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ALLAN H. GOODMAN

Allan H. Goodman was appointed as a Judge on the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals in 1993. From 1975 to 1993, Judge Goodman was an attorney in private practice. He has taught Construction Contract Law at the Georgetown University Law Center (1987- 2002) and Government Contract Law at the University of Richmond - T.C. Williams College of Law (1980-85) and the University of Virginia (Northern Virginia Extension)(1981-84).

Judge Goodman serves as a private arbitrator and mediator, and is an associate member of the Association for Conflict Resolution.. He became a member of the American Arbitration Association's Commercial Panel of Arbitrators in 1980, and has served on more than forty arbitration panels for the AAA. From 1989-92 he was a member of the D.C. Bar's Attorney-Client Arbitration Board which provides mediation and arbitration of fee disputes between attorneys and clients. From 1990-92 he was a member of the District of Columbia Superior Court Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Panel, where he arbitrated contract disputes.  Judge Goodman has mediated many complex disputes, including those arising from the Federal Triangle - Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., the Big Dig Project in Boston, Mass., and nuclear waste clean-up sites.

He is the author of BASIC SKILLS FOR THE NEW ARBITRATOR,  2nd Edition (SOLOMON PUBLICATIONS, 2004) and BASIC SKILLS FOR THE NEW MEDIATOR 2nd Edition (SOLOMON PUBLICATIONS, 2005). He is also a contributing author of ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR RESOLVING GOVERNMENT CONTRACT CONTROVERSIES (American Bar Association, 1999) and FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION DESKBOOK FOR PRACTITIONERS (American Bar Association, 1999).

Judge Goodman is a graduate of Georgetown University (B.S.F.S. cum laude, 1972) and the University of Toledo College of Law (J.D. 1974), where he was an associate editor of the Law Review. He is a member of the Bars of Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Maryland.