Hon. Carol Park-Conroy (Ret.) has over 35 years of experience as a litigator, judge, and neutral in government contracts and commercial cases. While serving as a trial judge on the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) for 22 years, she presided over a broad range of construction and commercial disputes arising from manufacturing, service, supply, and other business contracts with the federal government. She is highly skilled at managing cases with complex factual and legal issues.
Judge Park-Conroy has extensive experience as a mediator, neutral case evaluator, and arbitrator and became one of the most sought-after dispute resolution neutrals at the ASBCA. She is recognized for her ability to quickly comprehend complex facts and focus parties on pivotal issues and is known for her thorough preparation, perseverance, and commitment to efficient resolution of disputes. As one corporate counsel in a mediation put it, “she knows how to keep the parties talking.”
Representative Matters
- Business/Commercial
- Disputes involving specialized business sectors such as computer science and information systems, research and development, technology, and aerospace and other businesses supplying manufactured products and commodities, such as food stocks, computers, aircraft, vehicles, vehicle parts and equipment, services for professional office, technical, and management support, health care personnel, and custodial, maintenance, and security workers
- Successfully mediated complex claims valued in excess of $2 billion relating to an Army contract for logistics modernization with a computer services company with issues relating to contract interpretation and clause renegotiations, extra work, cost allocation and accounting, unrecovered investment in software, breach of intellectual property license rights, contract extensions and renewal terms
- Mediated to settlement prime, subcontractor, and government disputes in excess of $150 million relating to aircraft purchase terms and conditions and costs incurred due to termination of aerial refueling tanker contract
- Settled delay claims associated with provision of security escorts for vehicle recovery convoys in Iraq
- Contracts
- Disputes involving contract formation, interpretation, performance and breach and fraud involving primes, subcontractors and joint ventures arising in manufacturing, service and supply contracts with related issues: including contract cost accounting and defective pricing, formation, Department of Labor wage rates and labor standards, with some surety, bankruptcy, and environmental remediation
- Resolved False Claims Act case brought by Department of Justice involving occupational conflicts of interest following remand to district court by D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
- Settled contractor claims for extra contractual aircraft maintenance work pending at the ASBCA and federal government civil fraud case pending in U.S. District Court in combined mediation
- Successfully mediated contract interpretation claims totaling $150 million for F-22 aircraft tail-up costs
- Mediated to settlement disputes involving contract interpretation and differing site conditions in environmental cleanup, Military Munitions Response Program
- Construction
- Disputes involving housing, both new construction and renovation, buildings, including training facilities, hospitals, and aircraft hangers, water facility projects such as well drilling, water mains and pipelines, and major civil works projects, including roads, bridges, ocean piers, locks, dams and dredging
- Mediated to settlement contractor and owner claims involving defective specifications, delay, changes and defective work in construction of Washington D.C. office building
- Successfully mediated disputes valued at $75 million associated with construction of the Seven Oaks Dam in California
- Served as neutral in six-week proceeding and resolved $40 million in disputes arising from multiple contracts for demolition and construction of housing units
- Settled claims for delay, acceleration, and changed work in construction of pier at Naval Submarine Base, Groton, CT
- Resolved claims relating to fabrication and installation of removable spillway weir at Lower Monumental Lock and Dam
- Special Master/Discovery Referee
- Responsible for all pretrial matters on ASBCA docket, including issuance of comprehensive pretrial scheduling orders, protective orders, rulings on privilege, and discovery disputes
