My Time for Military Justice

After almost nine years in private practice, my firm moved to paid consultations for some categories of new clients. I have been tempted to do so for many years. My impulse earlier this year was for ...

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Doing It All for Military Justice

I hear it all the time – “I don’t know how you do it all.” Plainly, I don’t. That bears some explanation. And in large part I feel like I am undertaking an exercise actors do when they ...

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Maintaining a Balance for Military Justice

Two attorneys separately approached me to ask whether I had any wisdom about how to achieve work-life balance. My reply was, partly in gest, “what balance?” I could tell they were earnest in ...

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Breaking Bad (News): How To Tell The People In Your Life That You Are Facing Legal Trouble.

Bad news.  Nobody likes hearing it, and getting some about yourself is never good.   But delivering bad news—especially to someone you care about—might be even worse. In the military, ...

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Tough Love for Military Justice

I cannot care more about a military client’s case than they do. Well, technically, I can, and I have. But I won’t. Anymore. When I was in uniform defending Soldiers in Germany and later at Fort ...

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We Want to Be Where We Can Do the Most Good – For Military Justice

Since 2008 when I was a part of the busiest Army Trial Defense Counsel offices in the world at Fort Hood, Texas, I began to understand the problems of the military justice system. The system’s goal ...

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How to Read an AR 15-6 Investigation as a Client / Respondent

One of the hardest aspects of preparing a case for the client is to review the command investigation assembled against him. Sometimes I forget. As I coached a recent client on how to read an ...

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“God Was Here Today” for Military Justice

One of the significant differences between representing military clients as a civilian UCMJ defense attorney and doing so as a uniformed counsel is that I get to choose my clients. When you wear the ...

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What is the Typical Punishment for Sexual Assault in the Military

Because of the absence of mandatory minimums in the military system for punishing sexual assault and rape do not exist, you can see a very vast and a very different level of punishment from one ...

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What is the Difference Between NJP and Court-Martial

The difference between nonjudicial punishment and court-martial involves multiple factors that include who is going to be the decision maker to decide if that person has been proven guilty beyond a ...

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