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- ‘Wrongful’ is not a sufficient notice for the charge of adultery under Art 134, UCMJ
- “Your money order should be $ 576.20”: Who should pay for the reunification of the children with their parents?
- 10,000 Army Officers Could Face Layoffs Amid Personnel Reductions
- 12 Facts about Summary Court-Martial
- 2017 District of Columbia Judicial and Bar Conference Justice for All? Bias and Discrimination in the 21st Century
- A Detailed Look at the Federal EEO Complaint Process
- A fake news story helps expose a real crisis
- ABC15 Investigators Look at a Case of Out-of-Control Waste, Abuse and Fraud
- Academy Cadets Charged with Sex Crimes
- Administrative Discharges (Chapter 10) In Lieu of Court Martial
- Agents Raid Office of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen in Connection With Stormy Daniels Payments
- All About Going AWOL
- All separated parents detained by ICE in Colorado to be sent to Texas
- Anna Mulrine of the Christian Science Monitor Sits Down with Eric Montalvo of The Federal Practice Group
- Army General Facing Charges of Adultery and Forcible Sodomy
- Article 32 Hearing scheduled for Staff Sergeant Bales on 17 September
- Article 32(b), UCMJ Investigation – It is your right – Use It To Your Benefit
- Article by Senior Associate Caroline Leary Published on Cleared Jobs
- As Probes Pile Up, Trump Administration Says It’s Reunified All Eligible Immigrant Families
- As White House Preps Successor, Mulvaney Plans to Exit Consumer Agency
- Asking for GoFundMe donations at work could lead to ethics violations
- Attorney Bill Cowden Comments on Clinton Emails for The Washington Post
- Attorney Bill Cowden Comments on Possible Clinton Prosecution
- Attorney Chris Graham Comments on Possible Navy Espionage Case
- Attorney D’Agostino Discusses Proposed Title 38 Change
- Attorney D’Agostino Quoted by Federal News Radio About Upcoming Bills
- Attorney D’Agostino Quoted by Federal News Radio About Upcoming Bills
- Attorney D’Agostino Quoted in Nextgov Article About Alt DHS Twitter Account
- ATTORNEY DAEHOON PARK JOINS THE FEDERAL PRACTICE GROUP
- Attorney Daehoon Park Quoted for Korea Daily
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Challenges Congress’s MSPB Stance in New Article
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Comments on Congressional MSPB Criticism in VA Case
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Comments on Fate of MSPB
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino comments on federal employment case Klockner v. Solis
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Comments on Pentagon Bomb Squad Pay Scandal in The Washington Post
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Comments On Rise Of Whistleblower Cases And Findings In Favor of Employees
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Comments on VA Case in Stars and Stripes
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Comments on VA Title 38 Proposal for Federal Drive
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Discusses Marijuana Use & Federal Employees
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Discusses Paid Administrative Leave on WSB-TV
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Lends Insight on Wolf Creek Controversy
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Pens TSA Management Criticism
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Provides Insight on TSA Misconduct Reports
- Attorney Debra D’Agostino Quoted in The Washington Post
- Attorney Eric Montalvo Speaks with Law360 on Jawad Case
- Attorney Eric Montalvo’s Sexual Assault Case Clarifies Consent Issue
- Attorney Heather White Discusses Supreme Court Ruling on Nominees as Acting Leaders with Federal New Radio
- Attorney Joanna Friedman Comments on Trump Nondisclosure Quote
- Attorney Joanna Friedman Discusses Secretary Clinton’s Hiring of Special Government Employees
- Attorney Joanna Friedman Speaks to Daily Beast about Trump NDAs
- Attorney Molnar Writes For Federal News Radio
- Attorney Monica Molnar Explains How the Management Directive 110 Can Help EEO Complainants
- Attorney White Writes About 2017 NDAA in “Federal Times”
- Attorney William Cowden Comments on FBI’s Clinton Email Revelation
- Attorney William Cowden Weighs in on “Pleading the Fifth”
- Attorney William R. Cowden Comments on Push to Impeach IRS Commissioner
- Attorneys Chris Graham & Caroline Leary Pen Federal Cybersecurity Critique
- AWOL v. Desertion – The Key is Evidence
- AWOL/UA/Desertion Return and Assist
- Bergdahl’s bigger crime: Misbehavior before the enemy
- Bid Protest Firestorm Over Defense Information Systems Agency’s Sole-Source RFP for VMWare
- Bill introduced to cover veterans harmed by Agent Orange
- Calling Out RIF Abuse
- Can the federal workforce be reorganized out of a job?
