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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 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: a restructuring 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; a multimillion dollar cost
accounting standards dispute with the government
on behalf of an aerospace material contractor;
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; and federal,
state and local bid protests relating to equipment,
software and service contracts.
Mr. O’Donnell was named one of the leading government contract lawyers in the country in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 editions of Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business. 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. He has written and lectured on a wide variety of government contract and construction issues. Mr. O’Donnell 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.
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
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Practices
Government Contracts
Construction Law
Recent Publications
The California False Claims Act: Public
Entities' New Weapon Against Contractors
Presented to Construction Division of ABA Public
Contract Section, August 11, 2003
by Neil O'Donnell
Defective Work, Effective Litigation,
Claims, Coverage and Trends: Experts in Defective
Work Cases (PDF)
Presented to the Forum Committee on the Construction
Industry, American Bar Association on October
3-4, 2002
by Neil O'Donnell
Contact
Robert Dollar Building, 10th Floor
311 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415.956.2828
Fax: 415.956.6457
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