Lea Broka

Lea Broka serves as a Director in Stout’s Disputes, Claims, and Investigations group, with over 15 years of expertise in financial contract compliance and dispute resolution services, particularly in long-term contracting and capital asset engineering and construction projects.

She provides proactive cost advisory services throughout the entire lifecycle of construction projects, starting with setting contract language and establishing policies to capture and provide necessary requirements under the contract terms. As construction progresses, her services include financial contract compliance, through construction cost audits, payment application reviews, and change order assessment, ensuring that construction costs and markups billed and paid are supported by accounting documentation and adhere to contract terms. She also verifies compliance with other contractual stipulations, such as lien waivers and insurance requirements.

Additionally, Ms. Broka offers dispute resolution services, specializing in quantifying and rebutting commercial damages from contract breaches and construction-related issues, including terminations, delays, disruptions, accelerations, scope changes, differing site conditions, and cost overruns. She reviews and analyzes job costs and relevant project documentation to substantiate and quantify damage claim components, ensuring they align with contract terms and are validated, verifiable, and viable.

Before joining Stout, Ms. Broka was a Manager at Fenix Financial Forensics LLC (F3), where she began her career as an entry-level Consultant in March 2009 after relocating to Arizona following graduate school.