Natasha A. Kader

Professional Overview

Natasha Kader represents owners, general contractors, and subcontractors on both public and private construction projects. She has extensive experience handling complex matters through all phases of litigation, including pre-litigation resolution, case evaluation and strategy, law and motion practice, discovery and depositions, mediations, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation. Natasha has worked on a variety of construction matters, including projects involving public universities, multi-use high-rises, public parks, and multimillion dollar residential homes, and she has represented clients in both state and federal courts.

Natasha began her legal career in construction litigation and then moved to general civil litigation, where she handled the defense of toxic torts, wrongful death, products liability, commercial trucking litigation, construction workplace accidents, premises liability, and breach of contract claims. That breadth of experience gives her a strong foundation for the construction matters she handles today.

While in law school, Natasha externed at the Federal Public Defender’s Office and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office as a certified law clerk.

Representative Matters

• Obtained a $4.25 million settlement on behalf of an electrical subcontractor against a school district that had fundamentally changed the project plans and caused substantial delays.
• Settled contract and construction defect claims on behalf of homeowners against general contractors.
• Obtained a $5.5 million settlement for a general contractor against a subcontractor and its surety for breach of contract and breach of performance bonds on three separate projects.
• Eliminated more than $1.5 million in consequential damages through targeted law and motion practice regarding the conscionability of a bargained-for contract provision, sought by a subcontractor against a general contractor for the contractor’s alleged breach of contract.