• Government Contracts
• Construction
• Governance, Compliance and Internal Controls

Marshall Doke was described in 2007 by Lawdragon Magazine, a leading lawyer-ranking publication, as "the Nation's top government contract lawyer," and in 2011 as having "an unrivaled tandem of trial skills and government contracts mastery." He was included in the 2006 through 2011 editions of Lawdragon's 500 Leading Lawyers in America (including all practice areas). Mr. Doke was described in 2008 in another international lawyer-ranking publication, Chambers USA, as a "legend of the profession," and he was recognized in Chambers USA from 2006 through 2011 as one of the "senior statesmen" of the government contracts bar. In 2012, he was listed in Texas Super Lawyers. Mr. Doke has testified as a government contracts expert before committees of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

In 2005, Mr. Doke was appointed by the Administrator of the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy to the Acquisition Advisory Panel composed of recognized experts in government acquisition law and policy and charged with studying the federal procurement system and making recommendations for improvement (the report is available on the Acquisition Advisory Panel’s website). Mr. Doke also was appointed in 2007 by Chief Judge Edward Damich to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Advisory Council. In 2011, he was named chair of the American Bar Association’s Audit Committee after having been elected to a new three-year term on the Committee by the ABA Board of Governors.

Mr. Doke represents clients in litigating and counseling with respect to all types of federal, state and local government contracts in matters such as claims, disputes, procurement protests, changes, breach of contract, suspension and debarment, contract interpretation, contract terminations, fraud, defective pricing, cost accounting standards, and Medicare and Medicaid claims, as well as issues related to small businesses, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Buy American Act and the False Claims Act.

Mr. Doke has a national practice and has represented some of the leading government contractors in the country and many small business concerns as well as federal, state and local agencies. Those clients include:

• Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
• Dallas County Hospital District
• Raytheon Co.
• Texas Instruments Inc.
• The University of Texas System
• U.S. Department of the Treasury Bureau of the Public Debt
• URS Corp.
• Vought Aircraft Industries Inc.

• LL.B., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, high honors (1959)
  • Editor-in-Chief, Southwest Law Journal
• B.A., Hardin-Simmons University, magna cum laude (1956)

• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Member, American Bar Association
  • Chair/Member, Standing Committee on Audit
  • Former Member, Board of Governors
  • Former Chairman and Current Council Member, Public Contract Law Section
  • Former Member, House of Delegates (1974-2003)
  • Former Chair, Conference of Section & Division Delegates
• Member, Acquisition Advisory Panel, Office of Management and Budget
• Member, Advisory Council, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
• Former General Counsel, Army Contract Adjustment Board
• Former President and Member of Board of Governors, Boards of Contract Appeals Bar Association
• Former President and Member of Board of Governors, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association
• Former President, American Bar Retirement Association
• Former Co-Chairman, National Conference of Lawyers and Certified Public Accountants
• Former Member, Board of Governors, Federal Circuit Bar Association
• American Arbitration Association National Roster of Neutrals (Commercial Panel)

• Recognized, The Best Lawyers in America (Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith eds., Woodward/White, Inc.) (2013)
  • Commercial Litigation
• Recognized, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (Tom Wicker ed., Chambers & Partners) (2005-2012)
  • Government: Government Contracts [Nationwide]
• Recognized, Texas Super Lawyer, Law & Politics Media Inc. as published in Texas Monthly (2012)
  • Government Contracts
• Recognized, The Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, Lawdragon Magazine (2006-2011)
• Recipient, Justinian Award, Dallas Bar Association
• Admiral, Texas Navy
• Member, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels
• Recipient, Spirit of Leadership Award, ABA Public Contract Law Section (2011)
• Recognized, AV^® Preeminent^™ 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell^® PEER REVIEW RATINGS^™

• Chair Emeritus and Former Chair and President, Texas Historical Foundation
• Member, Dallas Historical Society
• Member, Executive Committee, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
• Member, McDonald Observatory Board of Visitors, The University of Texas at Austin
• Member, Senators Hutchison-Cornyn Federal Judiciary Evaluation Committee
• Former General Counsel, Republican Party of Texas
• Former President, Hope Cottage–Children’s Bureau Inc.
• Former President, Hope Cottage Foundation
• Former President, Dallas Theater Center
• Former Chair and President, International Trade Association of Dallas/Fort Worth
• Former Chair, City of Dallas Judicial Nominating Commission
• Former Chair, Mayor’s International Committee
• Former Chair, International Committee, Dallas Regional Chamber
• Founder, City of Dallas Protocol Office
• Former Member, Advisory Board, Junior League of Dallas