MCO 5354.1F Marine Corps Prohibited Activities and Conduct Prevention and Response In April 2021, the Marine Corps released MCO 5354.1F. The new Marine Corps Equal Opportunity (EO) policy consolidated guidance on equal opportunity, harassment (both sexual and otherwise), dissident and protest activity, bullying, hazing, and a host of other concerns. It is now the one-stop-shop […]

Korody Law – Serving Members of the Military Worldwide. Korody Law brings more than 25 years total military service to the table.  Firm Founder and Attorney Patrick Korody spent 10 years on active duty in the Navy JAG Corps.  He has handled military justice cases around the world including on the ground in Iraq and

Psycho-Sexual Evaluations A psycho-sexual evaluation is a structured interview and a battery of psychological assessments designed to evaluate sexual interests and sexual behavior.  Attorney Patrick Korody is an experienced sex crimes attorney.  If you are charged with a military sex crime or a state or federal sex crime in or around Jacksonville, Florida, call Attorney

The Department of Defense and its military departments are moving all security clearances for military members, civilian employees, and contractors to a continuous evaluation (CE) investigative process.  This means that the DoD will be doing continuous vetting – that is searching commercial and government records databases – for adverse information about security holders.  No longer

DoD’s New Level of Review for Military Discharges: The Discharge Appeals Review Board (DARB) On April 7, 2021 the Department of Defense (DoD) announced a new level of review for those discharged after December 20, 2019: The Discharge Appeal Review Board (DARB). The DARB is not run by the military departments – i.e. the Department

Do character references actually help? It is easy to read a Security Clearance Statement of Reasons (SOR) or Security Clearance Letter of Intent (LOI) and assume that your character is being called into question. In certain cases, the listed “concern” or the “factors that may raise a security concern” listed in the SOR or LOI

Security Clearance Guideline B: Foreign Influence  The Security Adjudicative Guidelines (often referred to collectively as “The Guidelines”) are outlined in Security Executive Agent Directive 4 (SEAD 4). They have been adopted within the U.S. Government as the primary source for determining security clearance eligibility. Guideline B of the security clearance Guidelines specifically addresses concerns surrounding

Responding to a Security Clearance Statement of Reasons (SOR) Korody Law has handled security clearance cases since 2009. While most cases stem from DoD as the largest clearance grantor in the U.S. government, we have handled cases across the intelligence community. A Statement of Reasons (SOR) is a document informing a security clearance applicant or

Korody Law has defended sexual assault cases at court-martial and in state courts.  Both the military and state courts have been forced to pursue sexual assault cases that they would not have pursued 10 or 15 years ago because of the political pressures related to sexual assault and sexual harassment and the victims’ rights movement. 

Do police have a right to stop me if I have done nothing wrong? Whether the police have a right to stop you depends not on what you know but on what the police believe.  Obviously the police can stop you if you have committed a traffic violation or a crime a in their presence.