Ms. Butkera represented a specialized heavy timber construction company (“Company”) in an AAA Arbitration claim brought against it by a client who hired the Company to stabilize a partially-collapsed historic barn built in the 1850s. The client intended on stabilizing the barn so its historically-valuable elements could be safely preserved and repurposed into a new farm-style home. After the Company began work on the barn, disagreements between the parties arose regarding their $90k contract, including the scope of agreed-upon work, the engineering and methods to be utilized during the work, and payment terms. The client fired the Company before it completed work on the barn and, after sending unsuccessful demands for reimbursement and loss of value, filed a claim for arbitration alleging the Company breached the contract, attempted to modify the contract, and damaged historically-valuable elements of the barn rendering them useless. Ms. Butkera vigorously defended the Company arguing in response that it was the client who breached numerous contract terms and sabotaged the Company’s ability to complete work on the barn in conformance with the contract. After a two-day hearing, the Arbitrator issued a 10-page decision detailing the chronology of events between the parties,  describing the intricacy of the work performed, ultimately absolving the Company of any wrongdoing and awarding the client nothing.