Professionals

Allison Snyder is a partner in the litigation practice group and construction section of Porter Hedges. She has more than 30 years of experience representing companies and individuals in complex business and construction disputes involving fraud, breach of contract, negligence, noncompetition issues, business torts, and matters involving emergency injunctive relief.

She has extensive experience in:

• construction contract litigation
• construction delay, acceleration and inefficiency claims
• construction defect litigation and non-conforming goods claims
• takeover and tender disputes
• differing site conditions claims
• payment and performance claims
• change order and warranty claims
• wrongful termination claims
• construction insurance and indemnity issues
• design defect disputes
• claims for extras
• contractor default workouts
• bond and lien claims preparation and litigation
• related litigation between owners, sureties, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and design professionals
• construction contract negotiation and drafting
• arbitration and mediation of complex construction and commercial cases

Ms. Snyder has arbitrated and litigated claims involving commercial, industrial and petrochemical projects ranging from high rise towers, hospitals, schools and prisons to power plants, petrochemical refineries and drilling rigs to on and off shore production facilities.

For clients in the energy, petrochemical and petroleum industries, Ms. Snyder has worked with both service companies and companies with physical plants and pipeline facilities in their contract negotiations, defective construction claims, and delay claim litigation.

Ms. Snyder is listed as one of America's leading lawyers in construction law by Chambers USA and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for construction law since 2006. She has been selected for inclusion in Texas Super Lawyers in Construction Surety Law since 2004 and Super Lawyers, Business Edition for the State of Texas in Construction/Surety Law since 2009. In the June 2008 issue of H Texas Magazine, Ms. Snyder was listed as a "Houston Top Lawyer" in the area of Construction Litigation.

ADR Experience

Ms. Snyder has over 20 years of experience chairing numerous arbitration panels and acting as sole arbitrator in commercial and construction disputes, including both international and domestic.  Additionally, she possesses over 20 years' experience mediating construction and commercial disputes.

• Represented a contractor in construction defect litigation with a Texas municipality involving slab failure and mold claims.
• Represented a contractor in litigation with a defaulting subcontractor's surety regarding defective work in three power plants.
• Represented an oil and gas operating company in oil and gas accounting litigation.
• Represented a general contractor against a national supplier/subcontractor in the recovery of a multimillion judgment involving fraud, breach of contract and DTPA claims.
• Successful recovery of delay claim and extra work claim for a subcontractor against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
• Represented contractors and sureties in prosecuting extra work claims, delay claims and differing site condition claims against various U.S. Governmental entities from the Request for Equitable Adjustment through the Board of Contract Appeals.
• Represented sureties in numerous takeover scenarios involved in completing multiple public and private projects including the takeover of a defaulted general contractor on 8 public and private projects simultaneously.
• Represented subcontractors and contractors in prosecuting payment claims, extra work claims, wrongful termination claims, delay claims and differing site conditions claims against various municipalities, counties, school districts and MUDS.
• Represented subcontractors and suppliers in prosecuting bond and lien claims.
• Represented sureties in defending bond and lien claims.
• Represented contractors in bid protests against public entities.
• Represented general contractors in fraud, breach of contract, DTPA and negligence disputes with both owners and subcontractors.
• Represented public and private owners in various breach of contract disputes with general contractors.
• Represented public and private owners in tort and contract disputes with design professionals.

• Martindale Hubbell AV Rated Attorney
• American Bar Association, Member 
• State Bar of Texas, Member of the Construction Law Section (Chair 1999-2000), Construction Law Conference Planning Committee (1993-2001), District 4D Grievance Committee
• Houston Bar Association, Member of the Construction Law Section (Chair 1997-1998), Courts & Courthouse Facilities Committee, the Judicial Liaison Committee, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, and the Administration of Justice Committee 
• Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Houston Bar Foundation, Fellow 
• College of the State Bar of Texas, Fellow 
• Garland Walker Inns of Court, Member 
• American Arbitration Association, Member of the Large, Complex Case Panel and Regular Panel of Arbitrators
• International Center for Dispute Resolution, Member of the Panel of Arbitrators
• Attorney Mediators, Inc., Member
• Association of Attorney-Mediators, Member of Houston Chapter

Industry Trade Associations

• Associated General Contractors of America, Member
• Houston Contractors Association, Member
• Associated Builders and Contractors, Member 
• ABC Houston Legal Issues Committee, Member and Chair (2004-2005)
• ABC PAC Committee, Trustee (2004-2006)
• Women Contractors Association, Member and Past Board Member (2000-2003)