Jones Walker LLP

Construction

Partner

Chad V. Theriot is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. He focuses on major public and commercial construction and infrastructure projects.

Chad advises domestic and international clients across a broad spectrum of construction, contracting, and procurement activities. He represents owners, commercial and government contractors, major subcontractors, and original equipment manufacturers in construction litigation and construction claims avoidance. Chad serves as co-chair of the firm’s construction practice team.

Chad currently represents US, UK, Austrian, German, South African, and Saudi Arabian companies spanning the globe in the energy, construction, aviation, defense, and shipping sectors. He currently has disputes before the ICC and the LCIA involving international disputes. He also currently represents domestic clients before the AAA and various state and federal courts.

Chad has successfully litigated more than $2.5 billion in disputes. His typical range of projects includes representing owners and contractors in the construction and design of energy projects, airports, military bases, power plants, environmental and closure projects, cogeneration plants, oil refineries, hospitals, high-rises, off-shore platforms, hotels, resorts, and a variety of other commercial and industrial construction projects. He also has extensive experience in the aircraft, locomotive, and shipbuilding industries.

Before joining Jones Walker, Chad practiced in the Atlanta office of an Am Law 100 firm, where he was a partner on the construction and infrastructure team.

Prior to law school, Chad worked as a claims consultant on commercial and government contracts involving project schedule delivery, strategic planning, schedule risks, inefficiency claims, and delay analyses. His work included the preparation and review of claims for delay, disruption, acceleration, and quantifying interruption impacts.

Chad is co-editor for the annual Construction Law Update, Wolters Kluwer, a contributing author of the World of Arbitration and Mediation Report, and a former adjunct professor of construction law at Southern Polytechnic State University in Georgia.

American Bar Association, sections of International Law and Public Contract Law, Member; Forum Committee on the Construction Industry, Past Member International Bar Association Safe Care Campaign, Member, Member of the Board Society of Construction Law Tulane Arbitration Institute, Certified in International and Domestic Arbitration Tulane Law School, Certificate of Specialization in Civil Law

Tulane University Law SchoolJD, 2001 University of South AlabamaMBA, 1998 Spring Hill CollegeBS, Economics and Finance, 1994