Areas of Experience

Construction, Surety, Government Contracts, General Commercial Matters, Real Estate, Professional Liability, Employment, and Family Law.

Professional Experience

• Former Of Counsel, McManus & Felsen, LLP, Washington, DC.

• Former Partner, Duane Morris LLP, Washington, DC.

• Mediation Panelist, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

• Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Affiliations

• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (2000).

• Past Chair, American Bar Association, Forum on Construction, Division 7.

• Past President, U.S. Attorneys Association for the District of Columbia.

• Founder and Team Leader, Georgetown/NITA Basic Trial Advocacy Program (1978-2003) and Current Co-Director, NITA Advanced Trial Advocacy Program, Washington, DC.

• Former Adjunct Professor of Construction Law and Criminal Trial Practice Law at Georgetown Law Center, 1980-2000 (Recipient, Paul R. Dean Award, Georgetown Law Center, for service to Georgetown).

• Selected as “Legal Elite” in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Virginia Business, 2022.

• Listed 2009- present, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in its listing of leading construction lawyers in the District of Columbia.

• Listed,  Super Lawyers Magazine, Construction Litigation in Virginia and District of Columbia editions; Corporate Counsel edition

• Listed, Best Lawyers in America and Martindale & Hubbell, AV rated.

• Admissions: District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.
• St. Peter’s College, B.A.