Michael Higginbotham is a uniquely experienced trial lawyer who has focused his career on representing owners, architects, and engineers in all aspects of construction litigation. Mr. Higginbotham studied structural engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and U.C. Berkeley Structural Engineering Master’s Programs as well as at the U.S. Army...More

Michael Higginbotham is a uniquely experienced trial lawyer who has focused his career on representing owners, architects, and engineers in all aspects of construction litigation. Mr. Higginbotham studied structural engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and U.C. Berkeley Structural Engineering Master’s Programs as well as at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Branch School. He brings to his work as a trial lawyer an insider’s understanding of the technical aspects of each case as well as a exceptional ability to interface with clients, witnesses and experts.

Mr. Higginbotham’s recent experience includes litigation arising from California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prison projects, California Department of Water Resources hydroelectric, pipeline and tunneling projects, water and wastewater treatment facilities, environmental claims, as well as complex direct cost, delay, and loss of productivity claims arising from OSHPD hospital construction and DSA school construction. Mr. Higginbotham is the past chair of the Professional Practices Committee of SEAONC.
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Areas of Practice

Areas of Expertise

  • Construction litigation and counseling
  • Owners/architects/engineers
  • Professional liability defense
  • Jury trials, binding arbitrations and mediations

Education, Admissions & Achievements

Academic Credentials
  • University of California, Berkeley, B.S. Civil Engineering, 1969
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Structural Engineering Master’s Program, 1970
  • STRUDL Structural Analysis Computer Programmer at M.I.T.
  • University of California, Berkeley, M.S. Structural Engineering, 1971
  • McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, California, J.D. 1974
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Branch School, Ft. Belvoir, VA, 1974

 

Bar Admissions
  • State Bar of California 1974

 

Recent Accomplishments
  • Defense verdict on school construction claim against architect
  • Plaintiff verdict on Home Owners Association claim
  • Successfully settled wrongful death claim against engineer
  • Successfully settled wrongful death, personal injury and property damage claims against engineer resulting from gas pipeline explosion
  • Successfully arbitrated direct cost, delay and loss of productivity claim involving the Devil Canyon Power Plant

 

Expertise & Affiliations

Special Expertise
  • Defense of designers in OSHPD litigation
  • Defense of designers is DSA litigation

 

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