Halina Sobczak
Partner · Construction disputes
Halina spent six years running job costs for a commercial builder before law school. She reads a pay application the way the project manager wrote it.
She represents owners, general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers in payment, delay and defect disputes, in court and in construction arbitration.
She leads the firm's construction group and is the second lawyer on many of its contract cases.
Works on
- Payment and retainage claims
- Mechanic's liens and bond claims
- Delay and defect cases
- Construction arbitration
Halina's admissions and education
- Bar admissions
- New York2006Pennsylvania2011
- Courts
- New York State courts2006U.S. District Court, Western District of New York2007
- Education
- J.D., University at Buffalo School of Law2005B.S., Civil Engineering Technology, Buffalo State1997
- Languages
- EnglishPolishfluent
- Memberships
- Bar Association of Erie County, Construction Law Committee
Away from the job site
Halina grew up in Cheektowaga in a Polish-speaking house and still does the family's Wigilia supper every December.
She rows on the Black Rock Canal in summer and restores old wooden windows, slowly, in the house she shares with her husband in Kenmore.