Government Contracts Training - GC 101 and OOPS
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 08.12.20
The Government Contracts Group is pleased to announce that our GC 101 and OOPS conferences have been scheduled for 2020. GC 101 will be held September 21-25, 2020 and OOPS will be held October 19-22, 2020. Both will take place virtually over the course of several days. The format will be different, but our practitioners will still provide the same high quality information. Registration information, including agendas, can be found here for GC 101 and here for OOPS. We hope you will join the Crowell team for these special events!
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