ROGER W. BRADLEY, ESQ.
Mr. Bradley, a graduate of Colgate University and a magna cum laude graduate of
Syracuse University College of Law, is a biographee of Who's Who of American Law and Who’s
Who in America. He is a member of the American Bar Association; Forum Committee on
Construction Industry; Tort and Insurance Practice Section – Fidelity and Surety Committee; and
Litigation Section, and Business Law Section. He is also a member of New York State Bar
Association Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, Construction Specifications Institute and
the Construction Industry Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. He is a
member of the U.S. Green Building Council and Greening USA. He is a former Confidential Law
Clerk to a Justice of the Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department and a former Special
Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York.
Mr. Bradley has represented owners, lenders, sureties, contractors and subcontractors
and suppliers in virtually every aspect of construction litigation including contract drafting,
mechanic’s liens, bond claims, trust fund issues, as well as defending and prosecuting claims for
extra work, delay and disruption, and subsurface conditions.
Mr. Bradley has litigated numerous surety and construction cases involving both public
and private projects including: defense of a multi-million dollar surety indemnity claim involving a
series of large construction projects in the Southwest United States; representation of a general
contractor and surety on an $80 million co-generation project involving in excess of 50 claims
totaling millions of dollars in payment bond claims, including prosecution of claims against a cosurety; defense of a million dollar construction claim against the owner of a nuclear power plant;
prosecution of bond claim after collapse of out-of-state grain storage facility; representation of the
County of Onondaga in connection with construction defects in a fourteen-story Civic Center
building and as consultant in connection with several million dollars in claims relating to the
Justice Center building; representation of municipal owners in other construction matters
including defense of a large sewer line construction claims, and prior representation on behalf of
the Onondaga County Water Authority and has served as a consultant to the County of
Onondaga on the $350 million cleanup of Onondaga Lake, as well as on the other multi million
dollar projects. Mr. Bradley has also served as a consultant to the City of Syracuse on matters
involving in excess of one million dollars in claims. Mr. Bradley has been an Arbitrator for the
American Arbitration Association and served on its arbitration panels for approximately twentyfive years and is a member of the Dispute Resolution Panel for the U. S. District Court for the
Northern District of New York. He currently serves as chairman of arbitration panels in Buffalo
and Albany. He also has served as program coordinator and speaker at seminars including:
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N.Y. Lien and Construction Law
Contracting for Public Entities in New York
Design Defects in New York
N.Y. Building Code
Construction Commissioning in New York
Construction Litigation in New York
Architects and Engineers in New York
Construction Management and Design Build in New York
Toxic Mold
Roger W. Bradley, Esq.
MELVIN & MELVIN, PLLC
217 South Salina Street
Syracuse, New York 13202-1390
Telephone (315) 422-1311
Telefax (315) 479-7612
Email: rbradley@melvinlaw.com