Senior Counsel, Washington DC
1900 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006-1108

TEL: 202.496.7628
FAX: 202.496.7756
EMAIL: sdees@mckennalong.com

PROFILE

Stanley Dees is Senior Counsel in McKenna Long & Aldridge's Washington, DC office. He joined the firm in 1963 and has served twice as Chair of the Government Contracts Department. His practice encompasses counseling and litigation in the field of government contracts and related areas.

Mr. Dees has counseled, litigated, and lectured in many areas including contract formation and negotiation; issues in commercialization and privatization; rights in technical data; schedule contracts; ADP and telecommunications procurements; claims preparation under supply, construction, and shipbuilding contracts; debarment and suspension proceedings; procurement fraud investigations and qui tam cases; contractor self-governance and compliance programs; defective pricing; cost recovery; and equitable adjustments. He has authored numerous articles on these and other government contract issues.

For more than forty years, Mr. Dees has engaged in substantial litigation before the boards of contract appeals, federal district courts, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has pursued bid protest actions before the Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He also represents contractors and subcontractors in disputes between contractors, both in litigation and under alternative dispute resolution procedures.  He represents contractors in classified matters.

At Princeton University, Mr. Dees received his degree with honors in the fields of European history and French literature. At the University of Virginia School of Law, he was a member of the board of editors of the Virginia Law Review and received the Order of the Coif. He served as president of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, 1978-80. Mr. Dees is an honorary faculty member of the U.S. Army JAG School and has been a lecturer at the University of Virginia Law School.

Commendations:

Legal Times:  “If there is a dean of the government contracts bar, most would agree the title goes to C. Stanley Dees.”  (November 1, 2004)

Chambers USA:  Senior statesman in Government Contracts.  “Stanley Dees is a ‘legend’ whose deep knowledge of the law and vast experience continues to hold sway over the marketplace.”  (2005)

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