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Utilizing his multi-faceted perspective as contractor and lawyer, Brian G. Lustbader is a practical transactional negotiator and draftsman specializing in construction contract drafting and negotiation; alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration; and litigation. He has successfully pursued mediation of numerous construction disputes that had been through litigation. Diverse litigations and arbitrations have been similarly successful, one of which led to creation of a new law in New York.

Brian is the author of articles published in the New York Law Journal and other publications, and is a frequent seminar leader and lecturer on construction contract drafting, bid protests and claims. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers Association, and is admitted to the New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Brian holds a bachelor of science in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of technology and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.