About Clay RYALS

Mr. Ryals is a Principal with SOCOTEC’s Advisory Group. He has over forty years of project management and dispute resolution experience relative to a wide range of large-scale engineering and construction projects, including: power generation, petrochemical, highway, shipbuilding, commercial, mixed-use, and multi-family residential. In addition, Mr. Ryals provides dispute resolution and advisory services in the aerospace, defense, government contracting, and information technology sectors.​

Mr. Ryals’ experience includes the preparation and analysis of delay, acceleration, disruption, and loss of productivity claims.   He has provided expert testimony in Federal and State courts, State and County Boards, Dispute Review Boards, and numerous private and AAA arbitrations on such subjects as CPM schedule analysis, delay and impact analysis, labor productivity, contract administration, project management, and quantification of damages.  ​

His ability to simplify and effectively communicate complex issues has proven invaluable to legal counsel for major owners, contractors, engineers, designers, and sureties around the world.  Long-term clients routinely rely on Mr. Ryals to assist with the negotiation and settlement of complex disputes prior to litigation.