The Heidt Law Firm, PLLC · Fairfax, Virginia
The Heidt Law Firm provides legal and strategic counsel to executives and high-net-worth individuals, defense contractors and government-focused businesses, small and mid-size businesses, and tribal entities and NHOs in Fairfax, Northern Virginia, throughout Virginia, and in select matters nationally and internationally. The common thread is complexity — matters where business judgment, legal analysis, and real-world experience must work together to produce the right outcome.
Best Lawyers®
DC Metro — Estates
Best Law Firms®
DC Metro
Lawyers of
Distinction
Elite Lawyers
Corporate
The Heidt Law Firm is not a general practice. The clients it serves share a common profile: their legal matters are complex, the stakes are high, and the quality of legal judgment — not just legal knowledge — determines the outcome. Below are the four primary audiences the firm serves, with the specific legal needs and practice areas most relevant to each.
Who We Serve
Executives, senior leaders, and high-net-worth families whose legal needs span estate planning, business ownership, corporate transactions, asset protection, and litigation — often simultaneously. Alex Heidt spent 25 years as a senior executive at Lockheed Martin, Harris Corporation, Alion Science and Technology, and Orbital Sciences.
Who We Serve
Defense contractors, systems integrators, subcontractors, and government-focused businesses in Northern Virginia and the DC Metro corridor. Alex Heidt’s executive experience includes more than $15B+ in M&A experience as a Senior Vice President — legal counsel grounded in direct operational experience.
Who We Serve
Small and mid-size businesses in Fairfax and Northern Virginia that need the quality of legal counsel typically provided by large in-house legal departments, without the overhead of a full-time legal team. Business formation, contracts, disputes, fraud recovery, and outside general counsel informed by direct senior executive experience in defense contracting.
Who We Serve
Disadvantaged business entities pursuing federal contracting opportunities — including 8(a) certified firms, Native Hawaiian Organizations (NHOs), Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs), tribal businesses, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), HUBZone-certified businesses, and Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) entities. The firm advises on the technically demanding areas of federal procurement law that govern each program.
Every client audience The Heidt Law Firm serves shares a common profile: the legal matters that bring them to the firm are complex, high-stakes, or financially consequential — matters where the quality of legal judgment materially affects the outcome. A government contractor facing a bid protest on a large IDIQ benefits from counsel with direct experience in federal procurement decision-making. An executive structuring a trust around deferred compensation and privately held equity benefits from counsel familiar with those asset types. A small business owner facing an emergency injunction from a national corporation benefits from counsel with direct experience across that type of matter.
Before founding The Heidt Law Firm, Alex Heidt spent 25 years as a Senior Vice President of Air Force Programs and Business Development at Harris Corporation, Senior Vice President of Navy Programs at Alion Science and Technology, Director of Contracts & Strategy and VP at Lockheed Martin, and in senior executive roles at Orbital Sciences. His executive career includes more than $15B+ in M&A experience, direct negotiations with the U.S. federal government, the United Nations, and foreign governments, and leadership of defense contracting operations across six continents. The clients the firm serves benefit from that perspective at every level.
Across all four client audiences, the Heidt Law Firm provides legal services spanning the full range of its practice areas — often across multiple areas simultaneously for a single client whose legal needs are interconnected.
Formation, contracts, disputes, fraud recovery, and litigation for businesses of every size.
FAR/DFARS compliance, bid protests, CDA claims, teaming agreements, and cleared attorney representation.
Transactions, due diligence, corporate governance, and ownership transitions on both sides of the table.
Drafting, review, negotiation, and dispute resolution for commercial, government, and personal contracts.
Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and complex multi-asset planning for individuals, executives, and business owners.
Will contests, trust disputes, fiduciary misconduct, and guardianship litigation. Best Lawyers® 2026.
8(a) certification, NHO and ANC contracting, tribal entity government contracting, SDVOSB, HUBZone, and Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) compliance.
Court of Appeals of Virginia, Virginia Supreme Court, and the Fourth Circuit.
Federal regulatory compliance, administrative proceedings, agency-facing strategy, and security-related matters.
The firm’s primary client audiences are executives and high-net-worth individuals, defense contractors and government-focused businesses, small and mid-size businesses, and tribal entities including Native Hawaiian Organizations, Alaska Native Corporations, and tribal businesses pursuing government contracting. The common thread is legal complexity — matters where business judgment and legal analysis must work together and where the stakes of getting it wrong are real.
Yes. While many of the firm’s engagements are with businesses, the firm also represents executives, high-net-worth individuals, and families in estate planning, estate litigation, and personal legal matters — including matters that have both personal and business dimensions simultaneously, such as an executive’s estate plan that must coordinate with their business ownership and compensation structure.
Alex Heidt spent 25 years as a Senior Vice President at Lockheed Martin, Harris Corporation, and Alion Science and Technology — managing government contracts, directing business development operations, overseeing FAR compliance, and making the decisions that defense contractors now bring to him as legal questions. The firm is also a cleared attorney practice, able to engage directly on defense program matters with the appropriate level of discretion.
The firm actively represents small and mid-size businesses — this is a core client audience, not an afterthought. Small businesses in Fairfax and Northern Virginia face legal problems that are often just as complex as those faced by large companies, but without the same internal resources. The firm provides outside general counsel services, contract review and drafting, business formation, dispute resolution, and litigation representation across a wide range of business sizes.
Heidt Strategic Advisors is a separate business consulting practice — not a law firm — providing strategic advisory including government contracting growth strategy, BD pipeline development, M&A targeting and due diligence, P&L restructuring, international market strategy, and executive coaching. These are consulting engagements, not legal representation, and do not create an attorney-client relationship. The two practices are legally and operationally distinct. Some clients engage both for related but distinct needs.
Schedule a consultation to discuss a legal matter with counsel informed by 25 years of senior executive experience in the industries and organizations the firm’s clients operate in today.
