Dawnn E. Briddell
Associate
Duane Morris LLP
Suite 200
1940 Route 70 East
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
USA
Phone: +1 856 874 4273
Fax: +1 856 874 4633
Email:
dbriddell@duanemorris.com
Dawnn E. Briddell practices in the area of litigation with a concentration in public construction and local government. Ms. Briddell is an experienced trial litigator, serving as a former assistant district attorney for the Office of the DeKalb County District Attorney in Georgia, where she was assigned to the Interstate Child Support Enforcement Division. She also served as an assistant solicitor-general with the Dekalb County Solicitor-General's Office, where she was a senior trial attorney. She was later appointed a special assistant solicitor-general to serve as the first special domestic violence prosecutor handling high-risk offender cases.
Ms. Briddell represents municipalities, municipal authorities and school districts as counsel and special counsel in connection with public contracts bid solicitation and compliance and local governance. She assists municipal clients in creating bid specifications, responding to bid challenges and public contracts litigation, and awarding public contracts. She also assists clients in creating local legislation for effective governance.
Ms. Briddell is a 1986 graduate of the Rutgers University School of Law-Camden and a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland.
Areas of Practice
- Construction
- Municipal Law and Governance
- Real Estate
Representative Matters
- Represents a county improvement authority in public contract solicitation and procurement in a $150,000,000 justice complex renovations and expansion project.
- Successfully represented a county improvement authority on appeals from trial court decision affirming rejection of low bidders for failure to comply with owner-imposed mandatory bid specifications not statutorily required.
- Represents municipalities in public contract solicitation and procurement for infrastructure improvement projects, construction, goods and professional services.
Professional Activities
- American Bar Association
- Camden County Bar Association
- Georgia Bar Association
Admissions
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Georgia
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Court of Appeals of Georgia
- Supreme Court for the State of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- New Jersey Supreme Court
Education
- Rutgers School of Law - Camden, J.D., 1986
Experience
- Duane Morris LLP
- Associate, 2009-present - Wolf Block LLP
- Associate, 2006-2009
-- Appointed to 2008 WolfBlock Diversity Committee
-- Selected to participate in the 2009 New Jersey Law Firm Mentor-Mentee Program - Harvey C. Johnson, P.C.
- Associate, August 2005-December 2005 - Office of the DeKalb County, Georgia, District Attorney
- Assistant District Attorney, Interstate Child Support Enforcement Division, 2003-May 2005 - Office of the DeKalb County Solicitor-General
- Special Domestic Violence Prosecutor, 2002-2003
- Senior Trial Attorney, 1998-2003 - Harvey C. Johnson, P.C.
- Associate, 1991-1995 - Lewis & Wood, P.C.
- Associate, 1990-1991 - Caplan & Luber, P.C.
- Associate, 1989-1990 - Defenders' Association of Philadelphia
-Trial Attorney, 1987-1989 - Camden Regional Legal Services, Inc.
- Staff Attorney, 1986-1987
Civic and Charitable Activities
- Spokesperson, Concerned Parishioners of St. Bart's, 2008-present
- Challenged Diocese of Camden Church Closing Decision - Member, District IV Ethics Committee, State of New Jersey
- Board member, Food Bank of South Jersey
- Member, Winslow Township Rotary Club
Selected Speaking Engagements
- Speaker, Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Primer on Mechanics' Liens and Bond Claims, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 30, 2011
- Speaker, "Shaking the Money Tree: Funding Our Way Out of the Infrastructure Crisis," ABA Forum on the Construction Industry 2010 Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, April 22, 2010
