Brenda Radmacher is a sought-after construction attorney with three decades of experience handling construction disputes and transactions. Brenda is a Partner with Seyfarth Shaw, LLP’s Construction Practice Group based in the firm’s downtown Los Angeles office. Brenda is also a mediator and arbitrator serving on the American Arbitration Association’s panels.
Her practice focuses on risk management, dispute resolution, and advice and counsel for developers, owners, builders, and design professionals to find creative solutions to the challenges in the built environment. Brenda has been recognized as a leader in the legal field and the construction industry where she has been an authority on issues including delay and disruption claims, payment disputes, construction defects, indemnity and risk transfer, impacts of technology use in the construction industry, and negotiation and litigation strategies. She also has experience in developing creative solutions for complex disputes including building collapses, water-intrusion and building envelope problems, civil and highway construction, and multi-family developments. Brenda deploys her litigation background to draft stronger contracts and to assist in negotiation of deals for her clients in both the private and public arenas. Brenda brings a broad spectrum of perspectives to her clients’ needs from her experience working on construction projects across the United States as well as internationally.
Brenda has been recognized by her peers and clients and is the recipient of multiple awards, including being recognized as “Lawyer of the Year – Construction (Los Angeles)” by Best Lawyers of America® for 2025-2026, a 2023 Leader of Influence by the Los Angeles Business Journal) in 2023, and awarded as an Industry Veteran by ConstructionDive in 2021, among other recognitions. She has handled some of the largest and most complex construction disputes including being lead construction counsel on the Champlain South Tower Collapse matter in Florida where she was instrumental in negotiating the largest settlement in a construction case in the United States. Through years of handling complex construction disputes and contract negotiations, she developed a sophisticated understanding of construction law, which she applies as a lawyer and as an experienced mediator and arbitrator.