Biography

Mr. Dulik is a partner in Sedgwick’s San Francisco office where he specializes in representing construction-industry clients in a wide variety of legal matters arising on private and public projects. He has extensive experience prosecuting and defending construction claims before State and Federal courts, governmental administrative tribunals, arbitrators and mediators. He also has substantial experience negotiating and drafting construction contracts, pursuing and opposing bid protests, and counseling builders, owners and engineers during the course of the construction process. In addition to handling construction matters, he also has successfully litigated numerous commercial, product liability, toxic tort, and probate cases.

Representative Matters

• Defense of construction manager against $84 million modified total cost claim related to the construction of Miller Park, the home of the Milwaukee Brewers professional baseball team.
• Prosecution of general contractor’s multi-million dollar delay and disruption claims in connection with the construction of a high-rise condominium complex in San Francisco.
• Defense of major building material manufacturer against multiple product liability/construction defect cases throughout California, culminating in a national class action settlement. (One of these cases, Regency Park v. Weyerhaueser Co. (Stanislaus County Superior Court), was recognized by the San Francisco Daily Journal as one of the Top 10 defense verdicts in California in 2002.)
• Prosecution of general contractor’s multi-million dollar total cost claim against a public agency related to the construction of a geothermal power plant in Northern California.
• Defense of design-build contractor against claim of bid manipulation by prospective security system subcontractor related to the design and construction of a detention facility in San Francisco.
• Prosecution of commercial tenant’s breach of lease claim for defective building conditions at a large campus complex in the Silicon Valley.
• Defense of engineer and construction manager against owner’s multi-million dollar breach of contract and fraud claims related to the modernization of a cement manufacturing facility in Southern California.
• Prosecution of general contractor’s cost overrun claims arising out of a major excavation project undertaken in connection with the construction of a high-rise hotel in downtown San Francisco.
• Defense of owner and general contractor against electrical subcontractor’s multi-million dollar delay, disruption and design deficiency claims arising out of the construction of a food processing facility in Visalia, California.
• Prosecution of architect/engineer’s breach of contract and fraud claims against a private developer arising out of turn-key projects for the design and construction of a public library and a public office building in Bakersfield, California. 
• Defense of general contractors against premises liability claims for asbestos exposure.

Affiliations, Activities and Accomplishments

Mr. Dulik is admitted to practice before all of the courts of the State of California, as well as before the United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In addition, he has been admitted pro hac vice to handle significant matters in Guam and Wisconsin.

He is a member of the American Bar Association (Forum on the Construction Industry; Litigation Section), the California State Bar Association, and the Bar Association of San Francisco.

He has twice been named a “Super Lawyer” in the area of construction law by San Francisco Magazine.