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• Drafting and reviewing business contracts.. • Ensuring compliance with Lobbying Disclosure Act.. • Expertise in the area of government ethics, including but not limited to conflict of interests determinations.

Solo Legal Practitioner (2005-Current). Practice focuses on contract, commercial, international, human rights, and media/entertainment law as well as civil and criminal trial consultant services. Legal and administrative background includes bankruptcy, corporate, litigation, probate, international, media/entertainment, and real estate fields.  Member of the Washington, DC Bar. (Was a Member of the Massachusetts Bar from 2005 - 2022. Retired in June 2022). Multilingual/legal translations: French, Spanish, Russian. Law Office of Patrice Sheridan: 1629 K Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006 Office Tel.: Website: email:

Sareesh Rawat is a Government Contracts Attorney licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C., and Maryland. He has represented and provided counsel to domestic and multinational firms in diverse sectors, including information systems and technology, defense, aerospace, manufacturing, real estate, and logistics. His practice is focused on providing outside counsel on federal issues spanning the entire procurement lifecycle. From filing bid protests to navigating complex claims and litigation, Sareesh provides strategic outside counsel to ensure his clients achieve their government contracting goals.

Sam Finnerty represents clients in a wide range of government contracting and litigation matters. His experience includes representing federal contractors in bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and in size and status protests before the Small Business Administration.

Ralph was raised in Frederick, Maryland.  After graduation from high school, he served in the U.S. Air Force for the next four years.  During that time he was stationed in Texas, Illinois, Vietnam and Japan.  He achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant (E-5).  After his honorable discharge, he enrolled in college on Maui, Hawaii, where he was an investigator for the Maui Public Defender.  After receiving an Associate of Arts degree, he transferred to the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Parole Aide for the California Youth Authority.  He graduated from Berkeley with honors and then attended Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  At Harvard Ralph was very active in Drama.  He also represented veterans before military review boards under the school's Committee on Military Justice organization.  After graduating from Harvard, he worked as an associate in a Washington, D.C. law firm that concentrated on antitrust and trade regulation issues.  Two years later he started his own law firm, Thomas John & Everett where he handled a number of high profile cases. He also appeared frequently as a consumer law expert on a  TV consumer protection program called "Dollars and Sense." He then served for the next seven years as the Executive Director of the National Association of Minority Contractors, a group of nation-wide minority-owned construction firms headquartered in Washingon, D.C.  After that, Ralph was appointed as Associate Administrator for Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization at NASA Headquarters, where he received much acclaim for expanding NASA's competitive base of contractors to include more small, minority, and women owned firms.  In 2005, after 13 years at NASA, Ralph returned to practicing law while maintaining his expertise in increasing contract awards to all categories of small businesses. Ralph has conducted more than one hundred training seminars for small businesses.  He has written about 80 articles on small business issues and testified a number of times in Congress about how proposed legislation would impact small businesses.  Internationally, Ralph has spoken at conferences in a number of foreign countries including Hungary, India, Saudi Arabia, Finland, Switzerland, Brazil, Turkey, England, and Canada.  In 2009 Ralph was admitted into the Bar of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.  He also racewalked a 26.2 mile marathon in Negril, Jamaica.

