Kavaller, Miles L

Mr. Stoll provides the expertise and experience that clients need to efficiently and effectively resolve a wide range of legal problems that typically arise in the construction industry. Mr. Stoll brings not only a solid legal education and fifteen years of construction litigation practice, but also a practical background as a contractor and engineer.

Mr. Stoll has successfully handled commercial, residential, and public works contract drafting and interpretation, bid protests and substitution hearings, licensing issues, preliminary notices, mechanics liens and stop notices. Miller Act claims, payment disputes, construction defect and property damage disputes, and extra work, change order, and delay claims, including actions that fall under the federal and state False Claims Acts. Mr. Stoll can assist clients in negotiating terms and conditions of new agreements, including the preparation of state-of-the-art contract documents, prime contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, payment applications, and specialty agreements, as well as close-out documentation, releases, and settlement agreements, and, if necessary, appellate work and collections. Mr. Stoll has represented every player at every phase in the construction litigation arena - public and private owners, prime contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers and vendors, sureties, architects, engineers, and insurance companies.

Mr. Stoll can provide advice and customized forms to streamline project documentation before disputes arise, while enabling clients to process and control information vital to protecting their legal rights. He can also conduct in-house seminars that provide clients' top staff and field supervisors with practical information and procedures for thorough and effective contract administration.

Alternative methods of dispute resolution have gained increasingly wide application and acceptance among attorneys, the courts, and clients to mitigate the time and expense of conventional trials. Mr. Stoll has participated in all these forums, both as an advocate and as the third-party neutral, and advocates these methods to minimize the cost of dispute resolution.

Mr. Stoll is regularly involved in litigation in the State and Federal Courts, primarily in California, in the Counties of Sacramento, Placer, Yolo, El Dorado, Butte, Solano, San Joaquin, and San Francisco.