Jason A. Copley

Jason acts as counsel to a wide range of construction clients, including general contractors, subcontractors, owners, and suppliers on both public and private projects. He has litigation experience consulting with clients during the contract phase, construction process as well as litigation. He works to aggressively enforce his clients’ rights while simultaneously seeking fair and reasonable business solutions.

Jason worked in the construction industry as a project manager for six years before going to law school. He utilizes his engineering degree and his background working for a commercial subcontractor to help his clients with their projects. In his practice, he handles construction cases involving a wide variety of public works, multi-prime, commercial, industrial, institutional, residential, and educational construction issues. Clients rely upon Jason for counsel during all aspects and stages of construction projects. He regularly drafts and negotiates construction contracts and prepares, presents, and defends disputed claims. Jason also works on matters involving mechanics’ liens, bond claims, claims for delay, acceleration, loss of efficiency, unpaid change orders, bid protests and bid withdrawals. Throughout his career, he has developed significant experience representing general contractors, specialty subcontractors including curtain wall and glass and steel fabricators.  Jason sits on the Board of Directors of the Architectural Glass & Metal Association and serves as Assistant General Counsel to the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).

Jason has personally handled hundreds of cases over his career, which includes extensive mediation, arbitration and litigation experience. He handles cases on both the state and federal levels in a multitude of jurisdictions, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and has worked in Delaware, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio and Virginia. He has also argued cases at the appellate levels in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. While also in court regularly, Jason believes strongly in all ADR options when it comes to resolving construction disputes and favors early mediation which often results in avoiding unnecessary expense and delay.

From 2010 through 2016, Jason served as the firm’s Managing Partner. During his tenure, Jason helped the firm grow from 30 attorneys to over 65, and helped establish the firm’s partnership with Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia. He is a regular speaker at trade organizations and construction companies on all aspects of construction law and litigation.