Attorney Biography

Daily, Mr. Aramony personally continues to represent employees and adjudicate cases. The love of this practice is that most clients are of the highest caliber doing great things in their own work. Mr. Aramony also now represents a few select clients, and friends, in non-employment areas. A more precise summary of his experience follows. We omit case details to protect the identity of the client and for the same reason omit discussion of successes never seen by the public eye.

Since 1983, Mr. Aramony has adjudicated personnel security clearance cases before security offices and panels, central adjudication facilities, DOHA, and before other specialized entities and officials.

We have represented hundreds of federal employees faced with discipline, or fired, for misconduct. We handled several U.S. Constitutional issues. We defended a Bivens suit in U.S. District Court. After an insurance company hired Mr. Aramony, he was successful in assisting a high level Government official administratively on claims against him and in response to an attorney letter threatening to sue him in his personal capacity. At MSPB, we litigated USERRA, RIF, and indefinite suspension appeals, misconduct cases, whistle blowing, discrimination, and federal retirement appeals. We have represented many persons who because of their work have limited legal rights.

FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS (FSO) are subject to different statutes than are other federal employees (e.g., the Foreign Service Act). Their legal rights may stem from different rules (e.g., the Foreign Affairs Manual), and their remedies may be had from different jurisdictional forums than other federal employees, such as the Foreign Service Grievance Board with review by a U.S. District Court. Additionally, FSO must meet medical and security clearance mandates. Consequently, the legal issues are interesting. We have assisted many such Officers, sometimes in association with AFSA. Foreign Service Officers are an example of how even the law, not only legal problems, varies case from case, and how each person, and each case, is different.

Since 1979, Mr. Aramony has litigated and advised on contract, discrimination, stock options, black listing, pension rights, and non-compete agreements, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). ERISA pertains to retirement, health, disability, and other employee benefits. In Court, Mr. Aramony defended proprietary information, breach of loyalty, conspiracy to interfere with business, and trade secret law suits filed against his clients by former employers. He litigated compensation, subcontractor, and discrimination suits and policy tort actions (in 1997 a more than $700,000 jury verdict, $500,000 of it punitive damages, in 1997 dollars). However most people do not prefer litigation, they want a job. Mr. Aramony frequently assists employees how to avoid litigation or to mitigate the damage to them.

The federal law enforcement agents, and those civilians in classified jobs are held to the highest standards and their cases are differ from other employees for other reasons. The law enforcement clients tend to be sophisticated about the law. For both law enforcement agents and others in classified jobs, often a security clearance revocation, which disqualified the employee for his or her job, precedes any disciplinary action. These cases thus require care, judgment, and extensive experience as well as aggressive representation. The local and State officials who seek Mr. Aramony's services usually are police officers, probation officers, and other law enforcement officials. Most often the issues involve retirement plans or other complex legal issues that their local fraternal order or union do not handle.

. Mr. Aramony regularly assists both federal and contractor American employees stationed overseas. The legal issues and jurisdiction over the issues tend to be unique.

. Mr. Aramony has incorporated companies or established them as limited liability companies. He has continued to advise them as they grew. The business clients are select and intended for long term relationships. Each business client has done extremely well. Other clients have been assisted in conjunction with the West Coast attorney/manufacturer, in manufacturer, market, or foreign issues.

We advise Defense contractors and their employees on employment rights and responsibilities, and employee contracts. Commissioned- paid and executive personnel who work in the industry also regularly consult us.

Public Health Service Officers, and other health specialists consult us, and we help them. These personnel are subject to different statutes and rules than other federal employees.

Current and former service members come to us about security clearances and USERRA (for Reservists and National Guard) but also Medical Boards and PEBs, BCMR, DRB, money-claims (promotion or claimed over payments, usually), and similar non-UCMJ, matters. Some persons activated, deployed, or contracted in Iraq we assisted pro bono. We are taking limited disability claims to Department of Veterans Affairs or court, either through a service organization or for special cases, people we know or combat wounded who friends ask us to assist. The VA system can be cumbersome and take time for relief.

We have helped civilian and military persons after the U.S. Government acted to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship or other U.S. paid money after involuntary disenrollment or discharge from R.O.T.C., federal health agencies, and from other federal programs.

We have litigated cases under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, American Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Equal Pay Act, and other federal and state discrimination statutes. The litigation has included "reverse discrimination" cases.

We have litigated many cases to conclusion before jury and before judge-alone in U.S. District Courts, federal appellate courts, the United States Court of Federal Claims, in state courts, and before administrative bodies.

"A Legal Overview of Clearances and Suitability Adjudications," Copyright 2000 FINDLAW Published.

"Violence in the Work Place: Some Legal Considerations," Copyright 2000 FINDLAW Published.

"Adjudicating Federal Defense Contractor Employee Security Clearances," Navy REDCOM JURIS, October, 1986.

"Legal Developments" column, Regulatory Eye, 1981-1983.

"Harlow v. Fitzgerald, U.S. Constitutional Tort Suits," USNR Ex Parte Journal, October 1982.

Various lecture handouts, pamphlets.

2000-2004 –- Instructor. Naval Reserve Officer Leadership Course (two-day courses).

2000 "Violence in Workplace, Common Law Perspective" (For GMU graduate-degree Security Manager seminar).

1999 & 2000 "Violence in the Workplace" (Corporate manager training).

1998 Panel member with Government officials discussing security clearances and mental disabilities.

1998 Panel member with EEOC official discussing disability employment law before section 501 (c) (3) mental disability organization.

1996 "Individual Liability of Federal Managers" (Federal personnel official training).

1991 "Conflict of Interest" (Navy training).

Admitted to: U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Virginia, District of Columbia, and Maryland; the Federal Claims Court, and the appellate courts of the Federal, District of Columbia, and Fourth Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Bar Admissions Admitted to bar in 1978, South Carolina; 1979 District of Columbia; 1986 Virginia.

Naval Reserves, Judge Advocate General Corps, 1982-present. (CAPT., JAGC, USNR).

Chair, Military Law Committee, Bar Association of the District of Columbia (2006 - present)

Director, on Board Judge Advocate Association, interim fill (for Navy) (2008)

Executive Board, American Legion Post 24, Alexandria, Virginia, 2004-present.

Judge Advocates Association Inns of Court (2008 - present)

Military Officers Association (2007-present)

City of Alexandria George Washington Celebration Committee member (2006 to 2009).

Bar Association of District of Columbia President's Award June 2008