Federal Crime Base Reporting in Military Justice

The second week of July 2021, a federal judge decided that the Air Force was more responsible for a mass-shooting in Texas than the actual gunman who did the shooting. Specifically, U.S. District ...

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Pretrial Conferences for Military Justice

For the past few years, the pretrial orders in the judicial circuit where I practice the majority of my cases has required a pretrial status conference between the government and the defense counsel. ...

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Access to Experience for More in Military Justice

A friend reminded me recently that even though not everyone can afford my full representation, there are plenty of people who still need and value my time. I think a lot about time and spend a great ...

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I’m Over It! For Military Justice

Since the first case in the USMC that I tried as a civilian defense counsel, I had to accept that there was a seeming (hopefully) rebuttable presumption that civilian defense attorneys were unethical ...

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Details Matter For Military Justice

Details Matter for Military Justice I finished up a trial convinced the prosecutors don’t bother to listen to the alleged victim’s videotaped interview. Ever. They rely instead on the summary in ...

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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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