William H. Butterfield graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1967, where he was a member of the Law Review. He joined Kilcullen, Wilson & Kilcullen in 1996.

Mr. Butterfield specializes in government contracts, federal procurement law, and related litigation. He has represented some of the nation's leading government contractors, including: Litton Industries; General Dynamics; AT&T; ITT; GTE, Incorporated; Teledyne, Incorporated; Burroughs Corporation; IBM; General Electric; Planning Research Corporation; Unisys; and Xerox. Mr. Butterfield has tried cases before virtually every federal agency board of contract appeals.

Mr. Butterfield has argued cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the former Court of Claims). He has tried/argued government contract cases in federal district courts in the District of Columbia, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Mississippi, Minnesota, and Texas. He has prepared formal claims/requests for equitable adjustments for several companies, ranging in value from less than $1 million to more than $100 million. Mr. Butterfield has personally tried cases involving issues such as proof of quantum; defective specifications; constructive changes; delay and disruption; cost allowability; defective pricing; reverse FOIA; liquidated damages; warranties; and convenience and default terminations. He has personally handled numerous bid protest matters at the General Accounting Office, the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals, and in federal court. Representation has included both protesters and intervenor/awardees. Several of these matters have included procurements valued in excess of $100 million, and one involved a procurement in excess of $4 billion.

Mr. Butterfield is the author of numerous professional articles on the topic of government contracts (e.g., BNA Federal Contracts Report; National Contract Management Journal; Computer Age Magazine; Federal Computer Market Report). Mr. Butterfield is the winner of the Delaney Award for best procurement article of 1987-awarded by NCMA.

He is admitted to practice before all courts in the State of New York, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Section on Public Contract Law); Federal Bar Association (Section on Government Contracts and Litigation); the Bar Association of the District of Columbia; the District of Columbia Bar; the Virginia State Bar; and the Virginia Bar Association.

Ronald E. Gilbertson graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1979 and joined the Firm in 1983. Prior to joining the Firm, he was supervising attorney for the United States Department of Labor Benefits Review Board. Since joining the Firm, he has specialized in the area of federal black lung appellate work before the Benefits Review Board and the United States Courts of Appeal. Mr. Gilbertson represents insurance companies, claims management companies, and individual coal mine operators. In addition, he has practiced extensively in the areas of federal contracts and construction law, representing The Travelers Companies, Santa Fe Engineers, Maecon, and CACI, Incorporated, in claim preparation, bid protests, and claims litigation.

Christopher M. Johnson has been with the Firm of Kilcullen, Wilson & Kilcullen since 1986. He received his undergraduate degree with high honors in 1977 and his masters degree in Public Administration in 1979, both from the University of Florida. In 1986, he received his law degree from the George Washington University with a concentration on Federal procurement law and he joined the Firm that year. Mr. Johnson left the Firm in 1992 to become a Trial Counsel in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Office of Counsel, Procurement Litigation Section.

While at the VA, he represented the agency in disputes arising from VA service contracts and real property acquisitions. He also served as the agency’s legal representative in negotiations with state and local authorities concerning joint funding of VA capital improvement projects. He returned to the Firm in 1994. While in private practice, Mr. Johnson has represented federal construction, service and supply contractors in bid protest proceedings and performance disputes before the General Accounting Office, the various agency boards of contract appeal, and the United States Court of Federal Claims. He has also represented private construction contractors in state and federal courts in the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia as well as in private arbitration proceedings. In addition to litigation, Mr. Johnson’s other areas of expertise include contract review and negotiation and claims preparation.

Mr. Johnson is the co-author of Liability and Insurance, Patin and Johnson, Construction Briefings, No. 89-9, Federal Publications, August 1989. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Virginia Bar (Construction Contracts Section), the District of Columbia Bar (Procurement Law Section), and the Contract Services Association of America (Procurement Section).

Peter M. Kilcullen, one of the founders of the Firm, graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1966 and immediately entered private practice, specializing in government contracts and construction law. During the past 33 years, Mr. Kilcullen has successfully obtained multi-million dollar recoveries on behalf of contractors in major construction projects throughout the United States. These include the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida; the Cannelton Dam project on the Ohio River; and the WMATA subway project in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kilcullen is presently special counsel to the Massachusetts Highway Department for the Central Artery Tunnel Project in Boston, the largest construction project in the United States. Mr. Kilcullen represents major dredging companies such as T.L. James & Company, Bean Dredging Corporation, Weeks Marine, and Mike Hooks on their projects throughout the United States.

Mr. Kilcullen also actively represents information technology companies such as CACI, Incorporated. This representation includes claims, protests at the Court of Federal Claims, and appellate work. Supply contractors such as Schlumberger, Incorporated, Plessey, Incorporated, Prosser Industries, Isometrics, Incorporated, and Camel Manufacturing Company are represented by Mr. Kilcullen on claims, protests, and general legal counsel.

Mr. Kilcullen has in-depth experience representing bonding and surety companies. Currently, Fireman’s Fund is using Mr. Kilcullen to pursue multi-million dollar claims against the Corps of Engineers. Mr. Kilcullen is experienced in federal grants and is the co-author of Construction Contracting Under EPA Grants, published in Construction Briefings in July 1978.

