If you need the assistance of a defense attorney, please contact us for more information. Be prepared to provide an email and/or phone number where you can be reached for scheduling an appointment or to set up an initial consultation. You will also need to submit a request for services.

Please review the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and Defense / Personal Representative Services Addendum for more information about defense services. All communications with and advice from our office is strictly confidential and privileged.

If you need assistance with any of these issues, download the Request for Services and contact us.

• Administrative Separations
• Article 31b Rights
• Article 32 Investigations
• Attorney-Client Relationship
• Confinement
• Misconduct Allegations / Investigations
• Complaints of Wrongs
• Non-Judicial Punishment (NJP)/Office Hours
• Post-Trial Matters (Appeals, Clemency)

Service members may seek a remote consultation if restricted, underway, or otherwise unavailable to conduct a walk-in appointment. Service members seeking a remote consultation should scan and email a completed request for services form, a copy of the front and back of their military identification card, and any documents related to the reason for which they are seeking advice (e.g., NJP advisement/results, detachment for cause letter, or administrative separation notice) via encrypted email or DoD Safe (safe.apps.mil). The office will then coordinate a time to call when you can speak privately and confidentially with an attorney.

Appointments are optimal. However, defense clients (suspected or accused of misconduct or being subjected to administrative proceedings) may walk in for a consultation with defense counsel. Please refer to the contact information below for the available walk-in hours for each location. During walk-in hours, service members have the opportunity to consult with defense counsel regarding pre- and post-nonjudicial punishment advice, summary court-martial advice, Article 138 and 1150 complaints, administrative separation processing, hardship discharges, and suspect's rights. Although a defense counsel is available for consultation, the attorney and service member will not form an attorney-client relationship except in unusual circumstances.

If you are coming to see an attorney as a walk-in, be sure to bring any documents given to you related to the reason you are seeking advice. Simply come to our office and complete an intake form. Every effort will be made for you to speak with an attorney as quickly as possible.

Commands requesting that an attorney be detailed to an administrative separation board should complete the request for counsel and send it via encrypted e-mail to dsopaccounselrequest@us.navy.mil, including all required enclosures, to the office that services your location. Email addresses for those locations are listed above. Commands will be notified via email as soon as defense counsel is assigned. If there are exigent circumstances that may affect scheduling the board, please let us know of those circumstances when sending the request.