Gardere Boosts Construction Practice With Addition of Home Builder Industry Veteran

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is deepening its architecture convenance with the accession of acclaimed home architect industry adept Steve Lane as a Senior Attorney.

Mr. Lane joins the close afterwards added than 25 years alive as an centralized advocate for civic and bounded home builders.

“We are acutely admiring to acceptable Steve to our firm,” says Gardere Managing Partner Steve Good. “He is awful admired in the acreage of residential architecture law, and his different acquaintance will be a amazing account for our audience and a abundant asset for our firm.”

Mr. Lane’s convenance focuses on all aspects of the home architecture industry, including authoritative acquiescence matters, cardinal home architecture issues, advertising, acquirement agreements and arbitration.

He is a founding affiliate of the General Counsel Group of the High Production Home Builders Council and a affiliate of the Governmental Affairs Sub-Council. In this role, he helped advance the Supplementary Procedures for Residential Construction, which were the aboriginal rules adopted by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) to abode the specific needs of the home architecture industry. He aswell formed with AAA to advance the group’s Home Construction Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures, which were adopted in 2007.

Mr. Lane served on the Task Force that created the Texas Residential Construction Commission, in accession to confined on the National Association of Home Builders’ Legal Action Committee back 2005. His able ceremoniousness cover accepting called In-House Counsel of the Year by the Texas Association of Builders.

Mr. Lane becoming his law amount from the University of Memphis afterwards earning his undergraduate amount from the University of Tennessee at Martin.

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, an AmLaw 200 firm, was founded in 1909 and is one of the Southwest’s better full-service law firms. With offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and Mexico City, Gardere provides acknowledged casework to clandestine and accessible companies and individuals in areas of energy, litigation, corporate, tax, environmental, activity and employment, bookish acreage and banking services.