Paul C. Jorgensen is the founder and principal of The Jorgensen Law Firm PLLC, which provides experienced and personalized counsel in trademarks, copyrights, domain names, contracts, e-commerce, and online privacy and security.  In addition to practicing law, he travels worldwide to teach courses on intellectual property, contract drafting and negotiating, legal writing and Internet legal issues.. The firm serves individual clients, organizations and large businesses worldwide, including the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Yahoo!, Hilton Worldwide, Sodexo, Korean Airlines, The Professional Ski Instructors of America, Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions, The Washington D.C. Economic Partnership, Suntory Limited and many others.. Mr. Jorgensen brings his unique combination of corporate and law firm experience to his seminars and to his legal practice. He has designed and negotiated hundreds of successful contracts and licenses, successfully prosecuted many U.S. and international trademark, copyright and domain name applications, and prevailed in domain name and other intellectual property disputes. Before founding The Jorgensen Law Firm, Mr. Jorgensen was a senior intellectual property and contract counsel at the Washington D.C. law firm of Patton Boggs LLP. Before that experience, Paul acted as a Senior Intellectual Property Counsel with Choice Hotels International, Inc., where he managed the large hotel franchisor’s worldwide portfolio of trademarks, copyrights, domain names and trade secrets, designed profitable licensing programs, and helped a wide range of business units reach their goals.. Mr. Jorgensen began his legal career with the Washington D.C. office of Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti after graduating from Georgetown University Law Center in 1988. Mr. Jorgensen remains active in the greater Washington D.C. community, serves on several boards and provides pro bono legal counsel to The National Cherry Blossom Festival and the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Neil McPhie is the Virginia Managing Partner for Tully Rinckey PLLC and concentrates his practice in federal sector employment and labor law.. As a former chairman of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), Mr. McPhie brings a high level of authority and invaluable experience to Tully Rinckey PLLC’s Arlington office, which he manages. In over 30 years of public service, Mr. McPhie has led two government organizations and managed multi-million dollar budgets, in addition to serving as a litigator, adjudicator, employment and personnel lawyer, and human capital strategic advocate. Now at the firm, he pulls from this experience to effectively represent federal employees and personnel in a wide range of employment and labor issues, including discrimination, sexual harassment, equal pay, adverse action, Title VII claims, and Inspector General (IG) investigations.. Following his appointment to a seven-year term by President George W. Bush, Mr. McPhie became a member of the MSPB on April 23, 2003. Later that year, on Dec. 10, President Bush designated him as the board’s vice chairman, and he subsequently became its acting chairman. The U.S. Senate confirmed McPhie as MSPB chairman on Nov. 21, 2004. He was the seventh chairman of the MSPB since its creation in 1979. His term expired on March 1, 2009, though he was statutorily allowed to continue service as chairman of the MSPB until his successor was sworn in on Nov. 12, 2009. At the MSPB, Mr. McPhie played an integral role in revamping what had been viewed as a lethargic agency. Under his leadership, the independent quasi-judicial agency operated more efficiently. The average time MSPB appellants had to wait for the board to decide on their cases went from 295 days in 2003 to less than 100 days in 2009. Another one of Mr. McPhie’s accomplishments as chairman was the 2004 creation of a permanent MSPB Mediation Appeals Program, which is a nationwide program that provides mediation services to MSPB appellants. Mr. McPhie’s in-depth knowledge of federal merit systems gives him an edge in helping clients receive justice in their federal employment cases with expedience. At the time of his appointment to the MSPB, Mr. McPhie was serving as a senior assistant attorney general with the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia. From 1998 to 2002, he served as the executive director of the Virginia Department of Employment Dispute Resolution. He oversaw the management of the agency and directed the implementation of its statewide grievance, mediation, training and consultation programs. Based on this experience, Mr. McPhie knows first-hand how government employers approach employment disputes, allowing him to more effectively represent federal employees in such cases. From 1982 to 1988, Mr. McPhie served as an assistant attorney general for the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, where he defended state agencies and officials in state and federal courts. After receiving his juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976 and up to when he joined the Attorney General’s office, Mr. McPhie served as a trial and appellate attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Mr. McPhie graduated magna cum laude from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in 1973. He has been admitted to bars in Virginia, the District of Columbia and Iowa. His court admissions include the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, several U.S. circuits courts of appeals and district courts in Virginia.

