Holistic Approach to Defending in Military Justice

As I think about how to make my practice better and ways to innovate military justice practice, I constantly return to trying to find ways of helping clients navigate their experience.  As part of ...

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The Heart of a Gladiator – For Military Justice

This past week, the Army JAG Corps lost two of its own.  One out on a run before work.  The other by his own hand.  Though some may deign to judge that one loss is greater than the other, I ...

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A Military Civilian Defense Counsel Takes a Trip to the Trial Lawyer’s College

It was not so long ago that I came across a copy of the commencement speech I gave in 2000 for the Louisiana Scholars’ College (no jokes, okay?  It does exist).  My theme? Resist complacency.  ...

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Leave Your Ego at the Door FOR Military Justice

In military justice and elsewhere, always at odds in the heart of the gladiator (litigator) as she enters the arena (the courtroom or in any advocacy role really) is the tension between the win for ...

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Compassion Fatigue for Military Defenders with Wrongfully Accused Clients

Military defenders face an invisible threat known as compassion fatigue.  The America Bar Association simplifies the definition of compassion fatigue as the “cumulative physical, emotional and ...

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How I Was Almost Held in Contempt by a Military Judge

I have my suspicions about the undercurrents of what prompted the ire of a certain military judge several months back at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. However because I have no evidence, I will ...

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Refusing to Practice Law on a Conveyor Belt in Military Justice

Facing military justice and court-martial for any offense, whether guilty or not guilty, must be one of the most stressful times of any service member’s life. Even considering combat and the ...

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Calm Before the Storm – Military Charge Sheets are Coming

It is that time of year again. When everything in military justice seems calm. Military charge sheets seemingly have all but dried up. Only they have not. Between Thanksgiving and the second week of ...

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Joining the Law Office of Jocelyn C. Stewart

By Jaclyn C. Grieser As a new attorney with the firm, I thought my first post should explain how I came to join the Law Office of Jocelyn C. Stewart. It was a gray day in the late fall of 2016, when ...

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CBD Oil – The Military’s Latest Target

In the military, first it was Kind & Strong® bars, now it is CBD oil. There have been smatterings of cases in which the Air Force in particular has sought to prosecute and / or take ...

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