MLM 93 - Attorney Patrick Hughes - Suing the Armed Forces - A Servicemember's recourse when denied Military Entitlements

Military Law & Life Matters

Patrick Hughes is the co-founder of Patriots Law Group, a law firm he started with his friend and former active duty Air Force JAG colleague, Michael Lyons. Pat served nearly seven years on active duty, and then transferred to the Reserve as he formed Patriots Law Group in 2017. He started as a prosecutor and his next assignment was as a defense counsel, where he was ranked the #1 of 84 area defense counsel globally. In his final assignment on active duty, he shifted his focus to civil litigation, and defended the Air Force in federal courts pertaining to matters involving, among other things, military pay disputes. There, he represented the Air Force in lawsuits brought by servicemembers involving claims where the military had unlawfully denied entitlements. Many of these cases involved claims of six or seven figure money demands and multiple class-action lawsuits. These cases were usually filed after a servicemember sought relief through the Board for Corrections of Military Records but was denied. Pat also defended the Air Force against federal civilian employees who brought discrimination claims before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and when challenging their adverse personnel actions before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).

In his private practice, Pat now represents servicemembers, primarily in the civil realm, including administrative claims brought in the boards for corrections of each military department, claims for military pay brought in the Court of Federal Claims or claims taken up in Federal District Courts.

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