are at our best when we focus on leveraging our firm’s broad expertise to assist individuals and businesses reach their goals.
Client service is the hallmark of everything we do. Integrity, hard work, an understanding of the law, and an even deeper understanding of our clients’ concerns are the foundation upon which we serve. To excel, we believe our commitment to service must be delivered by attorneys who demonstrate the highest levels of academic achievement, strive to be world-class in their chosen area of practice, and understand their success as legal professionals is first and foremost determined by their ability to provide superior legal solutions to their clients.
“Alvin Cohen has notable litigation and arbitration experience. Contractors and subcontractors number among his clients. Sources deem him to be “a very good construction lawyer.”