Clifton joined Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver’s litigation practice group in 2011. Immediately prior to joining Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, Clifton was in private litigation practice in Vienna, VA. He has extensive private practice civil litigation experience and has represented clients before a variety of federal courts and federal administrative agencies.
Clifton graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 2004 and Princeton University in 1997. While in law school, Clifton served as a law clerk in the U.S. Attorney's Offices for the Northern District of Illinois (Fall 2002) and the District of Massachusetts (Summer 2002).
Clifton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 1997. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 2004. During law school Clifton was a Senior Editor for the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and represented Northwestern Law on its Jessup International Law Moot Court Team.
Clifton’s publications have appeared in the Journal of International Law and Business and the Journal of International Maritime Law. His bar admissions include the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the State of Maryland. He is also admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver’s AV rated government contracts practice has been developed by lead partner Thomas Dunlap, over the last twelve years. Relying on its military experience, security clearances, and business background in conjunction with legal aspects allows DGW to help its clients on many levels at the same time. Tom (SuperLawyer top 2.5% and AVVO 210.0 rated) is a former Army officer (Armor/ Cavalry) and has been the lead attorney in a number of bid protests of all types and sizes, from a $485 million IDIQ protest to Court of Federal Claims disputes against the Navy. Tom is also the lead attorney for new government contracts. DGW is a veteran owned business and contracts with state and federal governments.
Tom has participated in:
- Tucker Act claims for government breaches of contract
- claims of fraud against the government
- bid protests
- qui tam cases
Tom's cases in include:
- Represented inventor of specialized sonar equipment in Tucker Act and fraud claims against the Department of the Navy.
- Represented international airlines and logistics companies in bid protest proceedings before the GAO alleging government bias in contract award decision.
- Represented employee of civilian contractor in claim related to falsified billing records and
- Represented employee of civilian contractor in claim related to falsified billing records and unsafe water treatment during the Iraq war.
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Rick is the President and CEO of Cloveer, Inc. He has spent the last twelve years guiding thousands of firms through the very complex Small Business Administration's 8a Application process.
Rick has over 20 years of federal government contracting experience working for Fortune 500 and 8a Certified Program participants. Rick worked as a federal contractor for various companies on IT and engineering projects within many Federal government agencies. Some of these agencies include the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), General Accounting Office (GAO), Health and Human Services (HHS) and United States Information Agency (USIA). His experience working as a federal contractor has given him the knowledge to understand the Federal Procurement processes.
Rick also has owned several other small businesses in the last 15 years and been involved in the sale of one of his existing businesses. He understands the processes and procedures of owning, operating and selling a small business along with personally experiencing many of the challenges and struggles that most small businesses go through.
Rick has intimate knowledge of the SBA 8a program rules and regulations and the SBA's Department of Program Certification Eligibility's (DPCE) Standard Operating Procedures. He is an expert on each individual element that comprises a successful SBA 8a Certification Application which can help ensure your SBA 8a Certification Application has the best chance for achieving formal SBA 8a certification.
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Barry Nelsen is founder and former President of Proxity Electronic Commerce Systems (PECS), and currently a contract specialist. Mr. Nelsen has been influential in the sales and marketing of information products and services since 1970. A leader in the design and sales of information products used by the U.S. Military, building systems for the DoD which replaced paper systems for much of the military’s procurement effort, Nelsen also built industry systems such as Haystack, FEDLOGS (for Department of Defense), and the ILI logistics system. Barry has been an innovator in developing scanning systems used to convert paper databases to digital form. Mr. Nelsen was the agent for Beyond.com selling the first enterprise-wide EC downloaded software to the DoD, this consisted of Microsoft products used by all DoD procurement and the Defense Logistics Agency. This sale was valued $50 million.
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Joseph Nocerino is the CEO and founder of Century Planning Associates, Inc. (Century), a professional competitive acquisition, project management and training company, established in 1972. Mr. Nocerino prepares, manages and guides customer acquisition planning and strategic assessments; manages/participates in proposal color team reviews; manages/leads acquisition capture teams; manages large scale competitive proposals; prepares cost/price best value proposal documents; and develops and delivers competitive business development training programs.
He is an industry leader in all aspects of competitive proposal preparation, having worked to support thousands of large and small enterprises. Mr. Nocerino has written books and many articles on various aspects of competitive proposal preparation, including; how to plan for, develop and win competitive acquisitions; prepare related win plans and develop convincing and substantive oral presentations.
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Jim Shanahan is the President of Financial Transaction Services of WPA, a national sales and marketing office of Financial Transaction Services, LLC, which sets up electronic payment processing systems for businesses specializing in B to B and B to G card payments. Mr. Shanahan has had extensive experience in dealing with GSA Contractors who have not had an opportunity to understand the benefits of being set up properly to take and send GSA SmartPay card payments, get much lower rate structures and meet the new Visa/ MasterCard PCI Compliance regulations.
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Clifton Holmes, Attorney at Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, PLLC
Thomas Dunlap, Partner at Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver
Rick Otero, President/CEO, Cloveer, Inc.
