Shlomo D. Katz Email and Phone Number

I represent clients in business disputes, often, but not always, relating to government contracts. I also counsel clients about teaming, protests, contract claims, compliance, subcontracting, small business and wage-hour issues.Representative matters:*Won dismissal of Lanham Act suit brought by incumbent contractor against bidder for defense contract.*Won summary judgment for a contractor sued in federal court for alleged copyright infringement, persuading the court that the Government, not the contractor, was the proper defendant.*Developed litigation strategy and conducted discovery & motion practice in both U.S. Court of Federal Claims & Civilian Board of Contract Appeals leading to multi-million dollar settlement of about 30 changes claims under a Government contract.*Led the Federal Circuit to reverse the ASBCA & grant summary judgment to the contractor on its Service Contract Act price adjustment claim.*Successfully opposed bid protest against multi-million dollar contract award to client, even though awarding agency agreed with protestor that evaluation was flawed.*Persuaded the Federal Circuit to void contractor's release of its claims.*Defended a major subway system against a $47 million claim by one of its construction contractors.*Represented contractor in successfully protesting award of sole-source contract to competitor.*Won partial summary judgment and negotiated favorable settlement for subcontractor in dispute under DOE subcontract.*Successfully represented contractor in persuading the ASBCA to vacate its denial of client’s $21 million claim & to schedule the claim for a new hearing, ultimately leading to multi-million judgment for the client.*Conducted numerous wage-hour audits to help clients stay or become compliant with the FLSA & SCA.Specialties: Some state bars consider it unethical for lawyers to call themselves specialists, but I hope the information above will give you a pretty good idea of the areas I practice in.