Tara Hopkins
* Admitted only in District of Columbia; admission to Virginia pending.
Tara Hopkins represents contractors across a range of industries on all aspects of government contracting.
She advises her clients about federal procurement matters, with a focus on bid protests at the U.S. Government Accountability Office and Court of Federal Claims, corporate ethics and compliance, internal investigations, and claims and disputes. Tara assists clients in a variety of additional procurement issues, including corporate due diligence, domestic preference compliance, and disputes before the Boards of Contract Appeals.
- ABA Public Contracts Law Section, Bid-Protest Committee, Vice Chair
- ABA Public Contracts Law Section, Commercial Products and Services Committee, Vice Chair
- Nominated as one of Bloomberg Law’s "They’ve Got Next: Five Fresh Faces to Know in Government Contracts," 2023
Education
J.D., Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 2017, Chief Managing Editor, Ohio State Journal on Criminal Law, Moot Court Travel Team
B.A., Political Science, Ohio State University, 2012, cum laude
Clerkships
Extern to the Honorable Michael H. Watson, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, 2015
Admissions
District of Columbia
Ohio
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
U.S. Court of Federal Claims
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Jonathan Shaffer, Counsel Dan Ramish and Senior Associate Tara Hopkins authored an article for Law360 following a Federal Circuit decision in Percipient.ai Inc. v. U.S. Read an excerpt below: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's decision in Percipient.ai Inc. v. U.S. is garnering widespread attention for changing certain rules about who has standing to [...]