Nax Joye is Board Certified in Construction Law by The Florida Bar, and he has been a part of the Moye, O’Brien & Masterson, LLP team since 2018. With a perspective formed from over a decade in commercial construction, his practice is primarily dedicated to the representation of contractors and design-build teams on complex projects, including numerous mega-projects, throughout the United States and internationally, spanning all segments and aspects of the construction industry (heavy civil, roadway, rail, vertical, commercial, etc.). 

Nax’s recent work includes representing the design builder on a $1.2 billion interstate project in Colorado for the development, pursuit, and successful resolution of approximately $115 million of claims against the project owner and over $200 million in E&O and disruption claims against the designer. Nax is also involved in representing the design-builder in the pursuit of an E&O and disruption claim in excess of $300 million against a designer on a light-rail public-private partnership mega project in Ontario, Canada; representing the design-builder in developing, pursuing, and litigating more than $100 million of claims against the project’s designer on a $1.3 billion light-rail project in Los Angeles, California; representing the prime contractor to evaluate, develop, and pursue claims for hundreds of millions of dollars in extra work, design defects and delay against the project’s owner on a light rail construction mega project in Seattle, Washington; and representing the design-build contractor on a $1.5 billion dollar transit project in Washington State, to evaluate, develop, pursue, and resolve an E&O Claims in excess of $30 million against the designer.

• University of Florida Levin College of Law, Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude, 2018
• Book Awards in Complex Litigation; Appellate Advocacy; Electronic Discovery; Criminal Procedure; Law & Entrepreneurship; and Florida Condominium Law
• Global Antitrust Institute International Moot Court Competition, Best Team Brief
• President of the Student Bar Association
• Dean’s Leadership Award, Spring 2018
• Teaching Assistant, Legal Writing and Appellate Advocacy
• Florida Blue Key Leadership Honors Society
• Order of the Coif Honor Society
• University of Florida Warrington College of Business, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, 2012

• The Florida Bar
• Board Certified in Construction Law by The Florida Bar
• Florida 4-H Foundation, Board of Directors, and Vice President of Finance Committee
• Associates to Watch by Chambers and Partners, 2025

• Hansell M. Pasco III & Sean M. Dillon, CONSTRUCTION DISPUTES: REPRESENTING THE CONTRACTOR § 18 (Michael T. Callahan, et al. eds., 4th ed., 2019) (significant contributions to the chapter Pricing Damages)
• N. Joye and C. Tribbey, Unbundling Rights: An Overview of TDR, 88 THE BRIEFS 7 August 2020