Christopher I. McCabe, Esq., Senior Counsel (vCard)
Christopher I. McCabe, Senior Counsel with the firm, counsels clients on a full range of issues concerning commercial and residential construction projects, including delay and interference claims, claims for prompt payment, surety bond claims, and mechanics' liens.  Mr. McCabe has litigated, arbitrated, and mediated both public and private construction disputes in the state and federal courts.  Mr. McCabe also counsels clients on a full range of public contract and procurement matters, especially with regard to contracts awarded by the City of Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of General Services, and other Pennsylvania authorities and municipalities.  Mr. McCabe regularly advises clients regarding compliance with the U.S. Department of Transportation's regulations for its disadvantaged business enterprise program for contracts funded by PennDOT or awarded by the Philadelphia International Airport and the Philadelphia Streets Department.  Mr. McCabe also advises clients on matters involving public contract disputes and claims in both the Pennsylvania Board of Claims and lower courts.  Mr. McCabe also counsels clients on commercial and residential construction claims and real estate disputes.  Mr. McCabe also counsels and represents clients on general litigation matters involving business and other disputes.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. McCabe served for 13 years in the Commercial Litigation Unit of the City of Philadelphia’s Law Department—regularly advising the City’s departments and agencies on questions of public bidding and contract procedures, construction and surety claims, and real estate disputes.  Clients included the Procurement Department, the Department of Public Property, the Water and Streets Departments, the Philadelphia International Airport, and the Capital Program Office.

He is the only lawyer now in private practice who had had such a lengthy tenure with the City in the area of public contracting and construction claims.

Mr. McCabe served from 1986 to 1988 as a law clerk for the Hon. Donald E. Wieand of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. A 1983 graduate of Georgetown University, Mr. McCabe earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law in May 1986.

In 1991, Mr. McCabe was honored by the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division with the Craig M. Perry Community Service Award for his extraordinary advocacy on behalf of the underprivileged and unrepresented people in the Philadelphia community. A founding member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Homeless Advocacy Project, he has also served on the Boards of Directors of Philadelphia VIP and Pennsylvania Legal Services.

He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Litigation and Public Contract Law Sections and the Forum on the Construction Industry, and the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Business Law and Real Property Sections.