As part of Ms.Piskun’s construction law practice, she assists owners, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in connection with a wide variety of projects, with a special emphasis on EPC contracts and MSAs. She works on industrial projects, maintenance contracts, infrastructure, and school construction. Her involvement has included negotiating agreements, counseling clients to mitigate risk, filing and foreclosing mechanics’ liens, structuring change order and claim requests, reviewing and evaluating delay, disruption, loss of productivity claims and defenses, and helping clients address and resolve disputes before and after the commencement of litigation.

Ms. Piskun’s insurance law practice focuses on policy holders seeking to enforce coverage or recover policy proceeds under all types of insurance policies, including commercial general liability, commercial property, builder’s risk, directors and officers, professional liability, homeowners, automobile, business-interruption, and environmental site liability policies.  Ms. Psikun has litigated coverage claims in federal and state courts, including construction defect claims and claims for bad faith breach of insurance contracts.  Her experience in litigating all types of coverage issues allows her to advise clients shopping for coverage to purchase policies that fit their needs and risk profiles.

As a trial lawyer, Ms. Piskun has handled complex business disputes, defamation, construction, employment, and fraud cases. She won a significant verdict for an infrastructure contractor against a public entity and was awarded attorneys’ fees and costs on behalf of her client.  Ms. Piskun has negotiated settlements in excess of two million dollars for a local school district related to construction defects and design-related issues.  Finally, she obtained a defense jury verdict on behalf of entrepreneurs faced with a “bet-the-company” defamation and trade-secret case.

Ms. Piskun’s business litigation experience is broad but has focused on partnership disputes, contract-based employment disputes, enforcement of trade-secret and confidential information protections, and wide-ups.  Ms. Piskun has extensive experience prosecuting, resolving, and defending complex commercial litigation matters with an emphasis on claims involving product liability, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, defamation, interference with contract, breach of contract, and unfair business practices.