Damon R. Thomas

Damon Thomas is a fair but aggressive attorney that has more than 20 years of experience as a construction lawyer who counsels owners, developers, contractors, and design professionals in all phases of the construction and dispute resolution process. 

Damon is the leader of the Bowles Rice Construction Law team. His practice covers the full spectrum of construction law, including but not limited to project contracts, project planning, project design, and project management issues requiring mediation, arbitration, or litigation. Damon's experience includes common, yet complex construction litigation matters such as:

• Payment/Performance bonds
• Payment disputes
• Mechanic's liens
• Federal claims 
• Delays and defects
• Extra work
• Professional negligence
• Property damage (residential and commercial)

Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Damon works from the firm's Southpointe, Pennsylvania office. Over his career, Damon has counseled and litigated on behalf of clients on numerous disputes involving retaining wall defects, including large scale projects at schools, industrial sites, commercial sites, and facilities related to the energy industry.  Additionally, his construction experience includes representing clients involved in complex, multi-prime contractor projects. Damon also has developed extensive experience handling large residential construction disputes ranging from landslides to building defects.

In addition to his full-service construction law practice, Damon has experience with matters involving insurance defense and coverage, labor and employment, manufacturing, trucking, and commercial litigation. He has successfully prosecuted and defended cases in federal and state courts, as well as before alternative dispute resolution bodies.  Recently, Damon expanded his litigation practice to international tribunals where he litigated an extremely complex commercial dispute before the International Chamber of Commerce in Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Practice Group Leader, Construction Department

• Super Lawyers, Rising Star (2010-2016)
• Pennsylvania's Outstanding Young Lawyers (2012)

• Allegheny County Bar Association
• American Subcontractors Association of Western Pennsylvania
  • Member, Board of Directors
  • Chapter Attorney (2022-2024)
• Associated Builders and Contractors of Western Pennsylvania
• Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh
• Contractors Association of West Virginia
• Master Builders Association of Western Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh Airport Area Chamber of Commerce
• Society of American Military Engineers

• Treasurer of MAHS Boys Soccer Boosters