Cyrus E. Phillips, IV, graduated from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary in 1968, and joined the Firm in 1995. He began his career defending protests and trying contract claims as an attorney-adviser with the Defense Logistics Agency’s Defense Construction Supply Center. He was appointed as an Administrative Judge, General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals, in 1980, and eventually became the GSBCA’s Vice Chairman. He heard and decided many major contract claims arising from federal construction projects and from federal leases of office and warehouse space. In 1985, he became increasingly involved in the GSBCA’s new protest jurisdiction over computer and telecommunications acquisitions. Mr. Phillips left the GSBCA in 1987 to enter private practice. His practice focuses on protests arising from awards of federal and state contracts, and on claims arising from performance of these contracts. Mr. Phillips represents contractors and federal, state, and local agencies. In addition to protests and claims, he routinely provides advice to his private clients on white-collar fraud defense issues, debarments, civil fraud claims, cost issues, small business status issues, and teaming/subcontract disputes. He regularly assists his private clients in presenting their positions before Congress. Mr. Phillips has received the Assistant Secretary’s Award for Excellence from the United States Department of State, Bureau of Administration, and in 1991, he received Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100 Award. He is an author and frequent lecturer on public contact law and litigation topics.

Member of the Virginia and District of Columbia bars. Admitted to the Supreme Court of Virginia, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, United States Court of Federal Claims, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Supreme Court of the United States of America. Member, American Arbitration Association National Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators.

Walter A. I. Wilson is a graduate of the American University Law School (J.D. 1968), where he was an editor of the Law Review. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and various Federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.

After graduation, Mr. Wilson served for five years as a trial lawyer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, specializing in Federal procurement matters. From 1973 through 1974 he was employed as a lawyer for the Renegotiation Board, a Federal agency charged with overseeing the reasonableness of profits made by contractors who performed more than $1 million of business with the government during a fiscal year. In 1974, Mr. Wilson joined the Washington, D.C. law firm of Hudson & Creyke, where he became a partner in 1976. In 1980 he formed the law firm of Kilcullen, Wilson & Kilcullen with Peter M. Kilcullen.

Since 1968, Mr. Wilson’s practice has focused on procurement problems at the Federal, state and local levels, with an emphasis in the areas of construction law and construction claims litigation. He has been involved in all phases of government contracting, including bid protests, contract administration, change order negotiations, claims, and disputes. His current clients include owners, contractors, architects and engineers, and bonding companies. Mr. Wilson has also served as lead counsel in matters before Federal and state courts and administrative boards. Mr. Wilson is the General Editor for The Government Contractor, Matthew-Bender’s 13 volume loose leaf service, which provides the procurement community with up to date information on the FAR and the all aspects of the Federal procurement process. Although an experienced litigator for the past 30 years, Mr. Wilson’s practice emphasizes claims avoidance strategies and alternative dispute resolution.

Robert J. Gomez is Of Counsel to the Firm. Mr. Gomez received his Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, and his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center. He is engaged in a national law practice in all matters relating to government contracts and construction. He possesses experience in engineering and related legal issues spanning more than thirty-five years, with an emphasis on complex claims and dispute resolution in major systems acquisitions, including aerospace, shipbuilding, and construction.

He began his career as an engineer for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships (now the Naval Sea Systems Command) from 1958 until 1967. From 1967 until 1970, served as a member of the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Maritime Administration representing the Administration in major ship construction claims and disputes. In 1970, joined the Office of the General Counsel of the Navy and was appointed Assistant General Counsel in 1974 as the Secretary of the Navy’s principal legal advisor. As a lawyer with the Navy, prepared the Navy’s legal position for the negotiation and resolution of approximately $2 billion of claims submitted by major Navy contractors. In 1977, appointed as a Judge on the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals. As a judge for 14 years on the Board, disposed of and decided approximately 700 contract appeals relating to scientific, engineering, budgeting, and cost accounting problems. In 1992, retired from the ASBCA to become a Senior Principal and Leader of the Claims and Litigation Support Practice of American Management Systems. There, led the AMS practice related to defense acquisition, claims, schedule and delay analysis, litigation support, and alternative dispute resolution. On behalf of several clients, addressed over $400 million in claims filed with the government, defining the legal and factual issues, organizing fact-finding relevant to those issues, and preparing entitlement positions to support the client's claims. In 1995, entered private practice. In his private capacity, has presided over numerous ADR proceedings including construction projects with the Army Corps of Engineers, the Defense Logistics Agency, Navy Facilities Engineering Command, the USIA, the Dallas Rapid Transit Authority and several prime/subcontractors. Has also received several federal and state court referrals for conducting ADR, has provided ADR training to federal and state agencies, and he writes and speaks extensively before national fora on the subject of ADR.

Mr. Gomez is a member of the Virginia State Bar (Judicial Member); The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association, its Public Contracts Section, where he serves as Vice Chairperson of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, and its Disputes Resolution Section; the Board of Contract Appeals Judges Association (where he served as General Counsel, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors); the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; and The Institution of Civil Engineers.

He currently teaches an ADR course at George Washington Law School for which he has co-authored a textbook entitled Alternative Means of Resolving Disputes. Has also authored the Suspension of Work/Delay chapter in a text entitled Construction Claims Deskbook: Management, Documentation and Presentation of Claims published by John Wiley & Sons. He has written papers on Eichleay for American Bar Association events and recently published an article for the Government Contractor entitled: ADR in Government Contracts: Trend or Revolution.

Douglas K. Olson is Of Counsel to the Firm. Mr. Olson graduated from the National Law Center of the George Washington University in 1967 and obtained his L.L.M. in government procurement in 1973. He served as staff attorney for the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, the Energy Research and Development Administration, and the Department of Energy. He was House Counsel for the Solar Energy Research Institute before joining the Firm.

Mr. Olson represents numerous government construction, services, and supply contractors. He has extensive experience with contracts for electrical power generation projects as well as Department of Defense contracts. Many of his clients are foreign contractors working for government agencies. He also assists his clients with procurement-related congressional problems.

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