Donald G. Gavin is a partner at Akerman LLP in Washington, D.C. He sits as a neutral on dispute resolution tribunals, panels and boards on major construction projects and contract disputes all over the world having had clients in the energy, environmental and infrastructure sectors, to include power production, natural resources, hazardous cleanups and governmental. Mr. Gavin has been elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Construction Lawyers, the American College of Construction Lawyers, the American Bar Foundation and is a Past National Chair of the Section of Public Contract Law of the American Bar Association. He was a founding partner in the construction law firm of Wickwire Gavin P.C. and is the senior construction and government contract lawyer at Akerman LLP.

He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, is certified by the International Mediation Institute, a representative of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association to the National Construction Dispute Resolution Committee and a past officer of the International Construction Projects Committee of the International Bar Association.