Laura Semple

Experience

1. Assistant General Counsel

   Amentum

   Feb 2020 — Present

   Laura Semple serves as Assistant General Counsel for Amentum, where she provides advice on Government contracting and corporate law matters. Ms. Semple previously worked as an associate at Smith Pachter McWhorter, PLC, where she counseled Government contractors on cost and pricing issues and resolved claims related to disallowed costs, CAS noncompliances, and accounting cost impacts. Ms. Semple counseled Government contractors on compliance with mandatory disclosure obligations, incurred cost submissions, and other Government reporting requirements. Ms. Semple is a frequent speaker on Government Contracts Cost & Pricing issues, teaching the Cost Allowability course for Federal Publications Seminars. Ms. Semple taught the Cost & Pricing course as an adjust professor at the George Washington University Law School. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the ABA Accounting, Cost & Pricing Committee and as Vice-Chair of the National Defense Industrial Association Legal Committee (Procurement Division). She also served as President of the Boards of Contract Appeals Bar Association.

Education

• The George Washington University Law School

  J.D.

  2011 — 2014

• University of Maryland

  B.A., Government and Politics & American Studies; Humanities and Social Sciences

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• Hearings
• Arbitration
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Family Law
• Courts
• Westlaw
• Legal Issues
• Lexis
• Dispute Resolution
• Criminal Law
• Legal Research
• Motions
• Appeals
• Mediation
• Trials
• Administrative Law