Partner, Washington DC
1900 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006-1108

TEL: 202.496.7551
FAX: 202.496.7756
EMAIL: rpushkar@mckennalong.com

PROFILE

Ray Pushkar is a partner in McKenna Long & Aldridge's Washington, DC office. He joined the firm in 1970 and served as chair of the Government Contracts Department for seven years. Mr. Pushkar's practice encompasses a wide range of government contracts counseling and litigation.

He has represented and counseled clients and lectured extensively in the areas of contract formation and negotiation, subcontracting, joint venture and teaming agreements, trade secrets, cost recovery, bid protests, claims preparation and presentation, debarment and suspension, procurement fraud investigations and audits, compliance and due diligence programs, service and GSA schedule contracting, contingency contracting, and contracting in the battlespace. He has engaged in substantial contract litigation before the boards of contract appeals, U.S. district courts, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the GAO and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In 2005 he was named to the ABA Public Contracts Section Task Force on Battlespace Procurement and was appointed Vice Chair effective 2007 to the ABA Battle Space & Contingency Contracting Committee.  Subsequently, he has appeared twice on National Public Radio's Marketplace on contract issues in the rebuild of Iraq. He was also featured in the November 2004 issue of Security Management Magazine on "Working in a War Zone."

Mr. Pushkar is the author of "Due Diligence In the Acquisition of a Government Contractor," which appeared in the September and October 2007  issues of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel ; "Small Business: Is David Fighting Goliath or Becoming Goliath?" NCMA's Contract Management (August 2004); co-author of "Legal Requirements for Insurance for Contractor Employees Working Abroad," CSAA's Linkage (Summer 2004); and "War Risk Insurance Alert: Legal Requirements and Issues on Insurance for Contractor Employees Working Abroad," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (March 2004); author of "Electronic Commerce & Contracting: The Legal Implications Highway 1997," NCMA's Contract Management (December 1997), for which he won the Charles Delaney Award for Best Article; "Contracting Abroad: Rules and Remedies," NCMA's Contract Management (October 1997); "FEATURE COMMENT: Guidelines and Observations on the Procurement Integrity Rules Affecting the Hiring of Government Employees;" Federal Publications' The Government Contractor (January 1997); co-author of "Past Performance Evaluations," Federal Publications' Briefing Papers (May 1994); and "Restrictions on Consultant Services," Federal Publications' Briefing Papers (May 1990.)

From 1965 to 1966, Mr. Pushkar was a law clerk to the Honorable William J. Storey, Delaware Superior Court. From 1963 to 1966, he served as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Air Force at Dover, Delaware, then the Far East during the Vietnam Conflict, working as counsel on criminal, government contract and aircraft accident investigative proceedings, and the Status of Forces Treaty with Taiwan.