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

TEL: 202.496.7260
FAX: 202.496.7756
EMAIL: ssorett@mckennalong.com

PROFILE

Stephen M. Sorett is an attorney in the Washington, DC office of McKenna Long & Aldridge focusing on all phases of government contracting with an emphasis on outsourcing, privatization, and project finance transactions. For many years he has dealt with all aspects of the public contracting process at the federal, state, and local levels of government; and his experience includes contract formation, administration, claims, appeals, audit resolution and overall project management of complex project.

Mr. Sorett has more than 30 years of acquisition experience in all phases of government contracting, having worked in government first at the U.S. General Accounting Office and then as an Assistant General Counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He then entered the private sector with the international accounting firm of Touche Ross & Co. where he coordinated the privatization and infrastructure finance practice. After serving as the head of the legal department of AAI Corporation in Baltimore, a high-tech defense contractor, and then the Vice President of Contracts for ICF Kaiser International, Inc., Mr. Sorett became the Curriculum Director for George Washington University Law School's Government Contracts Program as well as its Environmental Program. He then became the Director of the Government Contracts practice at Grant Thornton, LLP before returning to the practice of law.

He is recognized for his work in the field of public contracts, privatization, outsourcing and alternative service delivery and has actively participated in more than 300 such projects covering wastewater treatment works, drinking water systems, resource recovery plants, light rail and intermodal transportation projects, correctional facilities, medical systems, educational services, and municipal buildings. At the federal level, Mr. Sorett has served as Chairman of over a dozen national conferences on Federal Privatization including some hosted by the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships, an organization co-founded by Mr. Sorett in 1985. In addition, Mr. Sorett teaches the course on OMB Circular A-76 for several organizations including Federal Publications, the A-76 Institute, and the George Washington University's Law School.

Mr. Sorett is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in American Education.

Mr. Sorett graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in American Studies and received his law degree from George Washington University . He is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia and he is admitted to numerous Federal Courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.