- CentCom Investigation Takes Disappointing Turn
- Common Excuses for Sexual Harassment at Work: Don’t Fall For It
- Congress needs to bring real change when it comes to sexual harassment
- Connecting With Your Court Martial Attorneys
- Court-Martialing Civilian Contractors Accompanying Our Armed Forces
- Current Force Reduction Means Greater Need for Legal Protection
- Debra D’ Agostino Quoted in Washington Post Article
- Debra D’Agostino Article on Reductions in Force Published by The Hill
- Debra D’Agostino Discusses Sequestration, Furlough Lawsuits on Federal News Radio
- Debra D’Agostino Discusses Trump Immigration Order, Employee Rights in Washington Post Article
- Debra D’Agostino Featured as Guest Speaker on Fed Access Radio Show
- Debra D’Agostino Featured on Federal News Radio
- Debra D’Agostino Featured on Government Matters
- Debra D’Agostino: Time to end wrongheaded approach to civil service reform
- Defending Against the UCMJ Article 120 charge of rape
- Denying FBI’s McCabe His Pension Would be Unusual, Attorneys Say
- Detained undocumented immigrants in Colorado sent to Texas
- Did Sonny Perdue’s Christmas message to employees cross a line?
- Did this EPA tweet violate Hatch Act? OSC says it’ll investigate
- Did You Really Do It? RCM 706 – Sanity Board
- Do Not Waive Your Administrative Separation Board
- DoD’s 11th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation: Changes are coming
- Does Breastfeeding in Uniform Violate Article 133?
- Domestic Violence in the Military: More Common than Expected
- Equitable Price Adjustment
- Eric Montalvo Discusses Bergdahl Case w/ Idaho Mountain Express
- Eric Montalvo Discusses Legal Elements of Bowe Bergdahl Court Martial on FNR’s Legal Loop
- Eric Montalvo Discusses Release of Photos By Pentagon
- Ex-Soldier Who Shot Up Afghan Village May Seek Clemency, Lawyer Says
- Federal Employee Rights
- Federal Employees and the First Amendment
- Federal Employees’ Right to Use FMLA Leave
- Federal Employment and Break Laws
- Federal Labor Law & Secret Service Scandal: Attorney Debra D’Agostino Offers Insight
- Federal News Radio Interviews Attorney D’Agostino on OPM Cyber Contract Flap
- Federal Practice attorney Bill Cowden joins CNN Today
- Federal Practice attorney Bill Cowden part of CNN Tonight panel
- Firefighter Receives $500,000 for Sexual and Religious Harassment
- Follow Orders or Follow what is Right?
- Former Navy fighter pilot found guilty of child pornography charges by federal jury
- Founding Partner Eric Montalvo Featured in NPR Video on Involuntary Separation
- Frank Carmichael of 1050 WLIP Speaks With Eric Montalvo on the Latest in Bowe Bergdahl Case
- GAO Bid Protest 2016 Annual Report
- Good Soldier Defense is Your Defense
- Government Procurement Contracts – You and the Federal Acquisition Regulation
- Has Your Security Clearance Been Denied?
- Heather White Discusses RIF Concerns & Regulations on Radio Talk Show
- Hostile Work Environment Complaints on Capitol Hill
- House Bill Calls for Defense Department to Publish Military Sex Offender Database
- House Moves Bills Enhancing Whistleblower Protections
- How Long Does the Security Clearance Process Take?
