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Shareholder
Areas of Practice
Mr. O'Donnell is co-chair of the firm's Construction
Law and Government
Contracts Practice Groups.
Professional Qualifications
In over thirty-five years of practice, Mr. O’Donnell has specialized in public contract and construction law at the federal, state and local levels. He has litigated cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts, the boards of contract appeals and the Government Accountability Office. Representative cases include: restructure of a multibillion dollar classified contract on behalf of a major defense contractor; defense of a national construction contractor and its pipe supplier against latent defect claims on a significant aqueduct project; trial of a termination dispute between the prime and subcontractor on a major state IT systems development contract; successful resolution of a multimillion dollar cost accounting standards dispute with the government on behalf of an aerospace material contractor; pursuing actions relating to power plant and water treatment plant construction projects on behalf of general contractors, subcontractors and the suppliers and fabricators of principal components; federal and state false claim act actions and federal, state and local bid protests relating to equipment, software and service contracts, including the $35 billion Air Force Air Tanker procurement.
Mr. O’Donnell has been named one of the leading government contract lawyers in the country in every edition of Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, since 2005. He is also included in the annual list of “Best Lawyers in America” and is recognized as one of California’s outstanding construction lawyers in Who’s Who Legal: California 2009. He has served as chairman and vice-chairman of several committees of the ABA Public Contract Law Section as well as on the Executive Committee of the California State Bar’s Public Law Section. Mr. O’Donnell has written and lectured on a wide variety of government contract and construction issues. He is presently on the Advisory Committee for The Government Contractor and the Associated General Contractors of California Legal Advisory Committee and is a member of the ABA Forum Committee on the Construction Industry. He is a former president and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of BAVC, one of the nation's leading media arts organizations, and is also on the Board of San Francisco Performances.
Education
J.D., Yale Law School,
1973
Editor of Law Journal
B.A., Williams College,
1967
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
California - 1973
District of Columbia - 2012
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Practices
Government Contracts
Construction
Recent Publications and Public Speaking
FEATURE COMMENT: The
A-12 Saga Continues (PDF)
The Government Contractor, Vol. 52, No. 45, December 8, 2010
by N. O'Donnell and
D. Callahan
The California False Claims Act: Public
Entities' New Weapon Against Contractors
Presented to Construction Division of ABA Public
Contract Section, August 11, 2003
by N. O'Donnell
Defective Work, Effective Litigation,
Claims, Coverage and Trends: Experts in Defective
Work Cases
Presented to the Forum Committee on the Construction
Industry, American Bar Association, October
3-4, 2002 (PDF)
by N. O'Donnell
Contact
Robert Dollar Building, 10th Floor
311 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415.956.2828
Fax: 415.956.6457
nodonnell@rjo.com
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