Insights

Washington – March 4, 2025: Crowell & Moring has launched Crowell GovCon Strategies, a new consultancy providing integrated business and legal solutions to guide companies through the strategy, pursuit, and execution of federal procurements.

Crowell & Moring elected 12 new partners effective January 1, 2025. The firm also promoted four lawyers to the senior counsel and 25 associates to counsel.

Kenneth Dintzer, a leading Department of Justice litigator for more than 30 years, has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition, Government Contracts, and Litigation groups.

Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to this year’s GIR 100, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices.

The Los Angeles Business Journal has named Crowell & Moring one of its Leaders of Influence: Most Admired Law Firms 2024. The list recognizes the top firms to work for in Los Angeles and includes “an assortment of particularly outstanding law firms who are consciously working towards creating diverse, positive, and supportive environments to help drive the success of their attorneys.”

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals ruled in favor of Crowell & Moring client Lockheed Martin in the C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Re-engineering Program dispute (Appeal of Lockheed Martin, ASBCA No. 62209), holding that Lockheed Martin is entitled to $131,888,860 plus interest under the Contract Disputes Act. The decision follows a four-week bench trial in October 2022.

The Burton Awards honored Crowell & Moring partners Jason Crawford, Olivia Lynch, and Brian Tully McLaughlin with Law360’s Distinguished Legal Writing Award for their article on the future of enforcement actions focused on pandemic relief fraud. The award was presented at a gala reception at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. on Monday, May 20.

The National Association of Women Lawyers named Crowell & Moring counsel Alexandra Barbee-Garrett to the NAWL Rising List for 2024. The list honors “early- to mid-career attorneys committed to NAWL’s mission by either advancing women in the profession or advocating for women under the law.”

DCA Live named Crowell & Moring partner Adelicia R. Cliffe to its list of NEW Power Women of GovCon. The list honors women “leading and advising some of the fastest growing and most exciting firms in the DC region’s robust and dynamic government contracting community.”

The Boards of Contract Appeals Bar Association has elected Crowell & Moring partners Skye Mathieson and Michelle D. Coleman as president and vice president, respectively.

Eric M. Ransom, a former attorney with the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, has rejoined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s premier Government Contracts Group. Eric will advise clients on the intersection of procurement laws, regulations, and best practices; and Artificial Intelligence and sophisticated defense technologies.