Tyson Arbuthnot
Thomas D. Blanford
Ann M. Blessing
Robert J. Breakstone
Dennis J. Callahan
Thomas H. Carlson
Walter S. Chen
Linda L. Daube
Robert C. Goodman
Dennis C. Huie
Allan J. Joseph
Suhani Kamdar
Christine S. Liyanto
James Robert Maxwell
Joseph C. McGowan
Patricia A. Meagher
Suzanne M. Mellard
Alexis J. Morris
Neil H. O'Donnell
Robert M. Osier
Joseph W. Rogers
D. Kevin Shipp
Aaron P. Silberman
Renée D. Wasserman
Margot Wenger
Alan J. Wilhelmy
Paul M. Zieff


Patricia A. Meagher
Shareholder

Areas of Practice

Ms. Meagher is a member of the firm’s Government Contracts and Construction Law Practice Groups. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in public contracting at the federal, state and local levels.

Professional Qualifications

Ms. Meagher concentrates in the areas of government contracts, litigation and construction law.  Her practice includes counseling both prime contractors and subcontractors in a wide variety of procurement matters, including commercial item acquisitions, technical data rights, submission of claims, bid protests, terminations teaming agreements and joint ventures.  She also represents firms involved with performing state and local public works projects and has particular expertise in protests, claims and payment disputes.  Ms. Meagher litigates government contract and construction cases in state court, federal district court, and before the Boards of Contract Appeals and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Ms. Meagher is a past chair of the ABA Section of Public Contract Law and a Section Fellow.  She is a past chair of the Federal Subcontracting Committee and had primary responsibility for the ABA Model Subcontract Terms and Conditions for Fixed-Price Supply Contracts (1996 Edition).  In addition, she is a member of the Board of Directors of Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), a public policy organization that advocates for women-owned small businesses.

After graduating from law school, Ms. Meagher served as a law clerk to the Honorable Philip Nichols, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.

Education

J.D., Catholic University of America Columbia
Columbus School of Law School ,
1982
Member, Catholic University Law Review

B.A., University of Virginia, 1979
With honors

Bar Admissions
District of Columbia - 1982
California - 1984




Practices
Construction
Government Contracts


Contact

Robert Dollar Building, 10th Floor
311 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415.956.2828
Fax: 415.956.6457
pmeagher@rjo.com