Quinn Murphy serves as the Office Managing Partner for the firm’s Tampa office. Quinn brings over 20 years of legal and trial experience to the firm. His practice focuses on business, construction, and commercial litigation. Quinn has represented contractors, subcontractors, manufacturers, real estate developers in litigation throughout the United States. He is a trial lawyer with significant trial experience in state and federal court. In addition to his significant first chair trial experience, Quinn has successfully mediated and arbitrated disputes to resolution in Florida, Illinois, Missouri, California, New York, and throughout the United States.
Construction
- Representing contractors, equipment rental companies, subcontractors, and suppliers in filing and prosecuting mechanics lien and payment bond claims in all 50 states.
- Prosecuting and defending claims of defective construction and project delay throughout the United States.
- Represented contractor in unlawful interference claim based on design professional’s interference with project bid.
- Defended project owner in claim for $7.5 million project cost overage asserted by general contractor.
- Assisting clients throughout the United States in designing internal collection system to maximize accounts receivable recovery.
Environmental Contamination
- Defended property owner in California against purchaser’s claim for recovery of $5 million EPA-mandated soil remediation costs arising from petroleum infiltration.
- Represented Illinois college in prosecution of $1.5 million claim to recover mold remediation cost against HVAC contractor arising from defective product and design.
- Defended seller of property in Chicago, Illinois in $3.5 million action filed by property purchaser based on diesel fuel leak and soil/water remediation cost.
- Defended contractor in Madison County, Illinois against personal injury claims of aerosol fume inhalation arising from application of concrete sealant in commercial warehouse.
- Featured, AI Arbitrator could cut costs, speed up dispute resolution, AGC Risk Management SmartBrief, March 5, 2026
- Author, Artificial intelligence arbitration: New frontier or risky gamble?, The Construction Broadsheet, March 3, 2026
- Quoted, Legal Q and A: Preserving payment and lien right in 2025, The Construction Broadsheet, January 30, 2025
- Quoted, Legal Q and A: Addressing big payment problems, The Construction Broadsheet, November 2024
- Quoted, Legal Q and A: Personal liability for company problems, The Construction Broadsheet, September 2024
- Quoted, Legal Q and A: Subcontract pointers for subs and GC’s, The Construction Broadsheet, May 2024
- Quoted, Legal Q & A: Dealing with sub/supplier late payment issues, The Construction Broadsheet, March 2024
- Author, The Do’s and Don’ts of Construction Collections, Build America, March 2024
- Author, Legal Q & A: Can we still get paid?, AGC Smartbrief, December 2023
- Author, Legal Q and A: “Can we still get paid?, The Construction Broadsheet, December 2023
- Author, No Payment, No Lien, No Problem: Securing Payment When Your Contractor Goes Bankrupt & Your Lien Rights Expire, St. Louis Construction News & Review, October 2023
- Author, Legal Q and A: Who pays for jobsite violence and vandalism?, The Construction Broadsheet, August 2023
- Author, Legal Q and A: New rules for independent contractors?, The Construction Broadsheet, July 2023
- Author, Avoiding War: Underutilized Dispute Resolution Methods, Construction News and Review, 2023
- Author, Legal Q and A: Are digital docs and email really good enough?, The Construction Broadsheet, May 2023
- Author, “Avoiding Construction Defect Litigation with Quinn Murphy, Episode 6, Build St. Louis Podcast, May 2023
- Author, Legal Q and A: Responsibility for damage on/around project site, The Construction Broadsheet, April 2023
- Author, Surviving the Perfect Storm: Five Ways to Handle Contractual Disagreements over Instructions to Proceed, Construction News and Review, 2023
- Author, Litigation Poker: Five Contract Provisions that Tilt Litigation Odds in Your Favor, Saint Louis Construction News and Review, 2023
- Author, Legal Q and A: Critical tasks to start off 2023, The Construction Broadsheet, January 5, 2023
- Author, Construction Collections 101: Five Ways to More Effectively Pursue Collections, St. Louis Construction News, November 28, 2022
- Quoted, Legal Q and A: Navigating through a project cancellation, The Construction Broadsheet, September 2022
