Phone: 601.713.1192

 

 

Lynn Patton Thompson
Navigation

Lynn Patton Thompson

Licensed in: Mississippi, Georgia & Virginia
Direct Dial: 601.987.4821
Direct Fax: 601.713.9921
Cell: 601.672.7508
lynn.thompson@bisclaw.com

Areas of Practice

Practice Description

Lynn Thompson has practiced extensively in the areas of government contracts (federal, state, and local), construction law, commercial litigation, and small business consulting for nearly 20 years. She represents prime contractors, subcontractors, owners, and suppliers in all aspects of construction, construction-defect, and contract-related matters, including contract drafting and negotiation, business planning, disputes, claims and appeals, bid protests, litigation, arbitration, and mediation.

Lynn represents large and small businesses that do business with the federal and state governments. She has extensive experience in bid protests at the General Accountability Office and the Court of Federal Claims and in protests before the U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Hearings and Appeals. She also represents contractors in disputes, claims, and other aspects of contract administration. Her prior experience as an attorney-advisor with the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. provides a unique perspective for representing clients in the private sector.

Lynn also focuses on special small business programs, including the HUBZone Program, 8(a) Program, Women-Owned Small Business Program, Mentor-Protégé Program, and the Veteran-Owned and Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business Concern programs. She regularly consults with businesses that desire to participate in these programs and assists them with business planning, certification, contract drafting, compliance, and protests. She has a national base of clients, from all over the Southeast, Hawaii, Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas and states in-between.

Lynn is a certified mediator on the Mississippi State Bar's List of Mediators.

Activities & Affiliations

  • Licensed in Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia
  • Member – Capital Area Bar Association, Mississippi Bar Association,
    American Bar Association, State Bar of Georgia and Virginia State Bar
  • Member – ABA Forum on the Construction Industry
  • Mississippi Secretary of State Uniform Commercial Code and Debtor – Creditor Study Group (2010)
  • Author: "A History of Enactment and Significant Amendments to the False Claims Act", False Claims in Construction Contracts: Federal, State and Local, Charles M. Sink and Krista L. Pages, Editors (2007)
  • Co-author: “Waivers, Releases and Project End Change Orders” presented at the ABA Forum on Construction Industry’s 2002 Annual Meeting
  • Co-author: “Claims for Lost Labor Productivity,” The Construction Lawyer (April 2000)
  • Co-author: Contractor’s Desk Book on Mississippi Law (1996)
  • Co-author: “Equitable Adjustments in Federal Government Contracts” (1996)
  • Recurring contributor to Construction Mississippi Magazine

Educational & Professional Background

  • B.A. summa cum laude, Emory University (1988)
  • J.D., Emory University School of Law (1992)
  • U.S. Department of Commerce (1992-1995)
  • Special Assistant United States Attorney, Washington, D.C. (1995)
  • Admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Mississippi, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; Court of Federal Claims; United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Previous attorney