Ira E. Hoffman is a highly regarded legal adviser, advocate, author and speaker on government contracts, export controls, and other international law issues.  He is the editor of the forthcoming book, The Annotated Export Administration Regulations Desk Reference (West); the lead instructor for the Federal Publications Seminars/West  “International Government & Commercial Contracting” course; is an expert panelist on government contracts and export controls for the Legal Research Network’s Ethics & Compliance Alliance; and has taught International Trade Law and European Union Law as an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law.

Mr. Hoffman, who is Chair of Firm’s Government Contracts and International Practice Groups, has been practicing law for more than 25 years, focusing on the areas of government contracts, national security law, international trade law, international procurement, complex civil and administrative litigation, and alternative dispute resolution.  During that time, Mr. Hoffman has advised clients on bid protests, Requests for Equitable Adjustment (REA) and claims under the Contract Disputes Act (CDA),ethics and compliance, the False Claims Act (FCA), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the Defense FAR Supplement (DFARS) and other agency FAR supplements, the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and its International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), Foreign Military Sales (FMS), Foreign Military Financing (FMF), and Direct Commercial Contracts (DCC) programs, the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC) regulations, the Buy American Act (BAA), Trade Agreements Act (TAA), Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA), International Emergency Economics Powers Act (IEEPA), Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA), Byrd Amendment, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and anti-corruption conventions, anti-boycott compliance, Anti-Assignment Act and novations, suspension and debarment, audits and internal investigations, intellectual property rights, mergers & acquisitions, small business programs (e.g. the 8(a), Service-Disabled/Veteran-Owned (SDVO), Women-owned Small Business (WOSB), and HUBZone programs), teaming agreements, joint ventures, mentor-protege agreements, Administrative Procedure Act (APA), Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Federal fiscal law, cost allowability, security clearances, Foreign Ownership, Control and Influence (FOCI), international compliance, and other U.S. and international procurement issues.

Mr. Hoffman has represented clients in bid protests, claims, disputes, and negotiations with the U.S. Government in U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Boards of Contract Appeals (ASBCA & CBCA), the FAA's Office of Dispute Resolution for Acquisition (ODRA), the Departments of Defense (various components), Commerce (BIS, ITA & NOAA), State (DDTC), Treasury (OFAC), Homeland Security (CBP & ICE), Energy, Labor, Health & Human Services (CMS), Housing & Urban Development, Transportation (FHWA & MARAD), and Veterans Affairs; and with the General Services Administration (GSA), NASA, National Science Foundation, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), and the U.S. Postal Service.

Mr. Hoffman’s clients have ranged from defense contractors (e.g., General Dynamics' Electric Boat, Raytheon's E-Systems, Techno Sciences, PE Systems), to civilian contractors (e.g., PeopleSoft, Cotton & Company, Camber Corp., GlobalNet Services, Inc., Fox RPM), to foreign contractors (e.g., Hexagon AB, CAE, MacGregor (FIN) Oy, Israel Aerospace Industries, Israel Military Industries, El-Op, Elbit, Rafael).

Before joining Shulman Rogers, Mr. Hoffman served as a Court Law Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; as Counsel to the Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission; and as Counsel to the Israeli Ministry of Defense Mission to the United States.  He also practiced with the nationally prominent large law firms Fried Frank and Howrey & Simon.

News

• Ira Hoffman appointed to the Executive Advisory Council of the National Contract Management Association
• Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A. Announces New Shareholders
• Ira Hoffman Gets the Air Force to Award a Contract to a Firm Client
• Ira Hoffman Appointed to Newly Formed Advisory Board for Federal Publications Seminars
• Air Force Stands Down

Publications

• International Compliance: Mitigating Risk in FCPA and Other Cross-Border Transactions (co-author with Jacob Frenkel), 43 Maryland Bar Journal No. 4 at 33 (July/August 2010)
• Export Controls and Economic Sanctions, (co-author), 42 Int'l Law. 301, 2008
• Blowing the Whistle on Terror Funding, Baltimore Sun, 21A (Sept. 2, 2005), 2005
• Strategic Application of the New DFARS Rule on Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software to Major Defense Acquisition Systems, The Clause, April, 1996
• Legislative Regulation of Campaign Financing After "Citizens Against Rent Control v. City of Berkeley": A Requiem, 36 U. Miami Law Review, 563, 1982
• Economics Sections, Africa Contemporary Record, Vols. X-XII, 1981-1983
• Economics Sections, Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vols. I-III, 1980-1982

Events

• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
  June 24, 2010
• Ethics and Mandatory Disclosures in Government Contracting
  June 17, 2010
• Asian American Business Conference
  June 8, 2010
• International Traffic in Arms Regulation
  April 13, 2010
• International Government and Commercial Contracting
  March 23, 2010
• Leveraging Federal Funding
  March 10, 2010
• International Government Procurement Webinar
  January 19, 2010

Seminars & Speaking Engagements

• Webcast on "International Commercial Contracting" for Federal Publications Seminars/West LegalEdCenter, Dec. 16, 2009
• Webcast on "International Government Procurement" for Federal Publications Seminars/West LegalEdCenter, Dec. 8, 2009
• Webcast on "Do You Really Comply with the 'Deemed Exprt' Rules?" for the Legal Research Network's Ethics & Compliance Alliance, Dec. 3, 2009
• Seminar on "Current Status of the Recovery Act"  with Watkins Meegan, Sept. 17 & Oct. 2, 2009
• Webcast on "Government Contracting and the False Claims Act Amendments: Why Ethics Compliance is More Important that Ever" for the Legal Research Network's Ethics and Compliance Alliance, Aug. 26, 2009
• Seminar on "Changes & Equitable Adjustments in Government Contracts" for Federal Publications Seminars/NCMA Ft. Worth, May 20-21, 2009
• Seminar on "Strategic Alliances:  Avoiding Legal Pitfalls" for the Women Presidents' Education Organization, May 14, 2009
• Seminar on "Succeeding as a Government Contractor in a Challenging Economy" with Columbia Bank, Feb. 2, 2009
• Panelist, "Teaming Agreement/Partnership - If It Sounds Too Good to be True...." , Montgomery County Department of Economic Development, Small Business Assistance Conference, May 29, 2008
• Lead Instructor, Federal Publications Seminars/Thomson-Reuters/West, "International Government & Commercial Contracting"
• Adjunct Lecturer in Law, George Mason University School of Law, International Trade Law
• Adjunct Lecturer in Law, George Mason University School of Law, European Union Law
• Lecturer, National Contract Management Association, "Changes and Requests for Equitable Adjustments"
• Lecturer, American Bar Association, General Practice Section Annual Meeting, "The Federal Government's Growing Purchases of Commercial Items and Services"
• Lecturer, Federal Publications, Inc., "Foreign Military Sales"
• Instructor, London School of Economics, "Structure of International Society"
• Instructor, London School of Economics, "Foreign Policy Analysis"