Partner, Washington DC, Denver
1900 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006-1108

TEL: 202.496.7500
FAX: 202.496.7756
EMAIL: hfenster@mckennalong.com

PROFILE

Mr. Fenster is a partner in the law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, where he has been in practice for forty-seven years; he is resident in the Washington, D.C. and Denver, Colorado offices. Mr. Fenster specializes in litigation, particularly, against the United States and on the subjects of procurement, environmental, administrative and tort law. He has had extensive experience in the negotiation, interpretation, and litigation of contracts for major weapons systems, as well as the procurement of research and development. Mr. Fenster has had extensive involvement in critical legal and regulatory issues arising in the award and termination of major weapons programs. He has lectured and testified extensively on the subject of government finance and accounting from both industry and government perspectives.

Mr. Fenster is a specialist in litigation under a number of federal statutes including the Administrative Procedure Act, the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

Mr. Fenster holds degrees in architecture/civil engineering, history, and economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School. Mr. Fenster is an author and lecturer on government and administrative law subjects. He was litigation counsel for the Reagan-Bush Campaign Committee and for the Grace Commission. Mr. Fenster is a director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Chamber Litigation Center and a corporate and foundation director and trustee.

Mr. Fenster chaired the Student Affairs Advisory Board at the University of Colorado and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the University's Alliance for Technology Learning and Society Institute ("ATLAS") and the Center of the American West. He advises the University on a wide range of privatization projects.

Mr. Fenster led a multi-firm team of lawyers who, on February 23, 1998 obtained a judgment against the United States in the amount of $3.877 billion, the largest judgment ever entered against the government. He represents the Secretary of the Interior in Indian Trust Litigation before the federal courts. Mr. Fenster represents many national, Colorado and Denver area aerospace and defense contractors and a number of construction contractors in the Rocky Mountain region, nationally and internationally.

Mr. Fenster has been recognized as a “Colorado Super Lawyer” by the publishers of Law and Politics.