BRIAN GORMAN
Attorney
Arlington,VA
Summary
Accomplished legal affairs professional with a track record of providing strategic legal advice to international and governmental agencies. Skilled in mentoring and training diverse entities on a wide range of legal topics, demonstrating a proven ability to conduct legal research and lead trial litigation. Recognized for exceptional communication skills, forming strategic partnerships, and maintaining a Top Secret security clearance. Expertise in litigation management, strategic legal planning, and risk assessment, with a strong focus on team collaboration to achieve results amidst evolving business needs.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Deputy General Counsel
US Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel-Office of Information Counsel
04.2024 - Current
- Document Review: Implement a standardized process for preparing and reviewing official documents, including memoranda, legal opinions, and reports. This process should emphasize accuracy, clarity, and adherence to legal standards.
- Support to Leadership: Act as a legal advisor to the Director and other attorneys, providing guidance on complex legal issues within the Office of Information Counsel's scope. Ensure that all legal advice is thoroughly researched and considers potential impacts on the agency's operations and compliance obligations.
- Comprehensive Legal Support: Offer legal support across various issues, ensuring that clients receive clear, actionable advice on matters such as FOIA requests, privacy concerns, records management, and litigation.
- Broad Legal Issue Coverage: Maintain responsibility for a wide range of legal issues, including those related to information management, privacy, and compliance with federal regulations. Provide strategic legal advice to ensure the agency meets its legal obligations while achieving its operational objectives.
- FOIA Compliance: Demonstrate proficiency in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), providing advice on the disclosure of information, exemptions, and appeal processes.
- Privacy Act: Ensure the protection of individual privacy rights under the Privacy Act, advising on the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information.
- Quality Assurance: Implement a quality assurance process for all legal advice and documents produced by the office to maintain high standards of legal service and client satisfaction.
- Legal Sufficiency Review: Evaluating decisions, actions, or documents to ensure they meet all statutory, regulatory, and policy requirements for various components with the Office of General Counsel-US Department of Defense which includes preparing thorough legal opinions or memoranda that assess compliance and provide recommendations for corrective actions if necessary.
- Policy and Regulation Interpretation: Applying in-depth knowledge of relevant laws and regulations to evaluate policy documents and administrative decisions.
- Full-time 40+hours per week
- GS-13 Step 10
Program Officer
Institute for International Law and Human Rights (IILHR)
01.2023 - 03.2024
- Implementing of primary program objective; ensuring Iraqi citizen access to identity documents.
- Preparing detailed report on the status, progress and plans going forward to achieve program objective of assisting Iraqi government in providing civil identity documents for all Iraqi citizens.
- Overseeing the day-to-day activities of the project while deployed to Iraq.
- Consulting with key actors within the Iraqi government, civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to secure agreements to implement identity document programs throughout Iraq and Kurdistan.
- Working with US State Department, United Nations, and other international actors to ensure clear communication and unity of effort in addressing the national identity document dilemma for thousands of Iraqi citizens so they can access basic human rights such as housing, food, access to schooling and healthcare.
- Responsible for program providing consultations with Iraqi government to reintegrate and rehabilitate disenfranchised groups, streamline civil identity documentary processes, and provide a more rapid access to civil identity documents as an essential need to provide security for all Iraqi society.
- Full-time 40+hours per week
Assistant District Attorney
DeKalb County Office of the District Attorney
04.2022 - 12.2022
- Serving as an ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) grant recipient Assistant District Attorney
- Assigned to handle major felony Covid related backlog cases with main assignment to prepare cases for Grand Jury, draft indictments, ensure files are complete for presentation.
- Analyze and assess cases for prosecution determination, charging decisions, diversion referral and/or dismissal.
- Conduct bond hearings weekly, having already argued over 160 cases since April 2022.
- Handle other prosecutorial assignments as requested such as being duty attorney, and fill-in ADA for other court calendars as needed.
- Full-time 40+hours per week
- Managed caseloads efficiently while maintaining attention to detail and prioritizing high-profile or time-sensitive cases.
- Collaborated with victim advocates to ensure victims were informed of their rights and supported throughout the legal process.
- Prepared and filed pleadings, motions and other legal documents in court proceedings.
- Developed strategies for court proceedings and negotiations.
- Reviewed and analyzed pertinent state and federal laws and legal precedents.
- Analyzed legal documents and identified pertinent issues for clients.
Project Attorney
United Lex, Legal People, Legility Law
02.2020 - 04.2022
- Electronic review of civil litigation work product to determine proper annotations and redactions of discovery documents prior to commencement of litigation.
- Utilize various document review platforms such as Relativity for conducting discovery research for clients in anticipation of major litigation action.
- Analyzing complex legal documents including emails, contracts, Excel spreadsheets and financial documents.
- Review documents for responsiveness, confidentiality, privilege, and relevant issue codes.
- Perform quality control as needed in re-review processes.
- Perform both Native and Tiff redactions as needed.
- Full-time 40+hours per week
- Consistently met deadlines under tight time constraints without compromising the quality of work performed.