Mr. Petel counsels and represents government contractors on a broad range of government contracting issues, including contract claims and disputes, bid protests, internal investigations, and cost allowability matters.  Mr. Petel is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Justin Shore is a Maryland-barred attorney focused on national security litigation, data privacy and protection regulations, and corporate contract negotiations. He has focused his career on issues that require building new legal and policy structures, and has always been fascinated with the cutting edge of law and policy.. Since graduating cum laude from the American University Washington College of Law in May 2012, Mr. Shore has served in the legal department of TeleTech Holdings, Inc., a marketing oursourcing company. As the principal contract negotiator for its subsidiary company, Revana Corporation, Mr. Shore has drafted numerous agreements involving established technology companies, such as AT&T, Google, Facebook, and IBM.  In addition, Mr. Shore is responsible for advising corporate officers on data privacy and direct marketing laws, such as the FCC’s and FTC’s do-not-call regulations, and the U.S.-EU’s Safe Harbor treaty obligations.. During law school, Mr. Shore was a law clerk at both the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where he developed litigation skills working on complex and nuanced criminal prosecutions. Working within the DOJ’s National Security Division, Counterterrosim Section, Mr. Shore was involved in some of the DOJ’s highest-priority prosecutions, implicating statutes from material support for terrorism to murder-for-hire and financial transaction regulations. While working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Mr. Shore was privileged to be involved in two federal narcotics wiretap trials, both resulting in guilty jury verdicts, as well as the beginning stages of RICO conspiracy cases against the noted mara salvatrucha (MS-13) gang. Throughout these experiences, Mr. Shore wrote pre-trial and trial motions, assisted with witness preparation, and became familiar with conducting investigations and handling pre-litigation matters.. In addition, Mr. Shore served as the Editor-In-Chief of the American University National Security Law Brief – the law school’s journal focusing on cutting-edge matters of national security law and policy – where he managed fifty-two colleagues in publishing two volumes of the publication and implementing the journal’s first online presence. Mr. Shore also served as the President of the university’s Health Law & Justice Initiative, and received the American University Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Service to the Community – the first time the award had been presented to a member of the law school community.. Prior to 2009, Mr. Shore worked at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Having joined Brookings’ Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform when the hard-fought debates that culminated in the HITECH, ARRA, and Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts began, he was involved in some of the initial conversations that led to the largest remake of the U.S. health-care landscape since the 1960s. During his time at Brookings, he was a Working Group leader for the $5 million-dollar American Health and Information Committee (AHIC) grant, where the Center successfully transferred the AHIC from a government-run FACA committee to a public-private partnership responsible for bringing together key industry stakeholders who were focused on the next generation of health information technology. Along with researching and editing working papers and memoranda for the Center, throughout his tenure Mr. Shore worked on numerous policy events and reports with the Center’s partners, including the Coaltion Against Major Diseases, a private industry group composed of the top pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers; the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, a public-private organization encompassing government and industry stakeholders focused on improving the quality of care; and was involved in the beginning stages of the Partnership for a Healthier America, the research arm of the Obama Administration’s “Let’s Move” campaign.. Before joining Brookings, Mr. Shore worked on Gabrielle Giffords first two successful campaigns for the United States House of Representatives in 2006 and 2008, and also served as a legislative intern to Senator John S. McCain during the summer of 2006. He holds a BA degree in Economics from the University of Arizona, and a Juris Doctor from the American University Washington College of Law. Mr. Shore is an active member of the American Bar Association’s National Security, Litigation, and Science & Technology committees, and holds a SECRET-level security clearance from the Department of Justice.

Jordan Savitz is a Principal in the Business Law and Transactions practice group at Baker Donelson, recognized for his forward-thinking and business-minded approach to client representation. Jordan advises clients in all stages of the business life cycle, from choosing the appropriate type and jurisdiction of a new entity, to complex stockholder and operating agreements, restrictive covenant drafting and dispute resolution, employment agreements, complex contract drafting, and negotiation (including Master Service Agreements and home improvement contracts), through succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, and more.. Mr. Savitz grew up in an entrepreneurial environment. He learned to love the challenges inherent in growing a successful business and understands the importance of small businesses in the community. In high school, Mr. Savitz formed his first business venture, OmniNoise Productions, which he used as a platform to showcase local musicians in three "Battle of the Bands" competitions. While a student at Boston University, Jordan gained first-hand experience in finance at Merrill Lynch, commercial real estate at Edens & Avant (now Edens), and branding from both Feld Entertainment (the parent company to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), and Chipotle Mexican Grill, where he was a Student Brand Manager. Mr. Savitz graduated law school cum laude, with a concentration in business law, from the University of Baltimore, where he simultaneously obtained his MBA.. Mr. Savitz leverages his background and passion for supporting entrepreneurship to understand his clients' business model and strategic objectives, and to provide practical legal advice that hedges against current and future risks, while considering business priorities that many other lawyers overlook.. Licensed to practice law in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

I enjoy tennis, baseball and all sports.  I am a naturalist, and an author on the evolution debate between Darwinists and intelligent design theorists, Creation: Towards a Theory of All Things (2005), and have given a number of author lectures from time to time including at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library.  I was an editor of the Michigan Law Review, and also authored a paper on legal jurisprudence that won international praise.  74 Mich. L. Rev. 1167-1199 (1976).  At the University of Michigan, I obtained my Ph.D. in philosophy for my work in moral theory and my J.D. I was awarded the Danforth Fellowship for Advanced Graduate Studies.  I am a member of the United States Supreme Court Bar.. On the lighter side of things, I enjoy singing, songwriting, guitar, piano, and recording.   I am a family man, and always enjoy cooking and barbecuing for my family - and sometimes the whole neighborhood.  I am a Christian churchgoer from a military family.  I love America, and attended the magnificent Inauguration of our new President Barack H. Obama.

