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Washington – January 4, 2021: Crowell & Moring elected nine lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2021. The firm also promoted 18 associates to the position of counsel. The new partners have been promoted from within the ranks of the firm’s Washington, Los Angeles, and New York offices and from across several practice groups, including Advertising & Media, Environment & Natural Resources, Litigation, International Trade, Antitrust & Competition, Government Contracts, and Intellectual Property.

Washington – February 22, 2019: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that its Government Contracts Group has been recognized as one of Law360’s “Practice Groups of the Year” for government contracts. This is the ninth consecutive year that the group has earned this honor.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in Avue Technologies Corp. v. Department of Health and Human Services that an appellant’s non-frivolous allegation of a contract with the government via an end-user license agreement (EULA) incorporated into another contractor’s Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) agreement was sufficient to establish jurisdiction under the Contract Disputes Act (CDA).

In Aviation Training Consulting, LLC, ASBCA No. 63634 (Jan. 11, 2024), the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) confirmed that a contractor’s properly asserted claim for relief under Section 3610 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is a claim under the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) and denied the Air Force’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.

On December 19, 2023, the United States District Court for the District of Utah denied summary judgment in part to Vanderlande Industries (Vanderlande), holding that a reasonable jury could find that Vanderlande negligently misrepresented the viability of subcontractor Ludvik Electric Co.’s (Ludvik) pass-through claims during the parties’ settlement negotiations over the claims. 

Crowell & Moring is pleased to announce the launch of our Government Contracts Breakfast Series. All of the sessions will be held in Northern Virginia and focus on issues most important to government contractors. Our September session is described below. 

Crowell & Moring is pleased to announce the launch of our Government Contracts Breakfast Series. All of the sessions will be held in Northern Virginia and focus on issues most important to government contractors. Our January session is described below. When performing government contracts, contractors frequently experience performance challenges such as delays; increased performance costs attributable to government action; costs resulting from government-initiated contract termination; and costs of remediating certain environmental pollution and toxic tort litigation. Each of these add time or additional expense for which the government may have a legal obligation to pay. Join us as we discuss the process of filings claims and REAs, including a discussion of formal and informal dispute resolution under government contracts. We will provide a CLE certificate of attendance and other materials to use in seeking continuing education credits. Registration begins at 8:00 am.

The Coronavirus pandemic continues to cause disruptions across nearly all industrial sectors, including the government contracting industry. As contractors attempt to respond to challenges in providing support to government customers, meeting contract and staffing requirements, and adhering to contract terms and a constantly shifting landscape, Congress has provided an additional avenue of relief to certain contractors dealing with COVID-19 related impacts. On March 27, Congress passed the COVID-19 Stimulus Law. Section 3610 of the legislation provides assistance in connection with contractor employees that (1) cannot perform work on certain sites during the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) cannot telework because their job duties cannot be performed remotely.

This hour-long webinar will cover up to the minute updates about the evolving areas of government contracts compliance, transactions trends and tripwires, False Claims Act developments, and current trends in small business investigation and enforcement. This update is designed to help government contracts professionals comply, and thrive in 2018 and beyond. 

Crowell & Moring routinely helps clients identify and pursue Contract Disputes Act claims and Requests for Equitable Adjustment when the government changes, delays, or otherwise impedes their performance on important contract work. In this webinar, a team of claims professional from C&M’s Government Contractor Recovery Practice will answer some “Frequently Asked Questions” that arise in the context of contractor claims / REAs, and solicit audience questions, as we delve into some of the procedural, substantive, and business considerations that go into the decision to assert a claim or an REA.

In this episode, host Nicole Owren-Wiest talks with Elizabeth Buehler, Charles Baek, Michael Gruden, and Catherine Shames about DCAA’s incurred cost audit backlog and its IPA initiative. “It All Adds Up” is Crowell & Moring’s podcast covering the latest government contract accounting, cost, and pricing developments.