Samantha Skolnick

• Represented government contractors in pre-award and post-award protests at the federal, state, and local levels, including at the Government Accountability Office, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and tribunals in Georgia and Texas.
• Representing a joint venture of three large contractors in the prosecution of claims totaling nearly $500 million against a public entity related to differing site conditions on a subway extension project.
• Representing a globally recognized leader in tolling and intelligent traffic management systems in connection with a dispute over contracts for the integration of toll systems servicing two California freeways.
• Advising a foreign affairs ministry and their financial office to draft and revise numerous requests for proposal, agreements, terms of references, and other pertinent documents related to various purchases, including for the purchase of armored vehicles.
• Directed a second successful post-award bid protest on behalf of a payment processing company, an incumbent vendor that began providing e-payment services to the Internal Revenue Service in 2009. Our first post-award bid protest in 2021 for this client resulted in the IRS reprocuring the contracts. The awarded contracts represented more than $1 billion of business.
• Represented an engineering services company in defense of claims arising out of the development of two biomass plants in Franklin County, GA and Madison County, GA. Claims exceed $250 million and involve disputes concerning plant design, construction, and performance.
• Won a new multiyear contract, worth several hundred million dollars per year, as part of a settlement on behalf of Blue Shield of California in litigation against California’s Department of Health Care Services for a statewide Medi-Cal managed care Medicaid procurement award.
• Represented various private equity firms in M&A transactions, including recapitalizations and acquisitions in the construction and transportation industries.

Samantha Skolnick focuses her practice on supporting clients’ construction and government contracts  needs. She provides counseling to government contractors on a wide variety of matters and represents a broad range of clients in negotiating contracts and litigation related to construction dispute claims.

Before joining the firm, Samantha worked as a litigation associate in the Atlanta office of a real estate and business litigation firm where she handled construction and commercial litigation matters. She has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star for Construction Litigation. She was also recognized as the “Young Lawyer of the Year” for the Atlanta Bar Association’s Atlanta Council of Young Lawyers section.

Samantha received her J.D. from the Emory University School of Law, where she was an active member of the Emory Law Moot Court Society. While at Emory, she was inducted into the Order of the Barristers and received the Burt and Betty Schear Book Prize. She earned her B.A. in sociology from the University of Florida.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• Emory University (J.D., 2017)
• University of Florida (B.A., 2013)

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