Jack Rephan

Jack Rephan is a shareholder in the Virginia Beach law firm of Pender & Coward, P.C. in Virginia Beach. His legal career has covered a broad range of areas of the law although his current practice is primarily devoted to construction law, government contract law, and alternate dispute resolution. He has represented contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and owners in a host of construction disputes on federal, state, and local construction projects. Mr. Rephan regularly represents parties to construction disputes in arbitration and mediation. He also is an arbitrator and mediator on the construction law panel of the National Panel of Neutrals of the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Rephan has been a lecturer on construction law subjects in seminars sponsored by the Construction and Public Contract Law Section, the Virginia State Bar, the Forum on Construction Law of the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Architects, Associated Builders and Contractors, The Associated General Contractors of Virginia, and other organizations. He is also the author of the chapter on differing site conditions in the Virginia Construction Law Deskbook and the chapter on the same subject in Construction Subcontracting, published by the American Bar Association’s Forum on Construction Law. Mr. Rephan has served two terms as the chair and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Construction and Public Contract Law Section of the Virginia State Bar. He has been named by Virginia Business Magazine as one of the best lawyers in Virginia in the fields of construction law and alternate dispute resolution. Mr. Rephan received a Juris Doctor degree in 1959 from the University of Virginia Law School.