Parsons Behle & Latimer

Michaela is a multidisciplinary member of the firm’s litigation practice team. With significant experience in government contracts, technology and environmental fields, Michaela lends unique perspective to client matters integrating both technical, regulatory and public-private partnership issues.

Capabilities

Biography

Michaela Thornton is a litigation associate attorney in Parsons’ Salt Lake City office. She represents clients in procurement and contract-related claims and investigations, as well as commercial and environmental litigation and regulatory matters.

Prior to joining Parsons, Michaela was a government contracts associate in the Washington, D.C. office of a major global law firm where she served as a team subject matter expert in sustainability and state and local procurement. Michaela received her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School with a Concentration in Government Procurement Law. While in law school, she served as the editor-in-chief of the Public Contract Law Journal and received the 2022 Patricia A. Tobin Government Procurement Law Award. Prior to law school, Michaela worked as a client-facing engineer at a geospatial technology firm.

Michaela received a B.A. in Public Policy Studies with a minor in Earth and Ocean Sciences from Duke University.

Accomplishments

Academic

George Washington University Law School (J.D.)

Editor-in-Chief, Public Contract Law Journal, 2021-2022
Patricia A. Tobin Government Procurement Law Academic Awardee, 2022
George Washington Law Roger Boyd Scholar, 2021-2022
National Association of State Procurement Officials Scholarship Recipient, 2021-2022
Moot Court Board Member

Duke University (A.B.)