Chad V. Theriot

Chad V. Theriot


Jones Walker LLP

Recognized since 2015

Atlanta, Georgia

Practice Areas

Construction Law

Litigation - Construction

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Chad V. Theriot is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group and a member of the firm’s board of directors. He focuses on major public and commercial construction and infrastructure projects. Chad advises domestic and international clients across a broad spectrum of construction, contracting, and procurement activities. He represents owners, commercial and government contractors, major subcontractors, and original equipment manufacturers in construction litigation and construction claims avoidance. Chad serves as co-chair of the firm’s construction practice team. Chad currently represents US, UK, Austrian, German, South African, and Saudi Arabian companies spanning the globe in the energy, construction, aviation, defense, and shipping sectors. He currently has disputes before the ICC and the LCIA involving international disputes. He also currently represents domestic clients before the AAA and various state and federal courts. Chad has successfully litigated more than $2.5 billion in disputes. His typical range of projects includes representing owners and contractors in the construction and design of energy projects, airports, military bases, power plants, environmental and closure projects, cogeneration plants, oil refineries, hospitals, high-rises, off-shore platforms, hotels, resorts, and a variety of other commercial and industrial construction projects. He also has extensive experience in the aircraft, locomotive, and shipbuilding industries. Before joining Jones Walker, Chad practiced in the Atlanta office of an Am Law 100 firm, where he was a partner on the construction and infrastructure team. Prior to law school, Chad worked as a claims consultant on commercial and government contracts involving project schedule delivery, strategic planning, schedule risks, inefficiency claims, and delay analyses. His work included the preparation and review of claims for delay, disruption, acceleration, and quantifying interruption impacts. Chad is co-editor for the annual Construction Law Update, Wolters Kluwer, a contributing author of the World of Arbitration and Mediation Report, and a former adjunct professor of construction law at Southern Polytechnic State University in Georgia.

Location
  • 3455 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1400
    Atlanta, GA 30326
Education
  • Tulane University, JD, graduated 2001
  • University of South Alabama, MBA, graduated 1998
  • Spring Hill College, BS, graduated 1994
Bar Admissions
  • Georgia, Georgia
  • Louisiana, Louisiana
  • New York, New York
  • North Carolina, North Carolina, North Carolina
Affiliations
  • American Bar Association, Sections of International Law and Public Contract Law, Member; Forum Committee on the Construction Industry - Past Member
  • International Bar Association - Member
  • Safe Care Campaign - Member, Member of the Board
  • Society of Construction Law - Member
  • Tulane Arbitration Institute - Certified in International and Domestic Arbitration
  • Tulane Law School - Certificate of Specialization in Civil Law
Court Admissions
  • Louisiana Supreme Court
  • New York Court of Appeals
  • Supreme Court of Georgia
  • US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • US Court of Federal Claims
  • US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

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Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
  • Construction Law
  • Litigation - Construction
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Arbitration
  • International Arbitration - Commercial

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