Construction & Professional Liability

 
   
 

J. MICHAEL HIGGINBOTHAM

Partner Michael Higginbotham is an experienced trial lawyer defending owners, architects, and engineers in construction related litigation involving State of California prison projects, State of California hydroelectric projects, Department of Water Resources pipeline and tunneling projects, water treatment plants, environmental claims, sewage and wastewater treatment facilities, post-tensioned concrete failures, construction accidents and complex delay claims.  Mr. Higginbotham lectures frequently on construction litigation and construction related issues.

Education

ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS BRANCH SCHOOL
Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, 1974 

MCGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC 
Sacramento, California 
J.D., 1974 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 
Berkeley, California 
M.S., Structural Engineering, 1971 

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 
Cambridge, Massachusetts 
Structural Engineering Master's Program, 1970 

STRUDL Structural Analysis Computer Programmer 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 
Berkeley, California 
B.S., Civil Engineering, 1969.

Bar Admissions

State Bar of California, December 1974

Professional Organizations and Activities

Member: State Bar of California; American Society of Civil Engineers; American Arbitration Association; Structural Engineers Association of Northern California.

Personal

Born: Hattiesburg, Mississippi

 

   

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