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Gary Stevens is Of Counsel to Saltman & Stevens, P.C. whose practice is focused in government contracts, natural resource law, construction contracts and antitrust law. Mr. Stevens has extensive trial experience in complex litigation, particularly relating to federal timber sale contracts, natural resource law and construction contracts, before the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States District Courts, the Boards of Contract Appeals, and the Government Accountability Office. He has successfully argued numerous cases on appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and other federal courts of appeals. He has been lead trial counsel in numerous cases against the Department of Justice, the United States Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and other federal agencies. Mr. Stevens also has handled numerous United States Forest Service administrative appeals involving a wide variety of issues arising under the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Forest Management Act, including appeals of national forest plans and interventions in appeals of Forest Service timber sales. In addition to litigation, Mr. Stevens advises clients regarding their rights and obligations under federal timber contracts, the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act, the Endangered Species Act, and other natural resource legislation. Mr. Stevens has also represented clients in grand jury investigations and in administrative suspension and debarment proceedings. Mr. Stevens regularly works with the members and staff of several timber industry trade associations including the California Forestry Association, the Colorado Timber Industry Association, the American Forest Resource Council, the Intermountain Forest Association, and the American Forest and Paper Association. Mr. Stevens also represents conservation-oriented clients, such as Metafore (formerly the Certified Forest Products Council).

Mr. Stevens is a member of the District of Columbia, Federal and American Bar Associations and the bar associations of the United States Court of Federal Claims, the Federal Circuit and the Board of Contract Appeals. He is a member of the ABA Public Contract Law Section (having served as Chairman of the Timber Sales Subcommittee of the Natural Resource Sales Committee), and the Antitrust Law and Environment, Energy, and Resources Sections. In addition, Mr. Stevens is a member of the ABA Forum Committee on the Construction Industry and the National Contract Management Association.

Mr. Stevens has participated in a variety of conferences and seminars, and has made frequent presentations concerning natural resource law, forest plan appeals, timber contract law, government contracts, and construction contracts, including presentations before the California Forestry Association, the Colorado Forest Industry Association, the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation, the Independent Forest Products Association, the Southern Timber Council, the Indiana Hardwood Lumberman’s Association, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Contract Management Association, and the Association of General Contractors. Mr. Stevens is a contributor to Legal Briefs, a Saltman & Stevens, P.C. publication addressing new developments in federal timber law. He is also the author of Faulty Agency Science Undermines Management of Natural Resources, Washington Legal Foundation 2002; Dealing with Environmental Contingencies in Public and Private Timber Sale Contracts, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation; and the coauthor of Fraud Investigations: Who Pays for the Lawyer?, Contract Management.

B.A., Philosophy and History, Magna Cum Laude, with Honors, member of Phi Beta Kappa, Fordham University 1968.
B.A., Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Oxford University, 1970.
J.D., Cum Laude, University of Michigan Law School, 1973.
Entered private practice, concentrating in antitrust law, in 1973; expanded practice to include timber and natural resource law, government contracts and construction law in 1976; cofounded Saltman & Stevens, P.C. in 1980.
Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1973, admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Eastern District of North Carolina, Oregon and the Eastern District of California, among other courts. Mr. Stevens is also admitted to, and regularly practices before, numerous federal agency boards of contract appeals.