Talking to Each Other for Military Justice

There is a reason that the Equal Opportunity and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) processes *encourage* resolution at the lowest level. Many issues arise from a failure to communicate or from ...

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Feeling Alive and Resiliency for Military Justice

I return often to the idea of finding my joy. I have had many humbling experiences not so long ago that helped me see a reflection in the mirror that bore little resemblance to joy. In Master ...

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Responding to Derogatory Findings for Company Grade Officers

When the command initiates an investigation against you, your world may be turned upside down. You are put into a limbo status while awaiting the investigation’s results. For a while, only field ...

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Giving Away the Special Sauce for UCMJ

When I released each book in military motions practice, I had colleagues question why I would give away the special sauce. They reasoned that this somehow dilutes the likelihood that I would be hired ...

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Effectuating Change Starts With A Discussion

Like so many of you, I am deeply troubled by violence our children and educators are being forced to endure, witness, or imagine to the point of feeling unsafe. Many people I love and care for keep ...

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Playing the Long Game for Military Justice

It is never easy to deliver “bad news” to a client or even to a new potential client. Many military service members who are facing command investigations believe that if they did not commit ...

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Sexual Harassment as a UCMJ Crime

On 26 January 2022, the President signed an executive order making Sexual Harassment an explicit offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. This executive order was an effort to implement a ...

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Seizure of Personally Owned Weapons and the UCMJ

The firm often fields questions about whether or not the command or police authorities can seize personally owned weapons from service members. As many issues in the law, it depends. A search warrant ...

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Secret Recording – in UCMJ

If you are a servicemember thinking about secretly recording a conversation with law enforcement, your commander, or other military officials, that’s a sign that you probably should be talking to ...

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Limited Rights to Privacy in Military Housing and the UCMJ

Whether or not members of your unit, your command, and even military law enforcement can enter your military housing can be a complicated issue. Military family housing is a type of private ...

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