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Craig R. Mariger leads Jones Waldo’s Construction Law practice group. His practice is focused on representing participants in the construction industry with respect to construction planning, contracting, claim resolution and litigation. Craig is national construction counsel to a Fortune 500 company. He has represented owners, contractors and design professionals in many notable construction claims, including:

• The Olympic Speed Skating Oval, West Valley City, Utah (structural collapse)


• The Annapolis Mall, Annapolis, Maryland (structural collapse)


• The Snowbird Pavilion I, Salt Lake County, Utah (structural collapse)


• Fingerhut Distribution Center, Spanish Fork, Utah (structural collapse)


• Albertson’s Store, Santa Rosa, California (landsliding and expansive soils)


• The Cedar Hills Landslide (landsliding)


• Osco Drug Store, Des Moines, Iowa (expansion of clinically altered soils)


• University of Utah Olympic Village Housing Project (contractor default/surety claims)


• Acme Distribution Center, Denver, Pennsylvania (warehouse concrete floor slab joint failures)


• St. George Subaru-Mitsubishi, St. George, Utah (expansive soils and MSE retaining wall failures)


• Big Horn Condominiums, Pahrump, Nevada (foundation failures/hydro collapsible soils)


• Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah (delay claims, design claims and construction defect claims)


• Sterling Village Apartments (alleged design and construction deficiencies)


• Ogden City Mall Parking Structure, Ogden, Utah (alleged design and construction deficiencies)


• BYU Cougar Stadium, Provo, Utah (personal injury)


• Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah (delay claims)


• Smith-Morehouse Dam, Summit County, Utah (changed condition claim)


• Salt Lake International Airport, Salt Lake City, Utah (failure of external wall panels and concrete runway failures)


• Block 57 Parking Structure, Salt Lake City, Utah (cost allocations and overruns) and


• Salt Lake Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah (delay and inefficiency claims).

Craig has been an active advocate of alternative dispute resolution. He is often requested to arbitrate or mediate construction disputes due to his experience and knowledge of the design and construction industry and construction claims. He has participated in over a hundred mediations as an advocate or mediator. He has received an AV rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory, the highest rating given. He was also named one of Utah’s Legal Elite by Utah Business Magazine in 2006-2010 and listed in Super Lawyers 2007, 2008 and 2009. Craig was awarded the Professionalism Award by the Utah State Bar in 2009 for his professionalism and civility in the practice of law.

Craig joined Jones Waldo upon his graduation from law school. He was made a shareholder in 1982, and has served Jones Waldo’s Board of Directors, Compensation Committee and Ethics and Conflicts Committee. He currently acts as the Firm’s Loss Prevention and Claims Counsel.

Craig was born in Provo, Utah on January 7, 1952. His family moved to Seattle, Washington, where he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1974. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Scholastic Honorary Fraternity, and in 1974 was awarded the President’s Metal by the University of Washington for the best scholastic record of his graduating class. He received a Juris Doctorate with distinction from Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina in 1977. He was admitted to the Utah State Bar in 1977, and is currently admitted to practice before the Utah Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of Utah and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Craig is a member of the Utah State Bar Litigation and Construction Law Sections and the American Bar Association Forum Committee on the Construction Industry and Litigation Section. He served as a member of the Utah State Bar Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee from July, 1992 to June, 2007, and served as Chair of the Committee from July, 2004 to June, 2007. Craig was a Commissioner of the Salt Lake City Planning Commission from July, 1997 to June, 2001. He chaired the Construction Law Section of the Utah State Bar from July, 1996 to June, 1997. He served as a member of the Utah A.I.A. Legislation Task Force responsible for redrafting Utah’s construction statute of repose. He serves as Chair and Surveyor of the Subcommittee of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee for Civil Jury Instructions responsible for preparing jury instruction forms for claims of architectural and engineering negligence.