- How the Trump era is changing the federal bureaucracy
- HUD tells union to vacate federal office space, citing executive orders
- Idaho Mountain Express Quotes Eric Montalvo on Bergdahl Case
- Immigrant parents held at Aurora ICE facility being moved to Texas with hopes of reuniting with their kids, attorneys say
- Immigrants held at Aurora ICE detention center to be reunited with children
- Immigration Attorney Obtains Rare Bond Hearing Since Session’s Zero Tolerance Policy
- Immigration Crisis: Mom reunites with 7-year-old son after month-long separation
- Increasing Accountability in the Government
- Intelligence Community Whistleblowers Are On Thin Ice
- International Sales Under The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
- Isabel Cottrell Joins The Federal Practice Group
- It’s Tax Refund Time for 130,000 Veterans…Or is it?
- KASPERSKY LAB’S ALLEGED TIES TO KREMLIN LEAD TO INTERIM RULE CHANGE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
- Legal Specialists Defend GSA’s Handover of Transition Emails to Mueller Probe
- Let’s Talk About Some Bad Ideas for Civil Service Reform
- Managing Your First Federal Government Contract
- Maternity Leave in the News
- Military Sexual Assault Reform Bill Falls Short
- Misinformation Alert – ICE Agents Aren’t Police, but they Can Say they Are and Wear “POLICE ICE” Clothing
- MISINFORMATION ALERT – ICE AGENTS AREN’T POLICE, BUT THEY CAN SAY THEY ARE AND WEAR “POLICE ICE” CLOTHING
- Misstating your military record may be a crime
- Mother and Child reunited at Dulles after over a month of separation
- MSPB has never been without a quorum for this long
- Navy Times Interviews Attorney Bill Cowden on Navy Engineer Fraud Case
- Nepotism aside, Kushner is part of a big club when it comes to security clearance problems
- New Changes to the UCMJ
- New EO will likely increase agency caseload, prolong litigation, experts say
- New Manual for Courts-Martial 2012 edition
- Nothing to celebrate” New efforts do nothing to fix mismanagement at the VA
- Object to Protect Your Constitutional Rights, 5th Amendment
- Officer Show Cause Boards – Experienced Attorneys Are Essential
- On family reunification deadline, some parents remain at Aurora ICE facility while others embrace kids for first time in months
- Ousted FBI official McCabe offered jobs by Dem lawmakers so he can get full pension
- Pre-judgment Interest under Article 78, United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
- President proposes paid parental leave for federal employees
- President signs Clay Hunt SAV Act
- Protect Yourself Against Unlawful Command Influence
- Protecting Intelligence Agency Whistleblowers
- PURCHASING AN AIRCRAFT – THE LETTER OF INTENT
- Quickly Selecting The Right Court-Martial Defense Attorney
- Raise PTSD Awareness – June 2012
- Recent court decision reminds agencies they can put indicted employees on indefinite suspension
- Recent court ruling on Trump EOs may set up further debate over federal collective bargaining
- Remembering the United States Marine Corps Birthday
- Rep. Kannady Appointed to Chair House Judiciary Committee on Civil and Environmental Laws
- Ricardo J.A. Pitts-Wiley Discusses Whistleblowers for Federal News Radio
- Salvadoran mother is reunited with her son after separation
- Scrutinize disciplinary actions involving possible whistleblower
- Security clearance process remains ‘broken’ despite 2016 changes
- Sex Crimes and Courts-Martial
- Sexual Assault and Harassment Prevention in the U.S. Armed Forces
- Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault in the Federal Government Workplace
- Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Court Martialed for 2009 Desertion, Eric Montalvo Speaks to Los Angeles Times
- Soldier Arrested for Manslaughter in Accidental Shooting
- Soldier Suspected of Murder Arrested
- Soldiers Confronted for Anti-Muslim Plots
- Sponsors of Migrant Children Face Steep Transport Fees and Red Tape
- The Crime of Fraud
- The EEOC Releases FY2011 Statistics
- The Empty Chair at the Heart of the White House’s War on Unions
- The Federal Acquisition Regulation and Small Businesses
- The Federal Practice Group Advantage in Military Defense
- The Federal Practice Group Attorney Heather White Publishes Article in Government Executive
- The Federal Practice Group has immigration client interviewed on ABC World News Tonight with David Muir
- The Federal Practice Group is pleased to announce Ricardo J.A. Pitts-Wiley has been named a partner at the firm.
