This information is as of July 2012. For the most up-to-date list of experience or to suggest additions to this list, contact the Marketing Department.
IMPORTANT - Client and lawyer attributions are for internal use only.
Lawyers with Procurement and Related Dispute Experience
Bob Mercurio, Mitch Gilbert, Jim Tracy) are currently representing the Fashion Institute of Technology (a SUNY entity) in a dispute with a contractor who bid on but was not awarded a construction assignment.
David Butler has "public contract law" experience. Many years ago, he represented an electrical contractor client in the defense of contract awards in New Jersey involving a school board authority.
John Holden's experience includes areas of complex commercial and business litigation, including the challenge of federal contract awards, employment law, and environmental issues. His experience relates to the Department of Defense / Dept of Army - Matter of note is related to certain medical supplies being procured by the Army.
Rich Crooker - Some tangential experience.
Matt Daus - Experience includes procurement.
Pat Russo - NYC Department of Investigation - As an Inspector General of the Department of Investigation, Mr. Russo supervised the attorneys, auditors and investigators overseeing fraud and corruption investigations of the City's social services agencies, programs and contractors. In this capacity, he was responsible for the oversight of more than 22,000 City employees, hundreds of for-profit and non-profit vendors, and annual funding for these programs and agencies exceeding $13 billion.
Sam Destito and Chuck Fisher - See below for In re Garden State School Bus Contractors Association and Javier Fernandez, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Board of Directors of the Passaic County Education Services Commission, K&M Transportation, Inc. and Bondex Insurance Company, Respondents-Respondents.
Transportation Procurement and Related Disputes
Counsel to the largest ground transportation company in the world - providing motor coach, van, and shuttle services to and from New York City (NYC) airports - successfully defending it in complex litigation against a losing government franchise bidder, which involved federal, state, and local interstate and intrastate motor carrier laws and regulations.
A multinational company that conducts automobile safety and emissions inspections and provides technology solutions to both private and public entities, in connection with a government privatization initiative in New Jersey and on related government procurement matters.
Represented an international motor coach company, in connection with a bus franchise and concession bid and agreement with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT)
(Clients: Garden State School Bus Contractors Association and Javier Fernandez, Lawyers: Sam Destito, Chuck Fisher, See press release) In re Garden State School Bus Contractors Association and Javier Fernandez, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Board of Directors of the Passaic County Education Services Commission, K&M Transportation, Inc. and Bondex Insurance Company, Respondents-Respondents, secured a victory for an bus contractor industry association on their claim that the Board of Directors of the Passaic County Education Services Commission ("PCESC") violated the Department of Education statute and regulations when it failed to forfeit the bid bond of a contractor who won multiple school bus transportation routes, but subsequently refused to perform on all the routes it won.
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