Tyson Arbuthnot
Michelle L. Baker
Thomas D. Blanford
Ann M. Blessing
Robert J. Breakstone
Thomas H. Carlson
Robert C. Goodman
David Innis
Allan J. Joseph
Suhani Kamdar
J. Robert Maxwell
Joseph C. McGowan
Michele L. McKee
Suzanne M. Mellard
Alexis Morris
Neil H. O'Donnell
Robert M. Osier
Zachary M. Radford
Joseph W. Rogers
D. Kevin Shipp
Aaron P. Silberman
William B. Turner
Renée Wasserman
Margot Wenger
Paul M. Zieff


Michele L. McKee
Associate

Areas of Practice

Ms. McKee is a member of the firm's Construction Law, Government Contracts and Retail Trade Practice Groups.

Professional Qualifications

Ms. McKee has represented owners and general contractors in a variety of disputes involving sureties, claims for delay, disruption and extra work, and construction defects. Representative cases include: prosecuting extra work and delay claims of a general contractor; prosecuting claims against a surety for failure to perform; defending allegations of false claims by public entities; defending against allegations of construction defects arising from the construction of large condominium complex; defending a general contractor from claims arising from the contractor's termination. Ms. McKee also supports our Retail Trade and Complex Commercial Litigation Groups on a variety of matters, including the defense of Proposition 65 enforcement actions, partnership dissolution and commercial leasing disputes.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Ms. McKee worked as a civil/structural engineer in design and construction for a national design/build construction firm. She was also a project manager for a commercial steel fabricator/erector and has performed constructability reviews and estimating for contractors.

Ms. McKee is currently the Chair of the Construction Law Group for the Barristers Club of the San Francisco Bar Association, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Bar Association, and the California Bar Association. Since her move to San Francisco from Cleveland in 2002, Ms McKee has been active in the community, volunteering and serving on event committees for a variety of non-profit organizations.

Education

J.D., Cleveland Marshall Law School, 2002

B.S.C.E., University of Akron, Ohio, 1996
Civil Engineering
Summa Cum Laude

Bar Admissions
Ohio - 2002
California - 2003




Practices
Construction Law
Government Contracts
Retail Industry Trade Regulation


Recent Publications
Important Considerations When Using "Virtual Building Models" on Construction Projects (PDF)
California Constructor, Volume 36, No. 3, March 2006
by Michele L. McKee

GSA's Building Information Modeling Program Raises Cutting-Edge Construction, Contracting, and Procurement Issues(PDF)
The Procurement Lawyer, Volume 41, No. 4, Summer 2006 by Aaron P. Silberman and Michele L. McKee


Contact
Robert Dollar Building, 10th Floor
311 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415.365.5378
Fax: 415.956.6457
mmckee@rjo.com