Steven M. Charney

Mr. Charney is one of the presenters for Workshop W2, “What Every Contractor Must Know about the False Claims Act,” on Wednesday morning. He has taken an active role in addressing emerging issues affecting the construction and development industries, both in providing guidance to the industry at large and in counseling clients of the firm. Mr. Charney led the Associated General Contractors of America to establish a task force to study mold-related issues, and then vice-chaired that task force as it drafted the industry's first guide to understanding the problem. Mr. Charney has also taken a lead role in guiding contractors in understanding and addressing other emerging issues affecting the industry. He lectures frequently on such issues, including subcontractor default insurance and evolving legislation.

Mr. Charney's industry experience includes positions with both local and national construction contractors. Before joining Peckar & Abramson, Mr. Charney served as Eastern Division Counsel for Turner Construction Company. Mr. Charney was employed by Turner Construction Company for nearly a decade, prior to entering private legal practice, and served in a number of operations-related roles, including field superintendent, cost and scheduling engineer, and manager of litigation and claims, before serving as counsel.

Mr. Charney lectures nationally regarding matters related to construction contracting and frequently presents private lectures and training to the nation's leading contractors. He presented a three-part seminar before the prestigious Association of the Bar of the City of New York titled "Truly Understanding Construction Contracts" and is a frequent lecturer before the General Building Contractors of the State of New York, The Construction Financial Managers Association, the New Jersey Building Contractors Association, and other construction-related organizations. Mr. Charney has also lectured before the American Concrete Institute, the South Florida Chapter of the Associated General Contractors, Associated Minority Enterprises of New York.

Mr. Charney is a graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law, where he attended as an evening student while working full time in the construction industry. In 1983, Mr. Charney received a master of science degree in construction management from the School of Civil Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (where he also studied as an evening student while working full time in the construction industry). Mr. Charney also holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Syracuse University, with a minor in construction technologies.