Seyfarth Government Contracts Practice Earns 3rd Consecutive Practice Group of the Year Honor from Law360

Law360 has once again selected Seyfarth’s Government Contracts practice as a 2025 Practice Group of the Year, following another year of significant wins, precedent‑shaping protests, and high‑profile transactions for major defense and government services clients. Seyfarth was similarly recognized in 2024 and 2023.

In its feature article, Law360 spotlighted the group’s successful year securing three complex protest victories at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), overturning $280 million in US Army task orders. The article also noted the group’s successful defense in three GAO protests involving $140 million in Defense Health Agency task orders, as well as the team’s role guiding a defense contractor QinetiQ US through the $31 million sale of its US intelligence business.

Practice co‑chair Amy Hoang emphasized the group’s integrated approach to government contracts and national security issues, an approach that proved essential in the QinetiQ transaction. She explained: “Every government contracts, mergers and acquisitions attorney has experienced deals where government contracts counsel is brought in at the 11th hour. QinetiQ understood the importance of integrating government contracts and national security counsel, really from day one of the process.”

Despite its sophisticated docket, Seyfarth’s Government Contracts practice remains intentionally lean, a structure Hoang says strengthens collaboration and agility across the group, noting: "There is a culture that we're happy to embrace new ideas and changes to the practice, and that really permeates to all levels of seniority within the group."

Reflecting on the firm's GAO protest victories, practice co‑chair Adam Lasky described the complexity of managing three overlapping protests at once, explaining: "It was a really complicated case, in part because it was dealing with different procurements under the solicitation. The record it received from the Army was almost intentionally confusing between the different procurements, requiring the Seyfarth team to race to analyze the information it received and put something in writing in its arguments."

Lasky also highlighted the team’s adoption of advanced litigation and document‑review tools to handle massive, fast‑moving protests, noting: “We are using tools I don't think anybody else is using, and we're able to get to documents and find things so much faster than I think our competition can.”

Practice Group of the Year is the latest high accolade this year for Seyfarth’s Government Contracts practice. Co-chair Adam Lasky was chosen as a 2025 MVP and partner Erica Bakies as a 2025 Rising Star by Law360.

Seyfarth’s Government Contracts practice assists government contractors of all sizes in navigating the complexities of doing business with the government, from day-to-day compliance matters to large-scale internal investigations, bid protests, and disputes in federal and state courts.

The full profile is available here.