Varela, Lee, Metz & Guarino has once again been recommended by the Legal 500 United States as a top firm in the Construction practice area for 2022. Moreover, the guide highlighted Brian Dugdale as a Next Generation Partner for 2022.

The Legal 500 guide boasts 'the construction dispute specialists at VARELA, LEE, METZ, & GUARINO, LLP are regularly engaged in high-stakes cases across the United States and internationally, specializing in bet-the-company matters and routinely handling disputes in excess of $100m for Fortune 500 companies and a host of major contractors. Tysons Corner, Virginia is the primary office for the practice and three of its four-strong leadership team operate from there: Paul Varela counsels prominent names in the global construction industry; Todd Metz has experience before arbitration tribunals, adjudication and review boards, and local and federal courts; and Joseph Guarino, a seasoned construction litigator with recent experience acting in some of the major power plant cases internationally. The fourth of the practice heads, Bennett Lee, is based in San Francisco and has significant experience before both federal and state courts, and domestic and international arbitration associations, on the gamut of construction law issues. Further key contacts in Tysons Corner include Brian Dugdale, whose experience covers a breadth of projects, from transport infrastructure to data centers and high-rise office and condominium complexes; and David Wonderlick, who has over a decade of experience in construction litigation and alternative dispute resolution nationally and worldwide'.

The Legal 500 Series is widely acknowledged as the world’s largest legal referral guide. More than 250,000 corporate counsel have been surveyed and interviewed globally in the past 12 months. The Legal 500 is an independent guide, and firms and individuals are recommended purely on merit. The Legal 500 Series' analysis of law firm capabilities extends to 107 jurisdictions worldwide. The website www.legal500.com has 4 million unique individual users each year, including 2.5 million corporate counsel. Used by commercial and private clients, corporate counsel, CEOs, CFOs and professional advisers - as well as by other referrers of work both nationally and internationally - the series is widely chosen for its definitive judgement of law firm capabilities.