Government Contracts in Plain English – Christoph Mlinarchik – S5E30

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Christoph Mlinarchik to the show!

Christoph is a former US federal contracting officer, former director of GovCon for a US defence contractor and is a qualified expert witness. Christoph is also an attorney, consultant and instructor. He has a wealth of experience negotiating, reviewing and managing billions of dollars of government contracts over the course of his career.

In addition to this, Christoph is a bestselling author of the ‘Government Contracts in Plain English’ series, focusing on topics of government contracting. Christoph is certainly a nationally recognised subject matter expert!

In this episode, we discuss the following:

• The inspiration behind writing 3 bestselling books, ‘Government Contracts in Plain English’
• What a federal contracting officer is and what they do
• How he SHOCKED the government contracting community with his controversial statement
• What lawyers need to know to protect and guide their clients in relation to US federal contracts law
• Tips on how can attorneys help their clients when negotiating the terms of federal subcontracts
• Traps, tricks and dangers when negotiating subcontracts