BARBARA DUNCOMBE practices in the area of Government Contracts Law, representing clients regionally and nationally. For over 25 years, Barbara has worked 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 experience focuses on analysis of contract problems and their resolution through discussion, claims, and other dispute forums/processes including Alternative Dispute Resolution as well as litigation before the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Boards of Contract Appeals as well as Federal and state courts. 
 
Formerly the Director of the George Washington University Law School Government Contracts Program, she lectures nationally and internationally 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. She practiced in Washington, D.C., after she clerked before the then-U.S. Court of Claims, until she moved to Dayton. Ms. Duncombe is a member of the American Bar Association, Public Contract Law Committee including the Procurement Fraud and Debarment & Suspension Committees. Ms. Duncombe earned her undergraduate degree from American University, School of International Services, and her law degree, with honors, from the George Washington University Law School.