JD | Contracts
KIMBERLY A. HURTADO is the Managing Shareholder of Hurtado, S.C., Counselors at Law, located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. She focuses her practice in the areas of complex construction dispute resolution, contract negotiation, disadvantaged business enterprise program development, public bond issuance, and best practices consultation on electronic communications and building information modeling use on construction projects. Ms. Hurtado holds an M.A. in Communications and a J.D. from Marquette University, and was a Law Clerk to Chief Justice Roland B. Day of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Ms. Hurtado is the past President of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Construction and Public Contract Law Section (1997-98), is a member of the Associated General Contractors of America’s Contract Documents Committee (1997-present), and of the British Society of Construction Law (2008). She has served as a member of the Board of Governors (2000-2003), and is the past Chair of the Contract Negotiation, Supervision and Administration Division (1997-99), of the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Construction Industry. Ms. Hurtado was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers (2005-present) and serves on its Building Information Modeling Committee. Ms. Hurtado also has served as an adjunct lecturer at Marquette University Law School, and at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, University of Arizona-Tempe and University of Austin-Texas Graduate School of Construction in the areas of ADR, Construction Contracts, Partnering, Design/Build Construction and Solo Practitioner Administration.
Ms. Hurtado was selected by Engineering News Record in its Construction’s Next Generation Leaders Series and is named in Who’s Who Among American Lawyers. She has been named in Super Lawyers (2006-2008) and as one of the Top Twenty-Five Most Influential Women Lawyers in Wisconsin. She is a co-author and editor of Partnering in Construction: A Practical Guide to Project Success, and has written numerous legal treatises and articles regarding construction law. Ms. Hurtado frequently acts as a partnering facilitator, a private mediator and arbitrator, and lecturer on construction, ADR and insurance issues.