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Barbara A. Duncombe has over 20 years of general practice and dispute resolution experience with particular focus on government contracts and the health care sector.
With respect to her government contracts practice, Ms. Duncombe works with clients to address questions or problems with public contract formation, performance, administration, payment and dispute resolution. She has represented prime contractors, subcontractors, and public buyers. Her practice includes analysis of contract problems and their resolution through claims, discussion, and dispute processes including all forms of Alternate Disputes Resolutions as well as litigation before Federal and state courts, boards of contract appeals, and the GAO.
Ms. Duncombe also works closely with corporate health care clients to execute planning, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures and other business arrangements, including compliance with Medicare/Medicaid, anti-kickback and physician self-referral rules.
Ms. Duncombe understands the challenges presented to the rapidly changing health care industry and is dedicated to counseling her health care clients on regulatory compliance, restructuring and employment issues. In addition, she counsels a variety of health care-related providers, including physician groups, hospital-based physicians, dental practices, diagnostic facilities, home health entities, clinics, surgery centers, long term care facilities, hospitals, insurers, health care professionals, and other health care institutions and organizations in the areas of general corporate matters, antitrust, tax, restructurings, financings, labor and employment law, real estate transactions, and other legal issues related to health care.
Formerly the Director of the George Washington University Law School Government Contracts Program, Ms. Duncombe lectures nationally and internally on government contract and procurement issues for the law school’s continuing legal education program, the United Nations, UNICEF, the World Bank, and the Panama Canal Commission as well as providing in-house representation for many corporate clients.
Ms. Duncombe has a Bachelor of Arts degree from American University, School of International Service, in cross-cultural communications and received her Juris Doctorate degree from the George Washington University Law School, with honors, in 1980. She practiced in Washington, D.C., always in the area of Government contracts, after she clerked before the then-U.S. Court of Claims in 1980, until she moved to Dayton in 1998. Since then she has continued her practice from Dayton but commutes, as needed, to the Capital city.
She retains her District of Columbia Bar membership (since 1980) as well as being a member of the Ohio Bar (since 1999). She is a member of the American Bar Association, Public Contract Law Committee including the Procurement Fraud and Debarment & Suspension Committees. |