- The Federal Practice Group Participates in Wreaths Across America
- The Federal Practice Group Partners with Wreaths Across America for a third straight year
- The Federal Practice Group Welcomes Attorney Ayesha Kumararatne
- The Federal Practice Group Welcomes Two New Hires
- The Federal Practice Group Wins Appeal Before United States Court of Appeals
- The Federal Practice Group Worldwide Service Wins Summary Trial before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
- The Federal Practice Group’s hours for July 4, 2018
- The Fine Print of Trump’s Executive Order on Official Time
- The Kill Team Documentary About Attorney Eric Montalvo’s Case Defending Whistleblower Airs on PBS’ Independent Lens
- The Protection of Federal Employees’ First Amendment Rights
- The Strength of Good Soldier Defense
- The Washington Post Covers Attorney Debra D’Agostino’s Pregnancy Retaliation Case
- They reported sexual harassment. Then the retaliation began
- Trump Admin Says It Will Comply With Court Order to Reunite Families Separated at the Border
- Trump likes nondisclosure agreements, but should federal agencies use secrecy pacts?
- Trump nominees show up for work without waiting for Senate approval
- Trump’s VA is Purging Civil Servants
- Trump’s plan to use VA firing practices at other agencies threatens civil service workers — and the public
- Trump’s security clearance action against Brennan poses threat to many, demonstrates need for due process
- Two Guatemalan Mothers Separated From Children Describe Hellacious Journeys to U.S.
- Two WAPA Employees Expose Purchase-Card Irregularity
- U.S. Army Officer Accused of Sex Crimes Against Officers and Civilians Blog 2012
- U.S. Government Contracts
- U.S. Senator Criticizes Defense Department Over Military Sex Crime Reporting
- U.S. VETERANS: NATIONAL TREASURE OR LAB RATS?
- U.S. Work Visas
- UCMJ Article 15 – Almost Everything You Need to Know
- Understanding Administrative Leave
- Understanding Article 32 Hearings
- Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury During Court-Martial
- Union sues Trump over workforce executive order
- USCIS to Implement Filipino World War II Veterans Parole Program
- Use FAR When Drafting Your Contract with The U.S. Government
- VA taking steps to assist veterans with sexual assault disability claims
- Victim Advocate-Victim Privilege (MRE 514) New Privilege to Look Out For
- Washington Post Discusses VA Protections with Attorney D’Agostino
- Washington Post Quotes Attorney Debra D’Agostino on Female Firefighter Issue
- What constitutes sexual harassment in the federal workforce? What to do if you are a victim
- What Does “Meaningful” Really Mean?
- When An Investigating Officer Wants to Ask You Questions, Get an Attorney Instead.
- When Tweets or Texts Can Cost You Your Job
- Who is the Real President of the Afghanistan National Olympic Committee?
- Woman Receives $120,000 for Disability and Age Discrimination
- Wrongful Employment Termination
- WSB-TV Speaks with Attorney Debra D’Agostino on VA Secretary Criticism, Firing of Problematic VA Employees
- WTOP follows the story of a mother and son who were separated for more than a month because of ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy
- You Must Obey Superior Officer Orders IMMEDIATELY – new change to the MCM
- Your Right To Remain Silent – UCMJ Article 31 – Use It