Miles & Stockbridge is pleased to announce that Chambers USA, a go-to guide in the legal industry, has ranked the Government Contracts practice at Miles & Stockbridge in Band 1 on its list of “Highly Regarded” law firms nationwide for the fourth year in a row.

Sources interviewed by Chambers shared that the team provides “invaluable expertise” and “consistently produces high quality work on time.” Chambers further shares that Miles & Stockbridge is a “distinguished team of respected practitioners with notable experience of handling bid protests before the GAO” that “demonstrates substantial experience of advising clients on sizable transactions.”

In addition, C. Peter “Pete” Dungan, a principal and co-leader of the firm’s Government Contracts Practice and Army veteran, earned a national ranking for the third year in a row.

Pete Dungan, Principal

In its overview, Chambers recognizes Pete as a “notable practitioner” in the firm’s Government Contracts practice. He brings two decades of national security and public procurement law experience to bear for his clients. A litigator by training, he secures positive results for contractors in bid protests and contract claims against federal agencies as well as state, local, and educational (SLED) organizations.

In its 2024 overview, Chambers shared that Pete “draws from a wealth of experience to counsel clients on contracting matters, attracting particular praise for his abilities in bid protests and related litigation.”

Government Contracts Practice Group

The lawyers in the Government Contracts practice at Miles & Stockbridge have decades of experience helping clients of all sizes, across industries, doing business directly or indirectly with international, federal, state and local governments. They counsel on the full range of procurement issues, litigate successfully before international, federal, state and local forums and assist clients with transactions involving public and private organizations that do business with public entities.

They understand and operate at the cutting edge of developing areas of procurement and grant law. Some examples include counseling on recent developments in domestic content regulations, export controls, FEMA Public Assistance grants, organizational conflicts of interest, security and cybersecurity, small business issues, and technical data rights. They are engaged in innovative public-private partnerships and renewable energy initiatives, including procurement, grant, tax credit, labor, and domestic content issues involved in hydrogen, solar, and wind projects. Each client works with the lawyer or team of lawyers best suited to efficiently and effectively handle—and resolve—each matter.

Lawyers in the Government Contracts practice consult with colleagues in the firm’s corporate, environmental, labor, IP, litigation, real estate, tax, business torts and white-collar practices, among others, to assemble a team of the most directly knowledgeable lawyers to address each client’s issues. Their bench includes former government procurement lawyers, a principal who served in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, a trial lawyer who has litigated some of the largest and most complex contract claims against the federal government and a former general counsel of a significant government contractor.

About Chambers USA

Chambers USA ranks the leading firms and lawyers in an extensive range of practice areas throughout America. The research is in-depth and client focused and the guide is read by industry-leading companies and organizations throughout the U.S. and worldwide. It is also widely used by law firms for referral purposes.

About Miles & Stockbridge

Miles & Stockbridge is an Am Law 200 law firm with approximately 200 lawyers and eight offices across Maryland and in Virginia, Washington, D.C. and New York. The firm’s lawyers help global, national, local and emerging business clients preserve and create value by helping them solve their most challenging problems. For more information, please visit our website and follow Miles & Stockbridge on LinkedIn, Facebook and X.