Experience

Andrew J. Carlowicz, Jr. devotes his law practice exclusively to representing clients in the construction industry. Andy has practiced law with Hoagland Longo since 1983 and joined the firm's partnership in 1990. He currently serves as co-partner in charge of the firm's construction litigation practice group. He is actively involved in the representation of architects, engineers, construction contractors, land surveyors and private owners in professional malpractice claims, various construction contract and delay damage claims, property damage suits, building defect litigation, and construction site personal injury actions. Andy also litigates affirmative contract claims and provides extensive non-litigation consultation services such as contract review and risk management counseling. He currently serves as corporate counsel for numerous architectural firms located throughout New Jersey.

Andy has litigated many cases in the New Jersey Superior Courts, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and before the American Arbitration Association (Construction Division). He also has extensive experience mediating complex construction disputes. In 1995, he devoted a substantial amount of pro bono time to the lobbying efforts of the New Jersey Society of Professional Engineers in their efforts to achieve passage of the Affidavit of Merit Statute. Since the mid-1990s he has written many articles relating to legal issues that affect the construction industry, including an article published in Builder/Architect magazine entitled, The Constitutional Right to Equal Public School Facilities in New Jersey. Another of his articles, entitled The Engineer's Need For A Written Contract, was published in Engineering Times. In 2007 he co-authored an article entitled What About the Architects? which explored the applicability of the Engineer’s Site Safety Statute to architects. Currently he is litigating a matter before the Appellate Division on that very issue.

Andy has a Martindale-Hubbell "AV" rating, which is the highest rating awarded, identifies a lawyer with "very high to preeminent legal ability and is a reflection of his expertise, experience, integrity and overall professional excellence." He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Construction Industry Section, and has appeared as a guest lecturer for the group. He has been approved as panel counsel for most of the professional liability insurance companies that underwrite claims in New Jersey. Andy was selected by peer review for inclusion in the 2009 and 2010 issues of The Best Lawyers in America® in the Construction Law specialty.

Andy has regularly presented risk management seminars to the construction industry during the last fifteen years at the request of professional societies, Lorman Business Services, professional liability insurance companies, and their brokers. Andrew has also been appointed by the American Arbitration Association as an arbitrator for complex construction litigation. He currently is also available to be retained directly as either an arbitrator or a mediator in New Jersey construction disputes.

Previously, Andy was Counsel of Record for the design professionals in the following important, published construction litigation cases: Sykes vs Sullivan Engineering, 224 NJ Super 696 (App. Div. 1988), which established the standard of care applicable to design professionals in the absence of a contract, Gelber vs Zito Partnership, 147 NJ 561 (1997), which established a rule of law when multiple claims arising out of the same project are separately brought in court and before the American Arbitration Association, and Greczyn v Colgate, 183 NJ 5 (2005), a case of first impression regarding the ten year statute of repose. He also worked on behalf of the architect who was dismissed from the suit based on the ten year statute of repose in Daidone vs. Buterick, 191 NJ 557 (2007).

Andy's favorite part of the practice of law has been the opportunity to coach the Stuart Country Day School's high school mock trial team since 2005. During the 2006-2007 competition, their team won the Mercer County championship, and they advanced to the regional finals for first time in the school's history. His daughter, Cecilia, who is now in college, was one of the team's lawyers that year. Presently, his younger daughter, Agnes Claire, is on the team.