Before founding The Gore Firm PLLC, Cameron served as a partner at The Brown Firm PLLC (TBF) in Alexandria, Virginia (a historic minority-owned firm serving clients since in 1941), and provided legal services to individuals, schools, and businesses in the areas of commercial & civil litigation; contracts; torts; employment law; discrimination; wrongful death; real property; construction; leasing; and alternative dispute resolution. 

Prior to the Brown Firm PLLC, Cameron served as General Counsel of the District of Columbia’s Department of General Services (DGS).  In that capacity, he was a member of the executive leadership team, whose mission was to build, maintain, and sustain the District of Columbia’s real estate portfolio.  The inventory consisted of more than 157M SF of land and 35.7M SF of improvements in Washington, D.C., including schools, parks, markets, housing, and recreational facilities. 

At DGS, Cameron also supervised a high-performing team of experts that provided quality services and support to 6 divisions involved in the areas of government contracts, real estate, construction, leasing, service and supplies, environmental and historic preservation, energy and sustainability, fleet management, public-private partnerships, ethics, appropriations, information law, labor & employment law, legislative and public affairs, police & security, and regulatory compliance.

Before working at DGS, Cameron worked 19-years at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where he in part served as the Chief Counsel of the Real Property Law Group (RPLG) – a Senior Executive Service level position.  As Chief Counsel, Cameron managed a 17-member team that provided legal advice and assistance to support the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system in the country.  His clients included VA’s healthcare, benefits, and memorial services, and several program offices, which supported our nation’s Veterans with an annual budget of approximately $220B.

Prior to being Chief Counsel, Cameron served as the Deputy Chief Counsel for the RPLG, after being promoted from being the recognized legal expert for the agency’s Enhanced-Use Leasing program (38 U.S.C. §§ 8161-8169).  Through Cameron’s expertise, VA successfully out-leased dozens of underutilized & vacant properties nationwide to selected developers, for terms of up to 75 years.  The developers financed, constructed, operated, and maintained agreed-upon improvements (i.e., mixed-use facilities, office buildings, parking garages, energy plants, and housing facilities), and provided VA with millions of dollars’ worth of negotiated monetary and in-kind consideration benefiting Veterans.

Before his three promotions at VA, Cameron began his public sector career at the agency in 1999 as a contract law attorney.  In that role, he provided legal advice and support on multi-million dollar service and supply procurements.  These matters often involved analysis and interpretation of, e.g., Title 38 of the U.S. Code; the Federal Acquisition Regulation; the VA Acquisition Regulations; Federal legislation; and VA policy.

Cameron’s work at VA included the following accomplishments:

• • Appointed from 2011-2015 as VA’s legal expert to facilitate the U.S. Dep’t of Justice defense against a high-profile class action lawsuit in Los Angeles, California – (Valentini v. Shinseki – U.S. Dist. (subsequently recaptioned as Valentini v. McDonald) (C. D. Cal. No. 11-4846; 9th Cir. Nos. 13-56836, 13-56842, 13-56880, 1356887) — where Veteran plaintiffs alleged that VA was misusing its 388-acre West Los Angeles campus (including through several illegal land use arrangements).  With Cameron’s legal support in conjunction with a selected team of experts working under then VA Secretary Bob McDonald, the parties reached a “Principles for Partnership Agreement” settlement with a high-powered Plaintiffs’ litigation team (and other experts) that included:  Lawrence Tribe, Esq. (Harvard Law professor); Bobby Shriver, Esq. (philanthropist / attorney); Ron Olson, Esq. and other attorneys of Munger, Tolles and Olson LLP; Mark Rosenbaum, Esq. and other lawyers at the ACLU; Gary Blasi, Esq. (UCLA Professor of Law Emeritus); Jon Ulin, Esq. and other lawyers of Arnold & Porter, LLP, and the Vietnam Veterans of America.  Per the settlement, the campus is being revitalized through a new, Veteran-centric master plan process, including the development of approximately 1,200 new housing units for homeless veterans.
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• • Served as VA’s lead attorney to help revitalize VA’s 388-acre West Los Angeles campus and make it a Veteran-centric home and community for Veterans.  The work included reviewing 28 existing land use agreements at the campus and opting to continue, renegotiate, or terminate them as appropriate, based on their compatibility with VA’s renewed focus to improve the campus for Veterans.  This large-scale review included engaging with senior principals and legal representatives from UCLA, Brentwood School, the Red Cross, the City of Los Angeles, and Breitburn Energy Partners, L.P.
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  • Drafted VA’s first-ever Enhanced-Use Lease on the West LA campus (per the “West LA Leasing Act of 2016” – P.L. 114-226) whereby a selected developer successfully built and operates 50 new housing units for homeless Veterans.
   

• • Prepared a letter of intent between former VA Secretary Bob McDonald, and Carolina Winston Barrie (a descendant of the family that in 1888 deeded the land now comprising the West LA campus to the United States), to enable a non-profit called “The 1887 Fund” to raise millions of dollars to restore five historic buildings at the West LA campus (including the Wadsworth Chapel).
   

• • Worked with VA leaders and DOJ to ensure a private parking contract operator (named Westside Services) at the West LA campus was held civilly and criminally accountable, for embezzling approximately $11M in parking revenues from VA.
   

• • Drafted legislation included in the enacted VA Mission Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-182), which provided the framework of a “VA BRAC-like process” to occur, where the President will establish an Asset and Infrastructure Review Commission to assess VA’s vast real property portfolio nationwide (including medical centers and clinics) and receive feedback from VA, Veterans groups, and other stakeholders; and then provide recommendations to the President on which ones to modernize, realign, or close.  The President will then approve or reject the plan; and if approved, send it to Congress to then accept or reject the recommendations in their entirety; or take no action, in which case the recommendations will take effect.
   

• • Helped draft the VA “CHIP-IN” Act (P.L. 114-294), which allows VA to enter into up to five donation agreements to receive property and/or facilities from third parties. Also helped consummate the first of these donation agreements in April 2017, where VA received private construction management services resulting in a new $34 million ambulatory care facility in Omaha, Nebraska.
   
• • Provided senior level guidance and expertise with counterparts at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the successful completion of VA $100+ million “super-construction projects” around the country.
   

• • Handled numerous matters before the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO); the U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
   

• • Served as lead VA counsel to successfully negotiate a $70 million interim bridge contract with Kiewit Turner, so the contractor would agree to re-mobilize and resume work on VA’s billion-dollar hospital construction project in Denver, CO.
   

• • Negotiated a MOU between VA and the City of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, enabling VA to acquire a 34-acre parcel of land to build a new hospital and provide care for Veterans.
   

• • Was the legal expert for VA’s first ever “ESPC” (energy savings performance contract), which enabled a competitively-selected private sector partner to finance and install energy and water conservation measures at five sites within VISN 4 (Pittsburgh – University Drive and Heinz divisions, Coatesville, Wilkes Barre, and Philadelphia), without VA having to commit upfront monetary appropriations.

(a) more than 94 active and planned VA out-leases (a/k/a, “enhanced-use leases” authorized under 38 U.S.C. §§ 8161-8169);

(b) more than 1,600 VA in-leases (authorized under 38 U.S.C. §§ 8103-8104); and

(c) more than 500 other active land use agreements (e.g., licenses, easements, permits, and sharing agreements created under various legal authorities).