- Quoted, Legal Q and A: Tricky owner situations, The Construction Broadsheet, June 2022
- Quoted, Legal Q and A: Joint venture potential pitfalls, The Construction Broadsheet, April 2022
- Quoted, Legal Q and A: How to handle some tricky contract disputes, The Construction Broadsheet, December 2021
- Quoted, Legal Q and A: Scope creep and contractors that don’t have enough workforce capacity, The Construction Broadsheet, December 2021
- Quoted, Legal Q and A: Material delays and verbal change orders, The Construction Broadsheet, September 2021
- Quoted, The Dotted Line: As material delays persist, it pays to know what’s in your contract, Construction Dive, April 2021
- Quoted, The Dotted Line: 6 ways a construction contract can become unenforceable, Construction Forum, January 2021
- Quoted, The Dotted Line: 6 ways a construction contract can become unenforceable, Construction Dive, January 2021
- Quoted, The Dotted Line: The pros and cons of construction manager delivery methods, Construction Dive, July 2020
- Quoted, The Dotted Line: How to get payment from slow-paying general contractors, Construction Dive, February 25, 2020
- Quoted, OSHA: Faulty wiring at Universal Orlando caused electric shocks to employees, guests, Construction Dive, November 14, 2019
- Quoted, How technology can help contractors prevent lawsuits, Construction Dive, October 2, 2019
- Quoted, Moody’s: Fixed-price E&C contracts can be more risk than reward, Construction Dive, September 10, 2019
- Quoted, The Dotted Line: How to make the most of contingency funds, Construction Dive, June 2019
- Quoted, How Construction Cos. Can Weather Another Gov’t Shutdown, Law360, January 28, 2019
- Quoted, What Construction Attys Need To Know About AI, Law360, October 19, 2018
- Quoted, $42 million Becker Iron & Metal holds onto its family business feel, St. Louis Business Journal, October 12, 2018
- Quoted, Baseball Arbitration In Construction Can Be Good In A Pinch, Law360, August 31, 2018
- Author, Miami Bridges Falling Down: Four Ways to Survive (and Grow Stronger) Through Disaster, e-Law Lines, August 2, 2018
- Quoted, Forensic BIM: Using modeling to resolve disputes and claims, Construction Dive, June 18, 2018
- Quoted, Kiewit awarded $45M in Los Angeles utility project dispute, Construction Dive, June 13, 2018
- Quoted, The Dotted Line: What contractors need to know about arbitration, Construction Dive, May 15, 2018
- Miami Bridges Falling Down: Four Ways to Survive (and Grow Stronger) Through Disaster, Construction Executive, May 8, 2018
- Quoted, Construction Law: To Specialize Or Not To Specialize, Law360, May 8, 2018
- Quoted, 3 Construction Cases To Watch, Law360, May 7, 2018
- Quoted, What You Can Learn from the Miami Bridge Collapse, Construction Business Owner, April 26, 2018
- Quoted, What to expect from the fallout following a catastrophic jobsite incident, Construction Dive, April 2018
- Quoted, The Dotted Line: How to develop a collaborative team that wins bids, Construction Dive, March 2018
- Do you hear that buzzing or is it just me? How use of drones is changing construction management forever, Construction Litigation Blog, August 2016
Admissions
- Florida
- Missouri
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of Florida
- U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri
- U.S. District Court, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of Illinois
Memberships
- American Bar Association – Construction Division
- American Subcontractor Association – Midwest
- Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL)
- Home Builders Association of Greater Southwest Illinois
- Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri
- Missouri Bar Construction Law Committee, Chair
- Site Improvement Association
- Inducted Fellow, Construction Lawyer’s Society of America
- Trial Law Institute
Community Involvement
- Former Board Member, Board of Directors for Lighthouse for the Blind
Education
- J.D., cum laude, Saint Louis University School of Law
- Article Editor for the St. Louis University Law Journal
- Moot Court Champion
- Academic Excellence Award
- M.B.A., Drury University
- B.A., Business Administration, Drury University
Honors
- Top Lawyer, Litigation: Construction, Tampa Magazine, 2026
- Best Lawyers in America® distinction in Construction Law, 2021-2026, Litigation – Construction, 2021-2026
- Top Legal Innovation Award Recipient, Missouri Lawyers Weekly, 2018
- Super Lawyers® Rising Star, 2012, 2024
- Up & Coming Lawyer, Missouri Lawyers Weekly, 2011
- Charter Fellow, Construction Lawyers Society of American