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New Jersey
70 Grand Avenue
River Edge, NJ 07661
tel. +1 201.343.3434
fax +1 201.343.6306
bmeller@pecklaw.com
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Bruce
D.
Meller
is a
partner
at
Peckar
&
Abramson
with
more
than
30
years
of
experience
in
construction
law.
He
has
represented
contractors
on
various
types
of
projects
including
high
rise
buildings,
shopping
malls,
waste
treatment
plants,
hospitals,
garages,
institutional
buildings,
and
laboratories
as
well
as
heavy
and
highway
projects.
He
is
responsible
for
many
of
the
firm's
most
significant
cases,
as
well
as
the
negotiation
of
complex
contractual
relationships
and
the
drafting
of
standard
forms
of
Agreement,
which
are
used
on a
national
basis.
Mr.
Meller
has
successfully
tried
numerous,
lengthy
jury
trials,
bench
trials
and
arbitrations.
Most
notably,
Mr.
Meller
was
lead
counsel
in
an
arbitration
involving
claims
in
excess
of
$130
million
arising
out
of
building
and
civil
construction
work
for
a
train
system
in
the
Commonwealth
of
Puerto
Rico.
He
has
been
lead
counsel
in
an
arbitration
on
behalf
of a
construction
manager
involving
claims
in
excess
of
$60
million.
Some
other
substantial
matters
include
the
successful
defense
of
an
owner
against
a $5
million
termination
claim
by a
general
contractor
and
the
defense
of a
prime
contractor
from
a
termination
claim
by a
Fortune
500
company
that
resulted
in a
jury
verdict
dismissing
the
owner’s
claim
and
awarding
the
prime
contractor
more
than
$1
million
in
damages.
In
another
proceeding,
he
recovered
more
than
$4.5
million
on
behalf
of a
construction
manager
on a
shopping
mall
project,
while
simultaneously
causing
the
dismissal
of
the
owner’s
$5
million
claim
for
alleged
construction
defects.
Mr.
Meller's
cases
have
resulted
in
more
than
a
dozen
published
decisions.
In
light
of
his
accomplishments,
Mr.
Meller
was
selected
to
be
in
Who’sWho
of
International
Construction
Lawyers,
Best
Lawyers
in
America
(2006
-
2008),
New
York
and
New
Jersey
Super
Lawyers
(2006
and
2007)
for
Construction
Law
and
a
Fellow
of
the
Litigation
Counsel
of
America.
Mr. Meller
also
lectures
to
bar
associations
and
construction
industry
groups
on
the
intricacies
of
construction
law
and
has
authored
articles
relating
to
construction
issues.
Mr.
Meller
is a
graduate
of
the
University
of
Connecticut
and
Brooklyn
Law
School.
Mr.
Meller
is
admitted
to
practice
law
before
the
United
States
Supreme
Court,
the
United
States
Court
of
Appeals
for
the
Third
Circuit,
the
United
States
Court
of
Federal
Claims,
the
United
States
District
Court
for
the
Southern,
Eastern,
and
Northern
Districts
of
New
York,
the
District
of
New
Jersey
as
well
as
the
state
courts
of
New
York
and
New
Jersey.
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