A construction lawyer handles disputes and legislation after problems arise. A contracts expert prevents them by drafting better deals, capturing variations and extensions of time to save money and reduce risk upfront.
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Here's the difference between a construction lawyer and a construction contracts expert. To keep it pretty simple, if you're in any sort of legal trouble in the construction field, a construction lawyer will be able to help. They know the legislation, they know how to manage that whole world. But really, these are things that are kind of outside of the contract when you're in trouble already. This is when these guys come into play. However, a construction contracts expert is someone who understands the contract and looks at it from a perspective of how can we save you money, how can we set you up to make more money on variations and EOTs, and how can we reduce your risk? They're two very different things. One is mainly stopping things happening, which is the contracts expert, and the other is when things go bad, then they can help you out. Choose wisely.