Hi, my name is O.T. and I proudly represent what a geriatric millennial lawyer looks like, and so does my virtual law firm. The Walker Collective caters to the contractual, intellectual property, and business formation needs of creative misfits and small business owners, but more importantly, it is accessible to regular degular folks just like you! I was admitted to practice in Maryland and New York in 2014. Prior to the practice of law, I worked in sports tv, radio, and public relations. Enough about me, let's talk about you! Please visit to schedule your consultation.

For nearly 35 years, I have been a general business litigator, with substantial experience in jury trials, bench trials and all forms of alternate dispute resolution.  Over the years, I have also developed considerable experience in handling complex estate disputes and legal malpractice cases and have extensive experience in dealing with disputes arising out of M&A activity and commercial contracts.  My cases have often involved extensive use of expert witnesses, particularly those involving business valuation, value of services and other complex economic issues.. Apart from litigation, I have also negotiated mergers and acquisitions, documented complex real estate financing ventures and drafted a great many contracts.  For approximately four years, while a partner at a large multinational law firm, I also acted as outside general counsel for a mid-sized government contractor (approximately $500 million dollars in annual sales), including the provision of advice on all aspects of its business operations.. With the Butzel Long platform, my colleagues and I are capable of efficiently handling all types of cases, from multi-district class actions involving billions of dollars to relatively small contract disputes.

Dirk D. Haire practices in the areas of construction law and government contracts, with a focus on federal construction law.Dirk’s federal construction practice includes bid protests and claims litigation involving issues such as constructive changes, delays, accelerations, defective work, differing site conditions, default terminations, past performance evaluations, defective specifications, the Administrative Procedures Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Anti-Kickback Act, the Buy American Act, the Civil False Claims Act, the Miller Act, the Prompt Payment Act, and the Truth In Negotiations Act.  He also regularly counsels federal contractors on issues such as teaming arrangements, small business and set-aside strategy and compliance (8(a) contracting, ANC, NAC, HUBZone, SDVOSB), FAR Business Ethics and Conduct Codes and compliance, DCAA audits and investigations, cost allowability and the Cost Accounting Standards, lobbying restrictions and disclosures, project labor agreements, Davis-Bacon Act compliance, subcontracting plans, best value procurement strategy, and debriefings.  Dirk handles federal protests and litigation in the Boards of Contract Appeals, Court of Federal Claims, General Accountability Office, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and various U.S. District Courts.Dirk’s private and institutional construction law practice involves representing contractors and owners in a variety of transactional, project administration, labor relations, and litigation matters.  He has handled numerous contract negotiations and litigation involving airports, cruise ship terminals, piers, power plants, bridges, highways, hotels, office buildings, condominiums, and schools.  Dirk is regularly involved with a variety of private and quasi-private project delivery and contracting methods, including design-build, construction management, EPC, firm fixed price, cost-plus, PPP, and various hybrids thereof.In the industry, Dirk serves on the Executive Board of AGC of America and the Board of Directors of Maryland AGC.  He also currently serves as chair of both the AGC of America FAR Committee and Service and Supply Council.  Chambers USA has ranked Dirk as a leading lawyer in construction law the past three years, most recently describing him in their 2009 Guide as “an excellent communicator with exceptional business understanding.”

Cecilia is the owner and founder of Cecilia R. Jones & Associates, where she practices business (including employment and intellectual property matters) and estate planning law, with an emphasis on exit strategies for entrepreneurs and business owners. She handles corporate formations and structuring, breach of contract disputes, Wills and Trusts, probate, and commercial litigation.. Cecilia has made frequent appearances on MCTV to speak about estate planning, and has been a sought-after guest speaker on the subject of exit strategies, and succession planning for business owners, including the annual Women Business Owners IAAM Conference, and the WSSC Game Changer's Women's Business Conference.

After graduating from Ole Miss and then Cumberland School of Law at Samford University and passing the bar exam, I practiced law for over three years at a large, national law firm in Birmingham, Alabama. I then transitioned into a more corporate legal job in Washington, DC at a global publishing company where I worked as a legal editor writing and editing legal articles.. While working as a legal editor, to scratch my own creative itch, I launched a style and travel blog, Cobalt Chronicles. As I dove deeper into the blogging world and began to meet creatives in different fields (photographers, graphic designers, event planners etc.), I realized there was a hole in a lot of my peers’ businesses - they weren’t utilizing contracts to protect themselves and their businesses.. With my background in the blogging world and my legal expertise, I launched my Contracts for Creatives business, which is where you’ve landed!. My goal is to make your life easier by providing you with easy-to-use contract templates or a custom contract for a specific collaboration, campaign, or business relationship.. I also assist in business registration and with intellectual property issues.