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THE attorney for the U.S. Congress on real estate, construction contracts, environmental matters, and most Legislative Branch procurements, for over a decade. Government Contracts – THE Attorney for the Architect and to Congress on the major Capitol Hill contracts, and in litigation arising from those procurements, totaling about $1/4+ billion/year.Construction Contracts - THE U.S. Capitol’s Construction Attorney for Capitol Visitor Center ($ 2/3 billion; 570K sq.ft), Supreme Court renovation, the Congressional Data Center, Library of Congress Packard Campus, Senate Mail Inspection Facility, Senate Warehouse, Library of Congress Book Storage Facility in Fort Meade, etc.. Attorney for billions in Capitol construction contracts. Real Estate – THE U.S. Capitol’s real estate attorney. Attorney for the Capitol Police Vehicle Inspection Facility, the Capitol Police Lease Expansion, the Capitol Police Vehicle Repair Facility, and the Capitol Police Training Facility at Cheltenham, MD. Added over 2 million square feet of building-space to U.S. Capitol, during critical period. Doubled the U.S. Capitol Grounds in land area. Essentially, was THE (non-political) real estate attorney for the AOC, the Senate, the House, the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office, for over a decade.Environmental Law - THE environmental compliance attorney for Capitol Power Plant (Clean Air Act) and for the Library of Congress book-storage site at Fort Meade (CERCLA [Superfund land-pollution] issues. Litigation – THE attorney who managed or self-handled millions of dollars of contract claims against the Architect of the Capitol. Administrative Law – Advised the Architect of the Capitol on entirety of administrative and appropriations law for over a decade.In short, under the AOC General Counsel, was THE attorney for the U.S. Capitol’s non-legislative business-law issues, for over a decade.

Hired to professionalize GSA’s massive leasing program in the DC metro area, which had beenplagued with expensive lease-holdovers and attorneys not familiar with normal commercialcontract law.Real Estate and Construction Contracts Senior Attorney for about 64 million square feet of federal office space in D.C. area during period of high activity and visibility. Attorney for $30 billion (+/- $5 billion) in federal contract deals over 11 years. GSA real estate attorney in dealings with almost all federal agencies in the DC Metro area, at one time or another.Government Contracts and Litigation – Represented GSA in the panoply of million-dollar administrative contract disputes and bid-protests, before the GAO and the Board of Contract Appeals.Environmental Law – Senior environmental attorney for 1/3 of governmental real estate in DC Metro area. Clean Air Act attorney for the two DC GSA power plants for a decade (NSR/PSD/NESHAP/MACT), relating to Federal Facilities Compliance Agreement and emissions. Clean Water Act remediation attorney for GSA’s CERCLA land next to Fort McNair. Eminent Domain – THE eminent domain attorney for all of GSA’s metro area land and leasehold condemnations for over ten years. Initiatives – Motivated GSA to update its real estate contracts to normal commercial standards, including adding the following clauses to GSA contracts: “entirety,” “merger,” “no oral waivers,” “actions surviving default,” “execution counterparts,” “events of default,” “representations and warranties,” and “remedies for default.” Awards: Runner up for Regional GSA Administrator Award for the Advanced Acquisition Program (combining multiple GSA real estate lease-procurements and customer-agency meetings into one broader one, thereby much lessening the number of separate procurement actions).Highest %-Salary-Aggregate-Year Cash Performance Awards at GSA nationwide for pay grade: 7% of annual pay as awards ($5,205 at the time for1997).

Tax/Finance: Designed and implemented state of art financial and tax blueprints for wealthy business owners with net worth in excess of $1 million.Management: Hired, trained and supervised thirteen Consultant Associates, an MBA and an CPA.Marketing: Marketed financial services and products for nationwide, 30 office-corporation doing comprehensive, integrated financial and tax consulting.Licenses – Securities (Series 7) and insurance licenses in DC, MD and VA

Corporate officer of publicly-traded corporation at age 32.Leases/Financings Drafted, negotiated, closed and documented equipment-leasing sale-leaseback transactions at average rate of $5M/mo. and $500K/deal. Issued opinions of counsel (10/mo.) for a top five national equipment leasing firm.Litigation Managed public company's litigation using national law firms, spending $15 thousand/month on 90 active cases. Strategized precedential suits with securities, tax and contract issues during critical period.Tax/Securities Implemented and justified sale/leaseback, tax shelter "wrap" transactions affected by issues of true/operating/finance/capital leases for limited partnerships and trusts. Prepared corporate S.E.C. filings.

Financial Contracts: Drafted U.S. guaranteed, multi million dollar ship financing contract packages for D.C.'s then-leading maritime law firm.Corporate/Administrative Law: Represented corporations in proceedings before various U.S. administrative agencies.

Antitrust Litigation: Attorney at one of Washington's ten largest law firms in large, treble damage suits, mostly defending Shell Oil Company. Prepared litigation pleadings and did legal research on issues of restraint of trade, unfair trade practices, monopolization and trademarks.

Market Regulation DivisionSpecial Study of the Options MarketsDrafted documents for regulations on bond-commission disclosure.Sole paid law-school paralegal for the SEC, at that time.

Antitrust DivisionJudgment Section: Created computer program that largely eliminated my job: financial-ratio calculation duties.Policy Planning Section: Wrote legal memoranda.

Petroleum Administration Department.Recovered 250 times my pay in gasoline overcharges to TWA by major oil companies.

Marketing/Data Processing: Designed, marketed and installed full line of System 370 computer systems, initially for Xerox Corp. and later for area universities. United Way Chairman for 400 area employees.