They’ve Got Next: Government Contracts Fresh Face Tara Hopkins

As a child, Tara Hopkins spent summers walking on drywall stilts stomping patterns into ceilings, working for her father’s construction company. Now, she’s helping facilitate multimillion dollar construction contracts for the government.

“That ability to have a conversation and understand the language of what really goes into a construction project, or those plans, is just a key element that not all lawyers really have,” said Hopkins, an associate in K&L Gates’ government contracts and procurement policy practice.

The rising star’s work spans the entire contracting process from pre-procurement advice, to proposals, to compliance investigations, to bid protests and appeals.

Hopkins ...