Kent G. Huntington is Vice President and General Counsel of M.E.N.A. Bridge Advisors. As an advisor, counselor, and trial attorney with nearly twenty years of experience, Mr. Huntington has provided business and legal advice to corporations, non-profits and U.S. government agencies involved in virtually every type of legal forum—judicial, administrative and legislative. Mr. Huntington is particularly experienced in the areas of government contracts, international trade, insurance, U.S. administrative law and procedure and managing litigation/arbitration.

Mr. Huntington presently serves as the Director of Litigation and Trial Advocacy Programs for the Institute for U.S. Law, a non-profit academic and research institute in Washington, D.C.  IUSLAW exports the best of the U.S. legal tradition to promote the Rule of Law internationally.  IUSLAW sponsors research projects, course work, seminars and summer programs for foreign lawyers, judges, professors and advanced law students, bridging U.S. legal principles across the international legal community.

Mr. Huntington has a full command of all of the phases of litigation—from the outset of a government investigation through trial and appellate decision. Over the course of his career, Mr. Huntington has represented clients before courts, legislative committees and federal agencies. As a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice for nearly a decade, Mr. Huntington served as the first-chair counsel for the U.S. government in hundreds of legal matters. He litigated legal issues of first impression, defended the government in contract disputes and international trade cases, and briefed and argued numerous appellate cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His Justice Department experience specifically included procurement protests, contract actions, government audits, informational technology cases, construction claims, customs fraud investigations and prosecutions, False Claims Act (“FCA”) litigation, antidumping and countervailing duty grievances, federal agency compliance issues, Fair Labor Standards Act violations, federal personnel actions, veterans’ claims and federal pay cases. Additionally, Mr. Huntington has extensive experience with export-import trade issues and with the many U.S. regulatory schemes, which govern companies involved in international transactions.

As an attorney in private practice, Mr. Huntington specialized in general commercial law matters and business litigation, with a particular emphasis upon insurance coverage disputes, reinsurance recovery actions, environmental impairment claims and securities fraud cases.

Mr. Huntington is admitted to the Bar Associations of the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland.  He earned his law degree at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law, and he obtained his undergraduate degree at Union College, where he majored in Political Science.  Mr. Huntington is recognized member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the American political science honor society. 

SELECTED LEGAL CASES AND ARTICLES

Attorney of Record:  Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd. v. United States, 529 F.3d 1352 (Fed. Cir. 2008); Augustine v. Veterans Affairs, 429 F.3d 1334 (Fed. Cir. 2006); Martin v. Veterans Affairs, 412 F.3d 1258 (Fed. Cir. 2005); Crawford v. Dep’t of Transportation, 373 F.3d 1155 (Fed. Cir. 2004); Simpson v. Office of Personnel Management, 347 F.3d 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2004); Comtrol, Inc. v. United States, 294 F.3d 1333 (Fed. Cir. 2002); Willis v. United States Postal Serv., (Fed. Cir. 2001); Dick v. OPM, 216 F.3d 1353 (Fed. Cir. 2000); Smith v. West, 214 F.3d 1331 (Fed. Cir. 2000); San Vicente Camalu SPR de RI v. United States, 473 F. Supp. 2d 1349 (CIT 2007); Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd. v. United States, 473 F. Supp. 2d (CIT 2007); Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd. v. United States, 403 F. Supp. 2d 1287 (CIT 2005); San Vicente Camalu SPR de RI v. United States, 366 F. Supp. 2d 1373 (CIT 2005); United States v. Owatonna Recognition, Inc., 196 F. Supp. 2d 1315 (CIT 2002); Jordan v. United States, 77 Fed. Cl. 565 (2007); Distributed Solutions, Inc. v. United States, 76 Fed. Cl. 524 (2007); Dachman v. United States, 73 Fed. Cl. 508 (2006); Conner Bros. Constr. Co. v. United States, 65 Fed. Cl. 657 (2005); Kropp Holdings, Inc. v. United States, 63 Fed. Cl. 537 (2005); Mexican Intermodal Equip., S.A. de C.V. v. United States, 61 Fed. Cl. 55 (2004); Taylor v. United States, 57 Fed. Cl. 313 (2003); Jones v. United States, 52 Fed. Cl. 200 (2002); Spehr v. United States, 51 Fed. Cl. 69 (2001); Northrop Grumman Corp. & Lockheed Martin Corp. v. United States, 50 Fed. Cl. 443 (2001); Flying Horse v. United States, 49 Fed. Cl. 419 (2001); Comtrol, Inc. v. United States, 49 Fed. Cl. 294 (2001); Aero Union Corp. v. United States, 47 Fed. Cl. 677 (2000); Es-Ko, Inc. v. United States, 44 Fed. Cl. 429 (1999).   

Articles:  Co-author, The Rise of E-Commerce Claims, Mealey’s Litigation Reporter (1999); Author, The Final Judgment Rule in Federal Court, Md. App. Practice, State & Federal, MICPEL (1997).