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Amy’s approach as a white collar and federal criminal defense attorney is largely informed by her work in the federal government. Prior to her work as a white collar and federal criminal defense attorney, Amy served as a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS), where she led, coordinated, and otherwise supported a number of complex and high-profile federal cases and investigations.

After working for 22 years with the Judge Advocate General's Corps, Lisa retired as an Army Colonel and joined Tully Rinckey PLLC to continue practicing military law and serving the military community. Throughout Lisa's long military career, she was privileged to serve in many capacities, including military criminal defense counsel, legal assistance attorney, government representative in courts-martial and administrative separation boards, command legal advisor, deputy staff judge advocate and faculty instructor. She has special expertise in the areas of military criminal law and government ethics.. As a defense counsel for 9th Infantry Division and 1st Corps, and senior trial counsel for 1st Cavalry Division, Lisa has personally tried over 75 courts-martial and represented the government in over 100 administrative hearings. She has personally investigated dozens of cases and conducted countless witness interviews. As a litigator, she concentrated on offenses of child sexual abuse, drug distribution and aggravated assault. She also has worked on cases involving the mental incapacity defense. With her JAG experience, Lisa is very familiar with how government attorneys will approach active and veteran service members' cases, and she can incorporate this knowledge into an aggressive criminal defense strategy.. In the four-year period before Lisa joined Tully Rinckey PLLC, she served as a training branch chief for the U.S. Army Reserve Legal Command (LC) and a faculty instructor at the U.S. Army War College. At LC, she was responsible for the training and development of over 1,700 reserve attorneys, paralegals and legal administrators. For the seven-year period prior to this training experience, she served as a deputy staff judge advocate for the 63rd Regional Readiness Command and the 9th Regional Support Command. For years, Lisa has supervised, led and trained military attorneys and advised military commanders, and she will pull from this experience when squaring off against government prosecutors in court to defend the rights of service members.. Lisa received her juris doctorate from the University of Houston Law Center. Additionally, she received a master's of strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College, a master's degree in applied clinical psychology from Penn State and a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas Arlington. Her numerous military awards include the Legion of Merit and Meritorious Service Medal with silver oak cluster. She has also written research papers on secondary traumatization in military spouses, the affects of combat, sexual assault and post-traumatic stress disorder in female veterans and the effectiveness of current interrogation methods on Islamic fundamentalists.. Lisa currently lives in Washington, D.C. and has served as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, the Hawaii International Film Festival and the LA Harbor International Film Festival. She is a member of the Texas Bar Association – Military Law Section and a lifelong member of the U. S. Army War College Alumni Association.. ADMITTED TO PRACTICE IN TEXAS. NOT ADMITTED TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PRACTICE LIMITED TO PROVIDING LEGAL SERVICES TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SOLELY BEFORE A SPECIAL COURT, DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.

A Senior Partner at Ashcraft & Gerel, Lawrence J. Pascal has been representing injured workers in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and New York for more than 45 years. Mr. Pascal is widely regarded as an authority on workers’ compensation laws, having authored Virginia Workers’ Compensation, Law and Practice, a much-used reference tool for workers’ comp lawyers and law students alike. In addition to workers’ compensation law, Mr. Pascal represents plaintiffs in Ashcraft & Gerel’s mass tort practice, as well as serious personal injury cases involving third-party liability and medical malpractice.Mr. Pascal has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious Virginia Super Lawyers® and Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers® lists. He has also been recognized in Best Lawyers in America® every year from 1995 through the present. He is admitted to practice in state courts in New York, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, as well as in the U.S. Supreme Court.