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Shareholder
Areas of Practice
Mr. Silberman is a member of the firm's Construction Law,
Government Contracts and Employment Law Practice
Groups.
Professional Qualifications
Mr. Silberman has specialized in construction and public contracts advice and litigation since 1992. He has represented contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in the construction, defense, technology, and service industries, and, in construction, construction managers and owners as well. His experience includes contracts for federal, state and local public entities and for private, commercial projects. He has helped clients evaluate, negotiate and draft solicitations, proposals and bids; negotiated and evaluated proposed contract terms; litigated bid protests of public contract awards; investigated and litigated claims for delay, disruption, payment, defects, and fraud or false claims; and advised and represented clients in connection with contract terminations, suspension and debarment, bond requirements, mechanics liens and other payment issues, and disabled access issues.
Mr. Silberman has spoken and published articles on a wide variety of construction and government contracts law subjects, including false claims, terminations, prime-subcontractor payment issues, Building Information Modeling (BIM), green building, IT procurements, abandonment/cardinal change claims, disabled access, and licensing.
Mr. Silberman is a leader in several prominent construction and government
contracts organizations. He is co-chair of the ABA Public Contract Law Section’s Construction Division (and a former chair of its Procurement Fraud and Strategic Alliances, Teaming and Subcontracting Committees). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Bay Area District of AGC-California, a former chair of its Legal Advisory Committee and a former member of its Executive Committee. He also serves as co-chair of the Design Professional Liability Subcommittee of the ABA Litigation Section's Construction Committee (and a past chair of its Public Construction and Damages Committees), and a member of the Steering Committee of the Specialty Trade Contractors & Suppliers Division of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry. He is also an active member of the ITAA’s IT Accessibility Regulation Task Force (disabled access issues for public contracts).
Mr. Silberman has also advised clients and handled litigation of employment issues, primarily relating to alleged disability discrimination, but also including wage and hour, whistleblower retaliation, wrongful termination, race and pregnancy discrimination, trade secret misappropriation, and commissions issues.
Education
J.D., University of California
Los Angeles Law School, 1992
With Honors; Editor, Environmental Law Review
B.B.A., University of Michigan,
1989
With Honors
Bar Admissions
California - 1992
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Practices
Construction Law
Government Contracts
Employment Law
Recent Publications
Green Building: Federal, State, and Local Governments LEED the Way (PDF)
The Procurement Lawyer, Vol. 43, No. 3, Spring '08 by Aaron P. Silberman
The Future Is Now, or Is It? Today's and Tomorrow's Issues for General Contractors in the Use of Building Information Modeling (PDF)
California Constructor, Volume 37, No. 8, August 2007
by Aaron P. Silberman and
The Supreme Court Raids the Public Disclosure Bar: Cleaning Up After Rockwell International v. United States (PDF)
The Procurement Lawyer, Vol. 42, No. 4, Summer '07 by
by David F. Innis and Aaron P. Silberman
No License? No Problem! Court Limits Public Agencies' Ability to Reject Bids Listing Unlicensed Subcontractors (PDF)
AGC California Legal Briefs Issue 07-03, April 2007 by Aaron P. Silberman
Contact
Robert Dollar Building, 10th Floor
311 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415.365.5339
Fax: 415.956.6457
asilberman@rjo.com
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