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Office
of The Assistant General Counsel
for Finance and Litigation: Contract Law Division
Division Staff
Richard Brown
Mr. Brown received his JD from the University of Baltimore School of Law
in 1977; and he received his undergraduate degree, a BA, from the University
of Maryland in 1974. He is a member of the Maryland and DC bars. He has
been involved in Government contracts since 1980, starting out as a contract
specialist, and then as a contracting officer. Before joining the Division
in 2001 as a Senior Contracts Attorney, he was an attorney in the Business
Law Branch of the Office of the General Counsel for the US Department
of Health and Human Services specializing in all aspects of Government
Contracts. Send email to RBrown@doc.gov
Diane Canzano
Senior Contracts Attorney. J.D. George Mason University School of Law,
Arlington, VA, 1990; B.A. English and Spanish, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 1985. Practicing for federal government
since 1991. Experience includes: procurement law, including suspension
and debarment, claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act, and appeals under
the Freedom of Information Act. Send email to DCanzano@doc.gov
Amy Kiger Crotts
Contracts Attorney. J.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC,
1997; B.A. History, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 1994.
Admitted to practice in North Carolina and the District of Columbia. Prior
experience as a prosecuting attorney for the District of Columbia and
as a solo practitioner in North Carolina, practicing criminal and family
law. Send email to ACrotts@doc.gov
Lynn Flanagan
Ms. Flanagan recently joined the Contract Law Division at the Department
of Commerce as a Senior Contracts Attorney, having specialized in procurement,
property, agreements, and fiscal law matters, including litigation, for
20 years at the Department of Agriculture. Prior to her federal service
she served as an appellate attorney in the Boston, MA, Office of the District
Attorney. Ms. Flanagan holds a J.D. from the New England School of Law
in 1976 and a B.A. from Manhattanville College in 1973. She is admitted
to practice in the District of Columbia and Massachusetts. Send email
to LFlanagan@DOC.GOV
Lauren Bollt Kalish
Lauren Kalish joined the Division in 2003. Ms. Kalish received her J.D.
in 2003 from George Washington University Law School and graduated cum
laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in History in 2000.
She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and her application for admission
to the bar of the District of Columbia is pending. We are extremely pleased
to welcome her as our newest addition to our staff. Send email to LKalish@DOC.GOV
Fred Kopatich
Senior Contracts Attorney. J.D. Hastings College of Law, San Francisco,
California, 1983; B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1972. Practicing
procurement law since 1985 for private firms and the federal Government.
Other areas of practice have included commercial litigation and appeals.
Send email to FKopati1@doc.gov
Mark Langstein
Chief, Contract Law Division. Coming from a four-year litigation stint
with GSA, Mark has been with the Commerce Department's Contract Law Division
for over seventeen years. During this time, he has been involved with
many of the thorniest procurement issues and much of the major contract
litigation. Mark is an honors graduate of Boston College Law School, served
on its Law Review and is a member of the Order of the Coif. Mark received
his undergraduate degree from NYC’s New School for Social Research.
Send email to MLangstein@doc.gov
Terry Lee
Senior Contracts Attorney. Ms. Lee has nineteen years of experience as
a trial attorney, practicing before various judicial and quasi-judicial
tribunals in the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania. She handles cases
with a concentration in federal procurement law and advises senior management
in government contractual and finance matters. She has practiced, as well,
in the areas of commercial law, equal employment opportunity law, federal
personnel law and entertainment law. For three years, Ms. Lee was an appointed
Administrative Judge, presiding over bid protests, appeals and other contractual
matters brought before the District of Columbia Board of Contract Appeals.
Ms. Lee received her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law (the
first African-American female graduate) and her undergraduate degree from
Boston University. She is member of the bars of the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania, United States Court of Federal Claims and United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is also a member of the
Federal Bar Association. She is a native of Philadelphia, PA. Send email
to TLee1@doc.gov
Ed Weber
Senior Contracts Attorney. Joined the Contract Law Division in August,
1997, from the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation, where he was employed as Senior Attorney for Government Contract
and Procurement Law from 1991-1997. Prior thereto, he specialized in Government
Contract Law matters with the U.S. Department of Energy-Office of the
General Counsel (Procurement and Finance) and the Department of Defense-U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers (Office of the Baltimore District Counsel). He
also served as Judicial Clerk to the Hon. Paul E. Alpert, Maryland Court
of Special Appeals and Circuit Court for Baltimore County (1980-1983).
Admitted to Practice: Maryland, 1983. Graduate of: University of Baltimore
Law Center (J.D. 1980); University of Texas School of Public Health (M.P.H.
1976); and University of Maryland-College Park (B.S. 1975). Send email
to eweber@doc.gov
Shraddha Upadhyaya
Send email to SUpadhyaya@DOC.GOV
