Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram

A staunch believer in mediation, Judd has successfully resolved many complex multi-million dollar disputes through mediation, thereby saving his client the cost and risk of trial.

As a Martindale-Hubbell AV rated attorney, Judd represents clients in a variety of industries, including aerospace, construction, electronics, manufacturing, shipbuilding, and technology. Judd's clients consider him to be "top shelf," and one client claimed, "There is no one I'd rather to go to war with." Multiple appearances in leading listings such as "Super Lawyers" are objective testimony to Judd's standing among his peer group and clients alike. Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Beyond the day-to-day practice, Judd's passion for furthering his knowledge and investment into the practice of law is demonstrated through having published several books and lectured extensively on construction and government contracts topics. Not only has he served on the faculty (construction law) of the Washington College of Law of American University, but he has also authored, District of Columbia Construction Law (HLK Global Communications, 2007), a recent and comprehensive reference book discussing the central issues arising in public and private construction in the District of Columbia.

In addition to authoring many other legal publications, Judd has published four additional books:

• The Klausenberger Rebbe, Rebuilding, Targum/Feldheim, 2007
  (http://www.feldheim.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?item=1-56871-219-7)
• The Klausenberger Rebbe, The War Years, Targum/Feldheim, 2003
  (http://www.feldheim.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?item=978-156871-451-6)
• Stories for Shauli, Targum/Feldheim, 1999
• Heaven Sent Stories of Faith and Effort, Targum/Feldheim, 1977

Outside the practice of law, Judd's personal passion is for skillful and accomplished photography. See for yourself - www.jfotoart.com.

• Judd served as lead counsel for the general contractor on the San Diego Naval Hospital Project, a $100 million dollar hospital, where he successfully defended the general contractor in a three-month jury trial in federal court against multi-million dollar subcontractor claims and then sustained the victory by defending against an appeal in the 9th Circuit. Mai Steel Service, Inc. v. Blake Construction Co., Inc., 981 F.2d 414 (9th Cir. 1992).
• Judd was lead counsel for a Navy contractor wrongfully terminated for default by the government. In this case, which involved multiple trials before the Armed Service Board of Contract Appeals, Judd prosecuted the contractor's multi million dollar affirmative claims while at the same time defended against the Navy's twenty-five million dollar claim against the contractor. After several trial victories, the Navy settled the case by paying the contractor 11 million dollars. Appeals of Blake Construction Co., Inc. Under Contract No. N68248.81-C-3021, Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
• Judd obtained the dismissal of a multi-million dollar RICO complaint and successfully sustained that dismissal at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Lyon v. Campbell, 28 F.3d 1210 (4th Cir. 1994).
• Judd served as construction counsel to the Maryland Stadium Authority in connection with its construction of over 1 billion dollars in fast track projects, including Orioles Park at Camden Yard, Baltimore Convention Center, Ravens Stadium, and Comcast Arena. Judd put in place a claims resolution system, which resulted in the resolution by negotiation of every construction claim made on those multiple projects.
• Judd was lead trial counsel for the State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, in Cacon, Inc. v. Rand Environmental Services, Inc., 2006 WL 2389553 (N.J. Super. A.D. 2006) where he successfully defended New Jersey against $60 million in claims on a Super Fund remediation project. As a result of Judd and his trial team's tenacity and strategy, the case was very favorably resolved on the eve of trial after major summary judgment rulings were obtained on behalf of the State of New Jersey.
• Judd and his trial team made law in the State of Maryland when, in a derivative lawsuit brought by dissident shareholders in two closely held corporations, they obtained a dismissal of the suit and sustained that dismissal in a landmark decision at the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Bender v. Schwartz, 172 Md. App. 648 (2007).
• Judd recently served as lead counsel in a complex multi-phase arbitration, where he and the SLS trial team successfully represented the owner, New Athens Generating Company, LLC, a merchant power company, on a $533 million power plant construction project in upstate New York, against the general contractor, Bechtel Power Corporation, one of the world's largest power plant construction contractors. Bechtel sought more than $94 million in additional compensation for alleged changes in the cutting-edge power generation technology incorporated into the plant, alleged force majeure severe winter weather encountered during construction, and other alleged changes, delays and force majeure events. New Athens, sought approximately $33 million in liquidated damages due to Bechtel completing the construction more than 200 days late. Due to the complexity of the case, the arbitrators divided the hearing into four phases, with each phase focusing on one of the areas of construction in dispute. The arbitration involved extensive testimony as to power plant combustion turbine engineering, construction scheduling, construction craft labor productivity and ergonomics, meteorology/climatology, chemistry, power industry economics, and construction cost accounting. Altogether, the arbitrators heard 53 days of testimony, from 53 witnesses, received more than 1,300 exhibits, with a transcript of nearly 15,000 pages. The arbitrators rendered several detailed written opinions throughout the arbitration. The final result of the arbitration was that New Athens successfully defeated nearly all of Bechtel's claims and the arbitrators awarded New Athens $26,950,000 in liquidated damages which constituted more than 80% of the liquidated damages sought by New Athens.