Jason C. Lynch is Counsel in Fluet’s Litigation + Investigations Practice, where he represents and advises government contractors and individual clients in complex civil litigation and government enforcement actions. Prior to joining Fluet, he served as in-house counsel at a Fortune 50 company, leading responses to federal and state regulatory inquiries and investigations.

Before his in-house experience, Mr. Lynch served for seven years in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In the Fraud Section, Mr. Lynch led investigations and pursued litigation under the False Claims Act and its various predicates, including the Anti-Kickback Statute. In the Federal Programs Branch, he served as lead counsel in high-stakes litigation brought against federal agencies and officers in courts across the country. He focused particularly on the defense and intelligence communities, representing the Department of Defense and various intelligence-community agencies in matters involving personnel policy, security-clearance policy, and lawful detention under the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force. He also litigated challenges to major federal spending programs under COVID-era appropriations and defended federal agencies in various APA challenges, including to federal grant distributions, energy efficiency standards, and workforce safety regulations.

Mr. Lynch began his career practicing government contracts law at a prominent law firm, where he focused on internal investigations, white-collar defense, and False Claims Act litigation. He has also represented government contractors in bid protests and Contract Disputes Act claims.

Between private practice and his first tour at the Department of Justice, Mr. Lynch served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law and received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the College of the Holy Cross, which he attended on a Naval ROTC scholarship. Upon graduating, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and served for four years as a logistics officer in the United States Marine Corps.

In his free time, you can find Mr. Lynch trying to keep up with his three boys’ baseball schedules or fishing the Chesapeake from his kayak.