Mana Elihu Lombardo is a counsel in Crowell & Moring's Government Contracts Group in Los Angeles. She concentrates her practice primarily on government contracts litigation. She also handles a wide range of complex civil and commercial litigation matters including labor and employment issues, contract disputes, business torts, and environmental litigation. Mana practices before federal and state trial courts, and has extensive experience developing and implementing litigation strategy as well as managing the process of large litigation matters. She has worked closely with clients to guide them through mediation and settlement proceedings.

Mana's government contracts practice includes all aspects of government contracts litigation. Mana has extensive experience conducting internal investigations and defending companies against False Claims Act allegations. She has counseled clients on claims relating to fraud, false testing, data rights issues, contract compliance, quality assurance standards, failure to disclose, and wrongful termination in federal False Claims Act cases. Mana also works closely with clients, including those in the defense industry, to litigate general business matters, including issues involving contract claims, unfair business practices, and employers' liability. For example, Mana was the lead associate on the legal team that obtained a summary judgment verdict for a defense industry client in an interference with contract action involving procurement of military vehicle components for a foreign government.

Mana has presented and conducted in-person training seminars on a variety of government contracting and employment law topics including federal contractor labor law, procurement fraud, government investigations, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, disability accommodation, and wage and hour issues. In addition, she has extensive experience advising large corporate clients on electronic discovery matters and the scope of the duty to preserve documents pending litigation.

Mana graduated from the UCLA School of Law, where she was an Editor of the UCLA Law Review. Mana earned her undergraduate degree, with honors, in Political Economy from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received both the Alumni Leadership Scholarship and the Robert Byrd Scholarship for four consecutive years.