When I caught up with Mike Stenglein last week he had just wrapped up practicing a three-hour oral argument he’s about to deliver in the next couple of weeks in a high-stakes arbitration. Actually, it was just this half of a six-hour opening statement for his side.

Given the nature of Stengelin’s practice as the leader of the global construction and engineering disputes practice at King & Spalding, he had to be cagey about who his client is and what exactly the dispute is over. But I didn’t call Stenglein up to hear about his particular case. I had heard that he had some thoughts about all the disputes springing out of so-called giga projects in the infrastructure world, projects involving more than $10 billion. Project delays and suspensions caused by the pandemic, it seems, are creating even more work for folks like Stenglein in the already litigious world of giga projects. What follows has been edited for length and clarity.