Richard W. Oehler, Program Co-Chair, is a partner in the Seattle office of
Perkins Coie. He counsels entities regarding public contracts with federal, state
and local governments and handles Government contract disputes, Government
investigations and Public Disclosure Act/Freedom of Information Act cases. He
also handles international government contract matters, including export
controls and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters. Prior to joining Perkins
Coie, he served for many years as a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of
Justice in Washington, D.C., where he represented the United States in federal
court disputes.
Hugh D. Spitzer, Program Co-Chair, is a public finance lawyer at Foster
Pepper & Shefelman PLLC who has served as bond counsel on most types of
public financings. He participates in utility, school, city, housing authority,
special district and transportation financings, and is well known for his work
with major public facilities projects. He is also known for structuring intergovernmental
and public-private cooperative projects, and represents public and
nonprofit entities in contract negotiations. Mr. Spitzer teaches local government
law and state constitutional law at the U.W. Law School, and has published
widely on public finance, public contracting and related topics.
David O. Thompson, Program Co-Chair, is a partner at Preston Gates & Ellis,
LLP and focuses his practice on municipal law and municipal finance including
bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel work. He has worked on a variety of
transactions, including numerous general obligation and revenue bond issues,
assessment bond issues, lease financings, short-term obligations, industrial
development bonds and certificates of participation. He has helped structure
public-private financing transactions for municipal, corporate and nonprofit
clients. Mr. Thompson currently serves as bond counsel for King County, the
City of Port Angeles, the Port of Bellingham, the Port of Moses Lake, Tacoma
School District, the City of Ketchikan and the City of Westport.
Deborah L. Cade is an Assistant Attorney General in the Transportation and
Public Construction Division of the Washington State Office of the Attorney
General, and represents the Department of Transportation and Department of
Corrections in environmental and other matters related to public construction.
She has represented the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge project since 1993. She
has also just completed co-authoring a volume on transportation construction
law for the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Academy
of Sciences.
Rodney Eng is the Director of Contracts for the Seattle City Attorney’s Office.
A primary emphasis of his legal practice involves public works contracting and
litigation. He was an original member of the Washington State Alternative
Public Works Methods Oversight Committee, which was charged with
reviewing and making recommendations about the current and future use of
design-build and other alternative public works contracting procedures, as well
as traditional public works procedures.
Erin Fletcher is the Project Engineering and Construction Coordinator for the
Seattle Monorail Project. Her responsibilities include managing many of the
technical issues associated with the monorail, particularly as it relates to the
DBOM procurement. Prior to this, she was responsible for developing technical
information as well as coordinating inspections for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Project, a $615 million public-private partnership project that is the first major
transportation design-build project in Washington state.
Greg Guedel is a member at the Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC Seattle
office. He works with the Construction Practice Group, Real Estate Practice
Group and Litigation and ADR Practice Group. He concentrates his practice on
complex construction, government contracting, and business law. He has
experience with all aspects of pre-trial, trial, and appellate case management;
analysis, preparation, negotiation, and litigation/ADR of contractor and owner
claims; as well as drafting and interpretation of prime, sub, design/build, and
construction management contracts. He has additional experience with
construction escrow planning and management, serving developers and
financial institutions.
Ken Johnsen is a Principal with Shiels Obletz Johnsen, which specializes in
the management of complex urban development projects for public and private
clients. He was Executive Director of the Washington State Major League
Baseball Stadium Public Facilities District which sited, designed and built
Safeco Field. He is currently Project Director for the City of Seattle Civic
Center Project, which includes a new Justice Center, City Hall and Open Space
Program on three blocks in downtown Seattle. He is also the former Manager
of Planning and Research and Director of Development for the Port of
Portland.
Thomas Kuffel is a Senior Deputy Prosecutor who manages the Contracts,
Procurement and Court Services Section in the Civil Division of the King
County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. He represents various county departments
and agencies on a variety of public procurement matters, including the
procurement of capital works projects.
James F. Nagle is a partner at Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker LLP where he
focuses his practice on government contracts and construction law. He has
extensive experience in supply, services, international, major systems and
construction contracts. He has written numerous books and articles on federal
contracting and is a frequent lecturer on government procurement.
Richard C. Yarmuth is a partner of Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo PLLC and focuses
his practice primarily on complex commercial litigation, dispute resolution,
contract negotiation, municipal law projects and public utility project development.
His projects have included representing the City of Seattle, Snohomish
County and other local governments in contracts and litigation involving water
and solid waste issues including negotiating Seattle’s $700 million long-haul
waste disposal contract with Waste Management, Inc.
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