- Analyzed legal documents for compliance with regulatory standards and best practices.
- Conducted thorough risk assessments to identify potential legal challenges in projects.
Short Term Training Advisor (STTA) for Justice Sector Support Program (JSSP)
Tetra Tech
10.2019 - 12.2019
- Lead International Advisor to Legislative Capacity Building (LCB) team responsible for daily operations for Afghan based team.
- Provided budget approval and oversight for trainings, team activities.
- Planned trainings with team members.
- Filed responses to technical questions for the customer (INL)
- Reviewed and edited all reports such as weekly, monthly, quarterly reports.
- Drafted the required LCB responses and edits for the Work Plan, Pro Plan as well as tracked data for Dev Results.
- Prepared transition efforts for 2020 handover of JSSP taskings to Afghan colleagues within the Afghan Ministry of Justice Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Working Groups.
- Full-time 40+hours per week
Afghan Law Advisor Counter Corruption Advisory Group (CCAG)
CACI
12.2018 - 09.2019
- Legal Advisor/Program implementer to the Counter Corruption Advisory Group (CCAG) regarding anti-corruption programs in Afghanistan as part of US Department of Defense program.
- My efforts included implementing reform at the Afghan Ministry of Interior (MOI) aimed at addressing and correcting police misconduct by drafting policy letters and memos for personnel at MOI so officers would be informed of the legal and ethical conduct expected of Afghan National Police.
- Conducted regular meetings with international partners and Afghan government officials with express purpose of coordinating and pushing forward police reforms.
- Developed strategies for counterterrorism and counter-corruption efforts by assessing and reviewing the links to terrorism with human trafficking, narcotics trade, and illegal business dealings.
- Full-time 40+hours per week
Legal Advisor to Afghanistan Anti-Terror Prosecutor Division (ATPD)
Adam Smith International
06.2015 - 12.2015
- Led classroom instruction for Afghan anti-terrorism prosecutors on multiple subjects, which included advanced evidence, critical thinking, legal writing, advanced criminal procedure, and constitutional law and counter-terrorism statutes.
- Drafted curriculum, case studies, and class materials for anti-terrorism prosecutors.
- Conducted classes on anti-corruption laws while mentoring prosecutors on inherent dangers of corruption and its impact on the rule of law in Afghanistan.
- Developed strategies for counterterrorism and counter-corruption prosecutions by assessing and reviewing the links to terrorism with human trafficking, narcotics trade, and illegal business dealings.
- Full-time 40+hours per week
Senior Assistant Solicitor General
DeKalb County
06.2012 - 06.2015
- Served as Senior Supervising Attorney for trial team of State Court of Georgia, which included trial partners, investigator, and support staff.
- Drafted thousands of criminal accusations for future prosecution and prepared appellate briefs, tried 20+ jury trials and hundreds of bench trials.
- Interpreted and applied laws, court decisions and other legal authorities for use in trial preparation.
- Full-time 40+hours per week
Education
J.D. -
Vermont Law School
South Royalton, VT05-1997
B.S. - Criminal Justice
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA06-1991
Skills
- International legal expertise
- Trial advocacy skills
- Advancement in legal skills
- Organizational enhancement
- Policy and strategy team collaboration
- Effective communicator
- Strong verbal and written communication
- Information law compliance knowledge
- E-discovery analysis skills
- Privacy and ethics specialist
Accomplishments
- Authored and published policy report titled "Reclaiming Identity: Strategies for Civil Documentation in Iraq"
- Trained hundreds of legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, criminal investigators) across Afghanistan on principles of ensuring rule of law compliance.
- Drafted counter-corruption legislation, policy guidelines for the government of Afghanistan as part of international initiatives on the transition of the national police from military role to a more civilian program.
- As a litigator served as first chair for hundreds of criminal cases-bench and jury trials-both as defense counsel and later as a state prosecutor.
- As project attorney reviewed thousands of documents for responsiveness, quality control and privilege in high stakes civil litigation for large corporations (Google, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson) across a variety of review platforms that included Relativity, Reveal, Veritas.
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Timeline
Associate Deputy General Counsel
US Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel-Office of Information Counsel
04.2024 - Current
Program Officer
Institute for International Law and Human Rights (IILHR)
01.2023 - 03.2024
Assistant District Attorney
DeKalb County Office of the District Attorney
04.2022 - 12.2022
Project Attorney
United Lex, Legal People, Legility Law
02.2020 - 04.2022
Short Term Training Advisor (STTA) for Justice Sector Support Program (JSSP)
Tetra Tech
10.2019 - 12.2019
Afghan Law Advisor Counter Corruption Advisory Group (CCAG)
CACI
12.2018 - 09.2019
Legal Advisor to Afghanistan Anti-Terror Prosecutor Division (ATPD)
Adam Smith International
06.2015 - 12.2015
Senior Assistant Solicitor General
DeKalb County
06.2012 - 06.2015
J.D. -
Vermont Law School
B.S. - Criminal Justice
Georgia State University
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