Maria Ramirez post bar law clerk

Maria F. Ramirez Cornejo

Attorney

Maria F. Ramirez Cornejo supports the firm’s construction law and business and commercial litigation practices. Firm clients include general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and sureties involved in both public and private construction projects.

Attorneys

zenzverm@sgoynj.pbz

(858) 737-3100, Ext. 3115

(858) 737-3101

PROFILE

Maria F. Ramirez Cornejo supports the firm’s construction law and business and commercial litigation practices. Firm clients include general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and sureties involved in both public and private construction projects.

DELAY, INEFFICIENCY, AND EXTRA WORK CLAIMS

Participants in construction projects frequently face financial and operational challenges due to delays, design errors, project inefficiencies, and other complications. Maria’s assists in identifying the right questions and gathering essential information to help the team address client concerns, manage disputes, and expedite resolutions.

FEDERAL PROCUREMENT AND CLAIMS

Payment delays from project owners are a frequent issue for general contractors, design-builders, and construction managers. Subcontractors often face challenges in receiving payment for their work. Maria assists in protecting clients’ payment rights through mechanisms like mechanic’s liens, stop payment notices, and payment bonds, with a focus on maximizing recovery through swift resolution and efficient collections.

COLLECTIONS PROSECUTION

Payment delays from project owners are a frequent issue for general contractors, design builders, and construction managers. Subcontractors often face challenges in receiving payment for their work. Maria assists in protecting clients’ payment rights through mechanisms like mechanic’s liens, stop payment notices, and payment bonds, with a focus on maximizing recovery through swift resolution and efficient collections.

EXPERIENCE

  • Construction litigation
  • Contract defaults
  • General business litigation
  • Real property

RESULTS

Unpaid Second Tier Subcontractor Recovers Principal, Interest and Attorneys’ Fees

The firm represented a landscape contractor, who installed new landscape and irrigation on a project for the State of California. The firm’s client was a second tier subcontractor to a subcontractor owned by the brother of the owner of the general contractor. The firm’s client was terminated at the maintenance stage of the job, and paid nothing. The firm filed suit against the two brother-owned construction firms and the payment bond surety of the general contractor. After discovery and proving the surety was at risk, the case settled for payment to the firm’s client of more than 150% of the principal claim.

Counsel: P. Randolph Finch Jr., Esq., Andrea L. Petray, Esq., Maria F. Ramirez Cornejo, Esq.

PROFILE

Maria F. Ramirez Cornejo supports the firm’s construction law and business and commercial litigation practices. Firm clients include general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and sureties involved in both public and private construction projects.

DELAY, INEFFICIENCY, AND EXTRA WORK CLAIMS

Participants in construction projects frequently face financial and operational challenges due to delays, design errors, project inefficiencies, and other complications. Maria’s assists in identifying the right questions and gathering essential information to help the team address client concerns, manage disputes, and expedite resolutions.

FEDERAL PROCUREMENT AND CLAIMS

Payment delays from project owners are a frequent issue for general contractors, design-builders, and construction managers. Subcontractors often face challenges in receiving payment for their work. Maria assists in protecting clients’ payment rights through mechanisms like mechanic’s liens, stop payment notices, and payment bonds, with a focus on maximizing recovery through swift resolution and efficient collections.

COLLECTIONS PROSECUTION

Payment delays from project owners are a frequent issue for general contractors, design builders, and construction managers. Subcontractors often face challenges in receiving payment for their work. Maria assists in protecting clients’ payment rights through mechanisms like mechanic’s liens, stop payment notices, and payment bonds, with a focus on maximizing recovery through swift resolution and efficient collections.

EXPERIENCE

  • Construction litigation
  • Contract defaults
  • General business litigation
  • Real property

RESULTS

Unpaid Second Tier Subcontractor Recovers Principal, Interest and Attorneys’ Fees

The firm represented a landscape contractor, who installed new landscape and irrigation on a project for the State of California. The firm’s client was a second tier subcontractor to a subcontractor owned by the brother of the owner of the general contractor. The firm’s client was terminated at the maintenance stage of the job, and paid nothing. The firm filed suit against the two brother-owned construction firms and the payment bond surety of the general contractor. After discovery and proving the surety was at risk, the case settled for payment to the firm’s client of more than 150% of the principal claim.

Counsel: P. Randolph Finch Jr., Esq., Andrea L. Petray, Esq., Maria F. Ramirez Cornejo, Esq.

Maria F. Ramirez Cornejo supports the firm’s construction law and business and commercial litigation practices. Firm clients include general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and sureties involved in both public and private construction projects.

Attorneys

zenzverm@sgoynj.pbz

(858) 737-3100, Ext. 3115

(858) 737-3101

SUPPORT

Jennifer L. Dawson
Legal Secretary

wqnjfba@sgoynj.pbz

PRACTICES

  • Construction Law
    • Claims & Disputes
    • Local Agency, Municipal
      & State Contracts
    •  Federal Procurement & Claims
    • Real Estate
    • Collections
  • Business & Commercial Litigation

EDUCATION

  • Universidad Iberoamericana,
    J.D., cum laude
  • University of San Diego,
    Masters of Law

ADMISSIONS

California Courts

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