About Ms. Jan Matthew
Ms. Jan Matthew Tamanini has spent more than four decades working at the intersection of law and government in Pennsylvania. She constructed a career inside state businesses earlier than forming a private practice. Colleagues describe a lawyer who knows the procedural and practical contours of public contracting and transportation regulation.
Tamanini completed her legal studies at Dickinson School of Law, receiving her J.D. in 1981. She in advance earned a B.A. in Journalism and Theatre Arts from Pennsylvania State University in 1973. Those two degrees -- one in reporting and one in law -- formed a direct writing fashion and an eye for the details that topic in regulatory work.
Her public-sector profession began within the mid-Nineteen Eighties. In 1984 she served as an assistant counsel on the Pennsylvania Securities Commission. A few years later she joined the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, operating within the Contract, Aviation, and Mass Transit Section beginning in 1987. That role uncovered her to procurement problems, contract drafting and the complexities of public transportation projects.
In 1990 she moved to the Governor’s Office of the Budget as an assistant counsel, after which returned to the Department of Transportation in 1991 as assistant counsel for Contracts and Legal Services. Her duties increasingly touched on large-scale projects and the contractual frameworks that govern them. In the early 2000s she took on management-degree counsel roles on the Pennsylvania Department of General Services, serving as Assistant Chief Counsel for Public Works in 2001 and as Senior Counsel for Procurement and Governmental Operations in 2003.
In 2007 she joined JMT Law, LLC as a member. In that placing she translated years of presidency-aspect experience into client recommendation, handling matters that frequently concerned procurement disputes, contract interpretation, and public works worries. Her background gives her realistic insight into how state procurement offices consider bids and manage contractual performance.
Tamanini keeps memberships in the Pennsylvania State Bar, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Dauphin County Bar Association. She has presented on public contracting topics for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and has served as chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Plain English Committee since 2010, a position that aligns together with her interest in clean drafting and available legal writing.
She is certified to practice in Pennsylvania and continues to manage things for both public entities and personal events. Her recent practice concentrates on procurement, contracts, public works, transportation regulation and governmental operations.
