Lindy K. Stevens

Associate

Lindy Stevens is an associate in VLMG’s Tysons Corner office. Lindy focuses her practice on construction litigation and government contracts.  Lindy concentrates on complex litigation, representing design professionals, general contractors, and subcontractors across a range of public and private projects in the United States and abroad.  Lindy has extensive experience with both the discovery and pre-trial motion phases of litigation, from e-discovery and depositions through dispositive motions practice.

Prior to joining VLMG, Lindy clerked for the Honorable Jane Marum Roush of the Supreme Court of Virginia.  During law school, Lindy worked in the Office of the General Counsel at Washington and Lee University and served as an intern for the District of Columbia Public Defender Service.  Lindy also served as an Articles editor for the Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice.

Before law school, Lindy taught elementary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with Teach for America, a national organization of recent college graduates working to promote educational equity in low-income schools across the U.S.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Currently lead counsel representing large solar power plant contractor in Virginia Circuit Court in multiple disputes involving solar plants across Virginia.
• Currently lead counsel representing commercial construction contractor in breach of contract and lien enforcement action in Virginia Circuit Court.
• Member of trial team representing heavy civil contractor on $100+ million in claims against the government entity arising out of Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Program contract for construction of 3,400 acre reservoir and canal system.
• Represented general contractor in arbitration related to the construction of solar power plant in North Carolina arising out of disputes involving project company.  Following full evidentiary hearing, AAA panel denied in full the project company’s $66 million claim and allowed general contractor to seek recovery of legal fees.
• Member of trial team that represented general contractor in disputes related to the reconstruction of a paper machine at a pulp and paper mill in Skowhegan, Maine. Served as counsel in 4-week arbitration hearing before the American Arbitration Association, after which VLMG’s client was awarded nearly $28 Million (approximately 95% of the client’s claim) plus expenses, while fully defeating Owner counterclaim seeking return of $8.6 Million already paid to client.
• Member of trial team that represented constructor making claims for delay, disruption and extra work against EPC contractor arising out of cement processing plant in California. Upon conclusion of main evidentiary hearing, AAA panel rendered award to client 30 times greater than the highest pre-award settlement offer, zeroed out the EPC contractor’s counterclaim, and awarded prevailing party legal fees to client.
• Member of trial team that represented prime contractor for construction of medical research facility in District of Columbia in connection with over $54 million in claims against Owner and from subcontractors.

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Co-author: Economic Loss Doctrine, ABA Under Construction, Volume 22, Issue 3, Spring 2021