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Ms. Thompson is a Senior Associate at the Federal Practice Group and in this role specializes in military law. Prior to coming to the firm she served as a Judge Advocate in the United States Marine Corps, she held the titles of prosecutor, defense counsel, and Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. While in law school, she spent one year interning for the Tulsa County Public Defender's Office and another year interning with the General Counsel for the Tulsa County Tax Assessor's office.. Ms. Thompson earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Tulsa, College of Law with a Certificate in International Law. In addition to maintaining two internships and graduating a semester early, Carol completed a study abroad program to Cairo, Egypt with Seton Hall University School of Law and the American University in Cairo, where she studied Islamic Jurisprudence and International Criminal Law. Prior to attending the University of Tulsa, Carol graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science, and a minor in Economics.

Joel L. Pettit is a former Marine Corps Judge Advocate and solo practitioner based in Washington, DC, specializing in all phases of the Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES). He has advised or represented over 1000 Service members and veterans during Informal and Formal Physical Evaluation Boards (IPEB and FPEB, respectively), post-FPEB appeals, and VA appeals.. Additionally, Joel assists Service members with everything from Medical Evaluation Boards (MEB) and military record corrections to Medical Readiness Reviews (MRR), Line of Duty (LOD) issues, and veteran disability appeals. Joel has the depth of experience to tackle any issue related to the IDES.. Prior to founding Joel Pettit Law, Joel worked for the Department of the Navy in its elite Temporary Disability Retirement List (TDRL) Unit at the FPEB aboard the Washington Navy Yard.. Between Joel’s Marine Corps career and his most recent FPEB position, Joel served as a Counterespionage and Counterintelligence Special Advisor with the FBI and as a healthcare executive at DaVita Kidney Care.. Joel is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History, and a Master of Business degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, with focuses on Finance, Accounting and Economics. He received his Juris Doctor, with concentrations in Employment and Securities Law, from Washington University in St Louis School of Law.. Although Joel lives in Washington, DC, he is a native Californian raised between Los Angeles and San Francisco. In his free time, he enjoys studying Greek and Roman philosophy and watching F-1 racing.

I first came to the United States in 1972 from London, England, where I was born and had grown up.. I have been practicing military law for 44 years now doing courts-martial and court-martial appeals and adverse actions like Boards of Inquiry.. I have practiced military law before all the U.S. military courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the International Criminal Court.. I am a founding partner of Cave & Freeburg, LLP,

I am a former active duty military JAG attorney.  I spent the majority of my active duty JAG career as a military defense counsel.  When I was a JAG, I served first as a base level military prosecutor, and then was selected to serve as a base level military defense counsel and then as a regional military defense counsel.. I have been handling military cases, on and off active duty, continuously since 1995.  As a civilian court-martial defense attorney and military defense lawyer, I exclusively handle military cases because I care so deeply about representing and defending those who serve in the military and defend all of us.  I handle all types of military cases involving disciplinary and adverse actions, including court-martial defense, defense against administrative boards such as administrative discharge/separation boards, FEBs, MEB/PEBs, Discharge Review Board, Board of Corrections for Military Records, etc. I represent military clients facing military discipline, adverse administrative actions, appeals and investigations.  I offer free initial case consultations.

I aggressively defend service members in the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard worldwide and have been involved in some of the most notable American courts-martial and military cases. I fight for you in military trials throughout the United States, Europe, the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.. I have practiced as a prosecutor, as a Division Chief of Military Justice, as a military defense attorney and then I was handpicked to train and advise Army defense lawyers worldwide for the U.S. Army Defense Counsel Assistance Program. During my time on active duty, I tried or consulted on the most well-known cases in military, some with worldwide recognition.  I have defended people accused of premeditated murder, rape, child rape, espionage, sexual assault, fraud, aggravated assault and other serious crimes, often receiving full acquittals or an acquittal on all of the serious charges.  I have taught CLE (Continuing Legal Education) classes on courtroom skills to hundreds of lawyers across the United States and even in Germany and South Korea.  My primary hobbies are running marathons and ultra marathons, playing and watching football and basketball, and reading up on the latest developments in criminal law and trial advocacy.

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.