Jill Jaffe Email & Phone Number

Jill Jaffe is co-chair of Nossaman’s Real Estate Group. As a litigator, Jill specializes in disputes involving real estate, public procurements and infrastructure projects. She is experienced in all phases of litigation in both federal and state courts, including pre-litigation government investigations, pleadings, e-Discovery, dispositive motions, mediation and trial. Jill has successfully obtained verdicts for her clients as a lead trial attorney, including for the Texas Department of Transportation.Jill has particular experience counseling clients on myriad aspects of public contracting and procurement disputes, including defending bid protest challenges and litigating construction claims. Her construction claims experience includes representing clients before dispute review panels and boards in multiple states and in high-stakes disputes on numerous issues that arise in the context of a complex infrastructure project, including utility adjustments and relocations, environmental permitting, environmental re-evaluation, and delay and disruption claims.Jill also provides general counsel services to public transportation agencies on a wide variety of matters, including construction contracts, alternative procurement processes, the Brown Act and Public Records Act. This expertise includes: organizational conflicts under federal law; Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) requirements, including good faith efforts regulations; bid protest administrative procedures; and statutes and regulations governing alternative procurement processes, including Construction Management/General Contractor, sole source, and negotiated procurements.Jill is a contributing author for Construction & Claims, Nossaman's periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving construction news, claims, bid protests, contract administration and payment-related disputes.

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