Craig primarily represents participants in the construction industry with respect to planning, contracting, claim resolution, alternative dispute resolution, and litigation. Craig also serves as a mediator and arbitrator. Craig is Claims Counsel for his law firm and has expertise in matters of lawyer responsibilities and ethics.
Career
Craig R. Mariger leads Jones Waldo’s Construction Law Practice Group. His practice is focused on representing participants in the construction industry with respect to construction planning, contracting, claim resolution and litigation.
Craig has been an active advocate of alternative dispute resolution. He is often requested to arbitrate or mediate construction disputes due to his experience and knowledge of the design and construction industry and construction claims. He has participated in over a two hundred mediations as an advocate or mediator. He has held an AV rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory, the highest rating given, since 1990. Craig was awarded the Professionalism Award by the Utah State Bar in 2009 for his professionalism and civility in the practice of law. In 2018, Craig received the Tim D. Dunn Lifetime Achievement Award at the Salt Lake City Construction Defect and Design Conference. Craig has been listed each year since 2011 in The Best Lawyers in America Legal Directory for Construction Law. He has also been named one of Utah’s Legal Elite by Utah Business Magazine each year since 2006 and as a Super Lawyer in Construction Law by Mountain States Super Lawyer Magazine each year since 2007. Craig was named Best Layer of the Year by Best Lawyers in 2014.
Craig was born in Provo, Utah on January 7, 1952. His family moved to Seattle, Washington, where he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1974. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Scholastic Honorary Fraternity, and in 1974 was awarded the President’s Metal by the University of Washington for the best scholastic record of his graduating class. He received a Juris Doctorate with distinction from Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina in 1977. He was admitted to the Utah State Bar in 1977, and is currently admitted to practice before the Utah Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of Utah and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Awards
•Best Lawyers, Lawyer of the Year, Construction Law, 2013, 2015
•Best Lawyers, Lawyer of the Year, Litigation-Construction, 2014
•Best Lawyers, Construction Law, 2011-2018
•Professionalism Award, Utah State Bar, 2009
•Super Lawyers, 2007-2018
•Utah Business Magazine, Legal Elite, 2006-2018
•President’s Metal, University of Washington, 1974
