Federal White Collar Crime Lawyers Washington DC

Watson & Associates’ government contractor white-collar defense practice is gaining the reputation as the go-to law firm for federal government contractors facing investigations, indictments or preparing for trial in procurement fraud cases.

We built this reputation by defending small businesses and large defense contractors highest-profile criminal prosecutions and government contract fraud investigations. Our group of white collar crime lawyers is known for their in-depth knowledge and experience in the various aspects of procurement law that lead to white collar criminal prosecution.  Watson’s white collar crime lawyers aim to get favorable resolutions before a criminal indictment. We look at the facts and give you open and honest legal opinions as to the next steps.   Types of cases we defend include:

• Government contractor conspiracy charges
• Wire fraud defense
• SBA small business fraud
• Bid rigging and cross-charging 
• Major fraud against the United States
• Small business programs ( HUBZone, 8(a) and SDVOSB programs

We defend individual and federal contractor clients in all manner of white collar prosecutions, government investigations, and other government contractor criminal matters. With a team assembled from former government contracting officials, military JAGs and other attorneys from the public sector, we are trial-ready litigators with decades of experience in court. 

Our white collar crime attorneys possess extensive subject-matter knowledge in a host of heavily procurement regulated areas, including Trade Agreements Act (TAA compliance), Buy American Act compliance, False Claims Act, Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FAR), SBA regulations, to name a few.