From where the Litigation Daily sits, all the federal money being funneled into manufacturing in the United States looks like economic and infrastructure development. Spending on construction in the manufacturing space, after all, was up 70.8% year-over-year in July to more than $200 billion, according to recent U.S. Census Bureau data. 

But Cheri Gatlin, a veteran construction litigator at Second Hundred law firm Burr & Forman who is based in Jackson, Mississippi, looks at that influx of federal dollars and sees something different: potential conflicts pointing in every direction, between project owners and contractors, and between contractors and their subcontractors.