Peter B. Hutt II advises clients on a broad range of federal government contract issues, including contract disputes and claims, terminations, cost allowability and allocability issues, contract formation, contract financing issues, price reduction issues and subcontracting and small business issues. Mr. Hutt has litigated significant contract matters in the Court of Federal Claims and the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
Mr. Hutt has also litigated more than a dozen False Claims Act cases, including many qui tam matters, alleging Iraqi procurement fraud, cost misallocation, quality assurance deficiencies, substandard products, defective pricing and false certifications. Mr. Hutt is the former chair of the Procurement Fraud Committee of the ABA Section of Public Contract Law, and he writes frequently on the False Claims Act. In June 2008, he testified before Congress concerning proposed amendments to the False Claims Act.
Mr. Hutt served as the senior articles editor of the Stanford Law Review. He was a law clerk for Judges William W Schwarzer and Vaughn R. Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Mr. Hutt’s representative experience includes—
- trying a $100 million breach claim before the Court of Federal Claims
- litigating a False Claims Act case based on alleged TINA violations
- trying an $80 million claim concerning surplus pension assets under CAS 413
- contesting several default and convenience terminations
- litigating claims concerning accounting treatment of refunds of state taxes.
Mr. Hutt’s published works include “The False Claims Correction Act of 2007,” The Procurement Lawyer (2008); chapters on “Liability” and “Damages” in False Claims in Construction Contracts, ABA Forum on the Construction Industry; “Techniques for Resolving False Claims Act Cases Through Mediation,” The Procurement Lawyer (co-author, 2003); and Qui Tam Litigation Under the False Claims Act, Second Edition, ABA Section of Public Contract Law (coauthor and editor, 1999). He has been quoted on the False Claims Act in The National Law Journal, Business Week, Bloomberg, Forbes, Compliance Week and Congress Now, among others.
Mr. Hutt is the incoming committee chair of Boy Scout Troop 8 in Bethesda, Maryland, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sidwell Friends School and a trustee of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.