Djenita graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 2012 with a Bachelor’s in Philosophy and Pre-Law and a Minor in Spanish. In 2015, she obtained her law degree from the University of Illinois Chicago. Following graduation, she served as In-House Counsel and Assistant Vice President for Fidelity National Financial Inc., a Fortune 300 company and the country’s largest title insurance company where she provided legal support for title curative matters by way of claims resolution, litigation management, and foreclosure assistance for insured homeowners and sophisticated lenders alike. Following her time at Fidelity, Djenita worked as Corporate Counsel for Hensel Phelps Construction Co., one of the nation’s largest general contractors and construction managers, where she was one of five corporate attorneys assisting with every day legal compliance for a multi-billion dollar corporation. While at Hensel Phelps, Djenita assisted with the review and negotiation of multi-million dollar prime contracts with owners using various methods of project delivery, pre-litigation disputes including mechanic’s lien and payment bond claims, management of outside counsel on various matters, and overall assistance with federal audit compliance in relation to Davis Bacon Act claims and Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
Djenita is passionate about community involvement and serves on the boards of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Weld County, the Young Professionals Advisory Board of WorldDenver, and the Bosnian American Genocide Institute and Education Center. She is also a member of the Future Leaders Forum for the Associated General Contractors of Colorado and enjoys meeting, and learning from, her peers in the construction industry.
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Lead Attorney: Henry Bangert
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: BBG represents a General Contractor in connection with payment dispute claims involving the $500M expansion to the Owner’s rail production facility located in Pueblo, Colorado, with $85 million at issue.
Lead Attorney: Rahul Ranade
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General contractor
Details: Grand Teton Drive Overpass
Lead Attorney: Buck Beltzer
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: BBG has prosecuted and/or defended 5 separate disputes for a General Contractor which involve a complicated series of interrelated disputes and lawsuits totaling $480 Million at issue and simultaneously proceeding in Colorado federal court, Colorado state court, private arbitration, and other forums. These matters involve disputes with parties which had a significant role in the development and construction of a project which involved the widening and improvement of approximately 12.5 miles of highway in Denver, CO.
Lead Attorney: Bret Gunnell
Practice Area: Water Infrastructure, Heavy Civil
Client Type: Owner
Details: Represented owner against general contractor in $7 million of construction defect claims over construction of $20 million water distribution pipeline.
Lead Attorney: Stephen Wichern
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General contractor
Details: Designed structural components for public transportation projects, including vehicular and railway bridges, retaining walls, box culverts, and foundations. Awarded Quality Performance Awards for bridge structure design on “T-REX,” CDOT’s $1.6 billion multi-modal design-build project in Denver. Coordinated efforts of utility, roadway, and retaining wall designers; assisted, directed and managed technicians in preparation of design plans
Lead Attorney: Henry Bangert
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: Contractor
Details: Lead counsel representing contractor in contract review and pursuit of $250 Million design-build bridge project.
Lead Attorney: Bret Gunnell
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: Owner
Details: Represented Owner against CM/GC in $50 million of extra work/delay claims over construction of $280 million tristate telecommunications fiber network.
Lead Attorney: Stephen Wichern
Practice Area: Airport
Details: Review, revise and negotiate proposed form of Construction Agreement for airport expansion and facilities project in Alaska. Contract value in excess of $50M.
Lead Attorney: Rahul Ranade
Practice Area: Airport
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: Airport construction
Lead Attorney: Djenita Svinjar
Practice Area: Airport, Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: Assisted with negotiation of $2B airport construction contract, spearheaded OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance) branch of DoL audit of 40 construction jobs for compliance with labor requirements (minority, disabled, percent of contractors, etc.) plus mandatory disclosures required by federal law.
Lead Attorney: Bret Gunnell
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: Girder Supplier
Details: Prevailed in bench trial, recovering $2 million in damages and attorneys’ fees, on behalf of girder supplier in disputed termination of a $7 million subcontract on a Utah highway construction project, which judgment was affirmed on appeal by the Utah Supreme Court in a published opinion (210 P.3d 263).
Lead Attorney: Djenita Svinjar
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: Involved in quantifying, recording mechanic’s lien, helping out where needed
Lead Attorney: Rahul Ranade
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General contractor
Details: Telecommunications
Lead Attorney: Bret Gunnell
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: Represented general contractor against owner in $27 million of extra work/delay claims over construction of $193 million buried highway tunnel.
Lead Attorney: Bret Gunnell
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: Represented general contractor against owner and subcontractor in $7 million of extra work, delay and defective construction claims over construction of $10 million highway bridge.
Lead Attorney: Buck Beltzer
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: BBG is Project Counsel for a General Contractor on the largest civil works project in the history of the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area, with $350 Million at issue. As Project Counsel, BBG assists with everyday legal issues that arise on projects of this magnitude, including civil rights; employment and labor; and various subcontractor, owner, designer and third-party contractual and performance issues.
Lead Attorney: Bret Gunnell
Practice Area: Industrial, Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: construction of a rail service center as part of expansion of palmer rail production site, rep GC, sued for wrongful termination (default), we filed mechanics lien for $75M and contract claim is $100M
Lead Attorney: Rahul Ranade
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General contractor
Details: Fiber optic network
Lead Attorney: Bret Gunnell
Practice Area: Heavy Civil or industrial
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: We settled in mediation for 200 million
Lead Attorney: Djenita Svinjar
Practice Area: Airport, Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: Assisted with negotiation of $2B airport construction contract, spearheaded OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance) branch of DoL audit of 40 construction jobs for compliance with labor requirements (minority, disabled, percent of contractors, etc.) plus mandatory disclosures required by federal law.
Lead Attorney: Bret Gunnell
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: Going to trial then settled. Landslide destroyed the store. 4.2 million
Lead Attorney: Bret Gunnell
Practice Area: Heavy Civil, Water Infrastructure
Client Type: Marine Contractor
Details: Obtained defense verdict on $27 million in claims brought by EPC contractor, and recovered $5 million in extra work, changed conditions and attorneys’ fees claims on behalf of marine contractor, on Mexico power plant project involving construction of a $22 million underwater pipeline.
Lead Attorney: Buck Beltzer
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General Contractor
Details: BBG represents a General Contractor in ongoing litigation arising out of the design and construction of a project which involved widening and improving approximately 12.5 miles of public highway in the southern Denver metro area with $260 Million at issue.
Lead Attorney: Rahul Ranade
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: General contractor
Details: Transmission
Lead Attorney: Henry Bangert
Practice Area: Heavy Civil
Client Type: Design-Build Contractor
Details: Lead counsel representing a contractor member of design-build team in pursuing $1.2 Billion rail project.
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