Jihan Murad is a senior partner at W&D Law. Jihan has over 18 years of experience in construction law and complex civil litigation. Jihan’s practice includes the representation of architects, engineers, and other design professionals in a wide array of high exposure actions that include catastrophic personal injury, defective design, delay and disruption litigation involving commercial and residential buildings, high-rise condominiums, universities, bridges, highways and other public works improvement projects. Jihan has worked on some of the largest design and construction defect actions in the nation, including claims exceeding $500 million. Jihan has been successful in obtaining summary judgment, as well as securing dismissals for clients facing multi-million-dollar claims.
Additionally, Jihan has extensive experience representing other construction professional trades including grading, framing, window, roofing, sheet metal, waterproofing, stucco, pipeline, flooring, HVAC, electrical, and landscaping.
Jihan’s area of practice also includes veterinary professional liability defense, equine related litigation (trainer/breeder liability, professional negligence, contract disputes, liens, fraud, and administrative actions), and equine related transactions (equine leases, sales, boarding/training agreements, breeding transactions, syndication agreements, employment related issues, and facility use agreements).
The extensive projects Jihan has been involved in specifically include, but are not limited to:
