Team Member Profile

Amanda Z. Sin is an Associate at Fluet, representing, advising, and counseling clients on government contracts matters within the firm’s Government Contracts Practice.

As part of her practice, Ms. Sin has experience representing government contractors across a wide range of industries, including heavy construction and infrastructure, logistics and supply chain services, and defense manufacturing, in disputes with state and federal entities, as well as in subcontractor-prime contractor and surety bond disputes. Ms. Sin also represents and advises clients with respect to bid protests, contract negotiations, compliance with government regulations, acquisitions, internal investigations, and suspension and debarment matters. Prior to joining Fluet, Ms. Sin was an Associate at another mid-sized law firm, where she specialized in government contracts litigation. During law school, Ms. Sin interned with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in the Investigation & Prosecution Division.

Ms. Sin earned her Juris Doctor, with Honors, from The George Washington University Law School, where she concentrated in Government Procurement Law. She was a staff member and published Note author for the Public Contract Law Journal.

Ms. Sin holds a Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, in Peace, War & Defense with an additional major in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Having grown up in Hong Kong, Ms. Sin speaks Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese fluently.

In her free time, you can find Ms. Sin spending time with her husband and two dogs, training at the gym, or tending to her backyard vegetable garden.

  • Represented shipbuilder in negotiating landmark contract with U.S. Coast Guard.
  • Represented combat equipment supplier in successful agency-level protest.
  • Provided independent monitoring services in connection with federal agency administrative agreement.
  • Represented multi-national tunneling joint venture in dispute against state government involving construction delays, differing site conditions, and defective specification and obtained settlement exceeding $55 million.
  • Represented surety in payment bond dispute regarding work performed on a subsea liquefied natural gas pipeline on a U.S. military installation.
  • Advised surety in qui tam False Claims Act proceeding.
  • Associate, Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP
  • J.D., The George Washington University Law School, with Honors
  • B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summa cum laude
  • District of Columbia Bar
  • Virginia Bar
  • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Virginia
  • U.S. District Court: Western District of Virginia
  • Military Spouse J.D. Network
  • National Asian Pacific American Bar Association