Mr. Slocum is a senior member of the law firm of Slocum & Boddie, P.C. He has more than forty years of experience in grant and contract law. He is a Distinguished Faculty member of the Society of Research Administrators, and has won the Excellence Award (2003) and the Hartford/Nicholson Award (1992) from that organization. He serves as an adjunct assistant professor, Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.

As instructor, Mr. Slocum served as primary lecturer on many topics, including all aspects of intellectual property in research for organizations including SRA, NCURA, NCMA, and for many universities including George Washington University, Howard University, University of Mississippi, University of Cincinnati, and Texas A&M University. He has presented programs on topics including Misconduct in Science, Conflict of Interest, and Federal Ethics Issues to principal investigators, clinical researchers and research executives.

Mr. Slocum has been in private practice for over thirty-five years. He successfully represented a large purple children’s character in national copyright and trademark litigation against nineteen defendants; is presently conducting copyright litigation to protect the design of the patterns in fine linen, and has negotiated countless copyright and other technology licenses.

Among his many activities, he has, for several years, reviewed and negotiated the terms of all of the clinical research agreements of several large hospital research institutes. He has represented several universities and university research affiliates, as well as countless for-profit companies and non-profit organizations in all aspects of research law, including contract and grants administration, compliance, subcontract negotiation and time and effort reporting issues.

Mr. Slocum has written a major portion of a University textbook on Research Administration and Management, in collaboration with senior research managers from academic and healthcare institutions. He developed an Ethics in Government text for senior officials at Health and Human Services. He also developed texts on Universities and Federal Contracting and Industry-University Agreements, wrote articles on federal contracting and grants administration for national publication in peer-reviewed journals, and wrote texts on Federal Contract Law, Advanced Federal Contract Law, Contract Administration, Construction Contracting, Cost and Price Analysis, and other subjects for use by contracting personnel.

Mr. Slocum is an honor graduate of DePauw University, and received his J.D. with honors from George Washington University National Law Center. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar He has received letters of appreciation from the President's Council on Integrity in Government and the Defense Logistics Agency Inspector General for services on behalf of those organizations. Several times, he has been an expert witness in procurement matters for the United States Public Defender and for a large state university in litigation that arose between the University Principal Investigator and the Principal Investigator of a collaborating Institution.