BARBARA A. DUNCOMBE
bduncombe@kalbianhagerty.com
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.
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