Kathryn "Katie" Muldoon Griffin

Kathryn (Katie) Griffin represents contractors across a range of industries on federal, state, and private projects involving construction, government contracts, and white collar issues. She has experience in representing construction, engineering, and technology firms in resolving contract claims and disputes with the federal government and prime-subcontractor disputes on federal and federally-funded projects.

Katie works with national and international construction and engineering firms on major contracting issues including defective specifications, differing site conditions, constructive changes, contractor performance evaluations, and liquidated damages. Clients rely on her depth of experience in claim analysis and presentation and effectiveness in working with technical experts, scheduling experts, and cost and pricing experts.

Katie has extensive experience representing defense contractors with respect to government cost accounting issues, covering among other issues government proposed disallowances of executive compensation and broad-based employee compensation (including the costs associated with health and welfare benefits).

She also has experience assisting government contractors with a full spectrum of other contracting issues including those involving audits and investigations and procurement fraud allegations. Her experience includes assisting contractors in developing and evaluating their ethics and compliance programs, as well as representing contractors who have been suspended or proposed for debarment. She is also experienced in the conduct of internal investigations and employee interviews pertaining to compliance issues and in support of independent monitor engagements.

Katie co-taught a Cost & Pricing course as an adjunct professor at George Washington University School of Law from 2014-2020. She has published on several aspects of government contracting, with a recent focus on decisions and rules regarding contractor performance evaluations. She served as the immediate past President of the Board of Contract Appeals Bar Association (BCABA) in 2018; and served as the BCABA President and Vice President in 2017 and 2016, respectively. She was recently named to DCA Live’s 2022 Emerging Women Leaders in Private Practice in Washington, D.C.