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: • • • • • • • • • 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