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Government Contracts

The Firm's government contracts practice includes the representation of construction companies, suppliers, service contractors, and sureties in disputes arising out of contracts with local, state, or federal government agencies. These cases require knowledge of the special procedures and legal principles applicable to government contracts which combine elements of administrative law procedure with contract law. SCH attorneys advise our clients on government contracting issues such as:

The firm's lawyers assist our government contractor clients with wage-hour and labor matters under federal laws such as the Davis-Bacon Act and the Service Contract Act. Combining our departments' individual expertise gives the Firm's clients timely assistance with any government contract problem, whether it initially appears to be a "contract" problem or a "labor problem."

Over the past four decades, our contemporaries in the legal profession have acknowledged the Firm's extensive experience in this area of the law by electing several SCH attorneys to offices in the Public Contract Law Section of the American Bar Association. In that period, two members of the Firm have been elected and served as Chair of that Section.

Articles

• Cutting the Knot on Concurrent Delay
  February 2008, Construction Briefings, Thomson West
• Smith Currie Opens Washington, DC Office
  Winter 2008, Common Sense Contracting, Volume 21, Number 4