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Tysons Attorney Workplace Cases: When Lawyers Become the Plaintiffs

Big Law Tysons offices, in-house departments, and Northern Virginia firm associates face up-or-out, partnership track, and origination disputes that the standard wrongful termination analysis does not capture. Bar admission, professional reputation, and the small Northern Virginia legal community all enter the equation. I represent attorneys in Tysons workplace disputes. Call me before the partnership review concludes.

Qui Tam and Whistleblower Litigation for Federal Contractors in Norfolk and Hampton Roads, Virginia

A first-person guide for naval federal contractor employees working at Naval Station Norfolk, NAS Norfolk, US Fleet Forces Command, US 2nd Fleet, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, Coast Guard Atlantic Area HQ, and across the Hampton Roads naval shipbuilding and ship repair corridor who have seen fraud at Huntington Ingalls Industries, BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, General Dynamics NASSCO, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Booz Allen, SAIC, Leidos, ManTech, CACI, KBR, or another Hampton Roads naval prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division.

Qui Tam and Whistleblower Litigation for Federal Contractors in Newport News, Virginia

A first-person guide for federal contractor employees working at Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding, NASA Langley Research Center, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Fort Eustis, and across the Newport News and Peninsula contractor corridor who have seen fraud at HII, NASA primes, JBLE-supporting contractors, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Booz Allen, SAIC, Leidos, ManTech, KBR, or another Newport News prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia, Newport News Division.

Qui Tam and Whistleblower Litigation for Federal Contractors at Indian Head NSWC, Maryland

A first-person guide for federal contractor employees working at Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division, the Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity, and across the Charles County energetics and ordnance contractor footprint who have seen fraud at BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Day & Zimmermann, KBR, General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, L3Harris, Battelle, SAIC, Leidos, Booz Allen, CACI, ManTech, or another NSWC Indian Head prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the District of Maryland.

Qui Tam and Whistleblower Litigation for Federal Contractors in Rockville, Silver Spring, and Gaithersburg, Maryland

A first-person guide for federal contractor employees working at the National Institutes of Health (Rockville offices), the Food and Drug Administration White Oak campus in Silver Spring, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at White Flint, HHS Parklawn, and across the Montgomery County civilian agency contractor footprint who have seen fraud at Booz Allen, Leidos, SAIC, GDIT, ManTech, CACI, AECOM, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Verizon, or a small-business 8(a) or SDVOSB pass-through prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the District of Maryland.

Qui Tam and Whistleblower Litigation for Federal Contractors at Fort Detrick and Frederick, Maryland

A first-person guide for biomedical and biological defense federal contractor employees working at Fort Detrick, USAMRIID, USAMRDC, USAMRICD, the NCI Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, the NIAID Integrated Research Facility, and across the Frederick County biomedical research contractor footprint who have seen fraud at Leidos Biomedical Research, Battelle, KBR, SAIC, Booz Allen, ManTech, GDIT, Charles River Labs, BioReliance, or another biomedical or biological defense prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the District of Maryland.

Qui Tam and Whistleblower Litigation for Federal Contractors at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, District of Columbia

A first-person guide for federal contractor employees working at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Naval District Washington, Air Force District Washington, and across the District of Columbia intelligence community and DOD contractor footprint who have seen fraud at Booz Allen, SAIC, Leidos, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, CACI, ManTech, GDIT, KBR, or another JBAB-supporting prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Qui Tam and Whistleblower Litigation for Federal Contractors in Fairfax and Falls Church, Virginia

A first-person guide for federal contractor employees working at GDIT Headquarters, Defense Health Agency Headquarters, BAE Systems Inc., and across the Fairfax County and Falls Church federal contractor corridor who have seen fraud at General Dynamics Information Technology, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Booz Allen, SAIC, Leidos, ManTech, CACI, KBR, Lockheed Martin, or another Fairfax-Falls Church prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Subcontractor and Prime/Subcontractor Disputes: A Northern Virginia Attorney’s Guide for Federal Contractors

A comprehensive Northern Virginia attorney's guide to subcontractor and prime/subcontractor disputes in federal contracting for primes and subs in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Covers FAR Part 44 subcontract administration, consent-to-subcontract under FAR 52.244-2, mandatory and discretionary flow-down clauses, the Christian Doctrine, the Severin pass-through and sponsorship claim framework, teaming agreements and joint ventures, mentor-protege arrangements, payment disputes under the Prompt Payment Act and the pay-when-paid versus pay-if-paid distinction, subcontract termination, dispute resolution mechanisms, and the practical questions primes and subcontractors face when relationships go sideways.

Non-Competes for Federal Contractors: A Northern Virginia Attorney’s Guide

A comprehensive Northern Virginia attorney's guide to non-compete agreements for federal contractors and federal contractor employees in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Covers the Virginia low-wage non-compete prohibition, Maryland's wage threshold restrictions, DC's broad non-compete ban with highly compensated exceptions, the vacated FTC non-compete rule and Ryan LLC v. FTC, Defend Trade Secrets Act protection, non-solicit and non-disclosure alternatives, garden leave structures, and the federal contractor specific factors that shape enforceability in the cleared and uncleared contractor workforce.

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