Mark L. Fleder is a senior partner with Connell Foley’s Construction Law and Business Litigation practice groups. He has served as the firm’s Co-Chairman of the Construction group section for many years and has been a member of the firm’s Executive Committee for the past 20 years.

Since 1971, Mr. Fleder has handled construction matters and conducted numerous trials, appeals, arbitrations, and mediations. Many of these cases concerned complex technical issues such as defective construction, warranties, design flaws, and payment issues pertaining to claims for extras, delays, damages, and back charges. Mr. Fleder has also assisted in matters involving complicated insurance and defense problems.

Mr. Fleder's practice includes representation of contractors, specialty sub-contractors and suppliers, design professionals and both public and private owners. In addition, he has handled OSHA cases and has been part of accident and catastrophe situations to assist with the coordination of clients’ responses. Mr. Fleder has served as part of the public owner’s project teams during the construction of major New Jersey projects including a $400 million dollar prison and a $100 million mental hospital. More recently, he has assisted financing instructions with construction defect and default issues.

Mr. Fleder served as Law Secretary to Hon. Joseph H. Stamler, New Jersey Superior Court, Chancery Division, 1969-1970. Additionally, he served as Legal Assistant to Administrative Director of the Courts, 1970, for a special confidential assignment for the Governor. For more then ten years, Mr. Fleder was a Faculty Member/Speaker for the National Practicing Law Institute’s Construction Law Program on the subject of Delay Claims.