Husch Blackwell had also previously represented Burns & McDonnell in other matters. In fact, the arbitration panel said, Husch Blackwell continued to maintain contract with Edgemoor throughout 2016 and into 2017. But Renner and Husch Blackwell said their representation of the engineering firm had ended in 2016. Renner’s work for Edgemoor was disclosed when he asked the city to hire him. Instead, in May 2017, the engineering contract went to a firm that Renner had represented on a different project the prior year, Edgemoor Infrastructure and Real Estate. The panel found that Renner used his position to undermine the engineering firm’s bid and recommend it be disqualified from the process, according to the Star’s account. Husch Blackwell was one of two law firms hired by the city. The arbitration panel found that Husch Blackwell attorney Charles Renner was hired to provide legal advice to the city on the process after Burns & McDonnell spurned the lawyer’s offer to represent the engineering firm. The panel decision obtained by the Star was issued in October. Above the Law and Bloomberg Law noted the story.
An arbitration panel has ordered Husch Blackwell to pay $62 million to an engineering firm in Kansas City, Missouri, that claimed it lost a contract to build the city’s new airport because of attorney ethical misconduct.Īccording to the report by the Kansas City Star, the $62 million awarded to engineering firm Burns & McDonnell represents the money it would have made if it won the airport contract.
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