My Sixty Years as a Public Contract Lawyer: The Enriching Life of George Martin Coburn: 1923 - 2011
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 147000867X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 418 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book recounts my personal life from birth in 1923 to 2011 and my professional life for 60 years as a public contract lawyer from 1949 to 2011. I had Army service in intelligence and counter-intelligence work in 1944 and 1945 in England, France and Germany. We persuaded the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals to enforce a tentative $62M settlement of a shipbuilding claim on the basis of equitable estoppel, a major precedent. The professional life starts in the Navy's Office of the General Counsel from 1949 to 1962. Among other cases, I litigated a defective pricing claim, the award of a major Navy shipbuilding contract, overturning the debarment of company officers, overturning the Navy's revocation of its acceptance of production aircraft engines for an alleged latent defect, the default termination of a construction contract and the takeover surety, and the termination of a large indefinite quantity contract due to a negligent estimate of the excessive anticipated quantities to be ordered. In 1959 Don Ellington and I began living in a committed relationship until his death in 2005. Following the usual protracted procedures for competitive bidding would have prevented that outcome. I stipulated the facts in a court case challenging the legality of the Navy's revocation of