Carol A. Sigmond

Carol Sigmond focuses her practice on construction and real estate industry matters, including arbitration, appeals, bid protests, contract preparation, mediation, litigation, receivership and suretyship. She represents clients in construction defect litigation relating to issues that arise when adjacent owners develop their properties, as well as expediting a builder’s construction project by ensuring that the proper contracts are in place.

Carol litigates construction disputes for public works and buildings in both the public and private sectors. She also has extensive knowledge of preparing contract documents, including design build, construction management, guaranteed maximum price and fixed-price contracts. Additionally, Carol is an experienced mediator and arbitrator handling construction or real estate cases for the New York County Supreme Court Commercial Division Roster of Volunteer Mediators and the American Arbitration Association’s Roster of Construction Industry Arbitrators.

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Community & Professional

New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA), Member, 2007 – Present

New York City Citizens Crime Commission Lawyers Council, Member

New York State Bar Association, Former Vice President

New York County Lawyers Association, Former President

Honors & Recognitions

Selected to the New York Super Lawyers List, Construction Litigation, 2018–2024

Recipient, Boris Kostelanetz President’s Medal, New York County Lawyers Association, 2024

Listee, Who’s Who in America, Marquis, starting in 2010

Crain’s New York Business, “Notable Women in Law”, 2022

Awarded, Real Estate Section for Professionalism, New York State Bar Association, 2020

Awarded, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2019