Practice Areas
What
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Cacciatore Legal helps federal government employees, airmen and mechanics, and military servicemembers navigate agency processes and protect their careers. Every matter is unique.
This Isn’t Just About a Case. It’s About Your Career, Reputation, and Dignity.
You worked years to build your federal career. One investigation or poorly handled response shouldn’t define it. Early, strategic advocacy can mean the difference between: A manageable outcome, or a permanent mark on your record.
Legal Practice Areas
We create a defensible outcome that preserves your government career and dignity before an adverse action comes into play.
Appeal rights, timelines, filings, and settlement posture for terminations and suspensions.
Job accommodation requests, medical documentation strategy, and the interactive
process.
From counselor contact to hearing-deadlines, theory, and evidence organized early.
Stabilize expectations, create a defensible written record, and open negotiation windows.
Overcome FAA deferrals, denials, and Special Issuance requests-with your physician/AME
FAA certificate actions, NTSB investigations, aircraft transactions, and aircraft operations.
Proposed Discipline & Employee Investigations
Proposed Discipline
This is when your employer tells you they are thinking about taking disciplinary action against you, such as a suspension or removal. You are given a chance to respond and explain your side before anything is final. It is a warning that discipline may happen, not the final decision. When an attorney gets involved at this step, they can help stop an adverse action before it happens and save you and the agency time and money.
Agency Investigations
This is when your employer looks into a possible problem, like misconduct or a rule violation. They gather facts, review documents, and may interview people to figure out what happened. It does not automatically mean you are in trouble—it just means they are checking things out. An attorney can help analyze the evidence and create a strong defense or solution before any official proposed discipline, and help keep it off any employment record.
MSPB Appeals (Adverse Actions & Whistleblower)
Merit Systems Protection Board cases are fast-moving and technical. We represent employees in appeals of removals, demotions, and suspensions over 14 days, as well as performance-based actions and certain whistleblower/IRA matters. We focus on the record—charges, penalties, nexus, harmful error, and affirmative defenses—so your case is presented clearly.
Note: MSPB filing windows are short (often 30 days); consult promptly.
Reasonable Accommodations (Disability, Religion & Pregnancy)
If a medical condition, disability, sincerely held religious belief, or pregnancy/post-partum need affects your work, agencies must consider reasonable accommodation unless it would cause undue hardship. We help you request accommodations, document the interactive process, and challenge denials. We also advise on related options such as reassignment and, when appropriate, disability retirement pathways.
Typical accommodations: telework, schedule changes, ergonomic equipment, quiet/low-stimulus workspace, lactation/pumping access, temporary duty modifications.
Federal Employee EEO (Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation)
Federal applicants and employees are protected by laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, and reprisal. We guide you through the federal EEO process—from initial counseling and ADR to investigation, hearings before an EEOC Administrative Judge, and appeals.
Important: some EEO steps have short deadlines (for example, contacting an EEO Counselor is often required within 45 calendar days of the event).
Common issues: hostile work environment, non-selection/promotion, termination, unequal pay/discipline, retaliation.
PIPs & Disciplinary Actions
These actions are about job performance, not misconduct. A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) gives you clear goals and time to improve your work. If performance does not improve, the agency can take further action under specific rules, such as escalating to a disciplinary action.
Disciplinary actions are the final decision after you’ve had a chance to respond to proposed discipline for a specific policy violation or misconduct. The agency decides whether to move forward, reduce, or cancel the discipline. At this point, the action becomes official.
FAA Medical Certification
Medical questions can threaten flying privileges. We advise on applications, documentation strategy, and Special Issuance pathways, and coordinate with your AME when appropriate. Early planning often reduces delays and surprises.
Topics: reporting strategy, prior conditions and medications, substance-related histories, sleep apnea/CPAP, SSRIs, HIMS-related questions, deferrals.
FAA Enforcement & Investigations (Pilots/Mechanics/Operators)
Merit Systems Protection Board cases are fast-moving and technical. We represent employees in appeals of removals, demotions, and suspensions over 14 days, as well as performance-based actions and certain whistleblower/IRA matters. We focus on the record—charges, penalties, nexus, harmful error, and affirmative defenses—so your case is presented clearly.
Buying or selling an aircraft is both legal and technical. We prepare and review purchase agreements, coordinate pre-buys and escrow, and handle registration/ownership structures so the paperwork matches the airplane.
Matters we handle: LOIs, 709 rechecks, emergency/non-emergency certificate actions, reporting issues, ramp/incident investigations, letters of intent, contract terms, title/lien searches, escrow/closing, registration and ownership changes.
Military Servicemembers (Administrative Actions)
For servicemembers and with military-related matters, we assist with administrative investigations and corrective actions, and advise on employment protections such as USERRA.
Examples: command investigations, responses to proposed adverse action, security-clearance-adjacent issues, USERRA discrimination/retaliation questions.
Not Sure Where Your Issue Fits?
Many matters touch more than one process (EEO, MSPB, FAA, medical, or military). We’ll help you map the right path forward based on your facts and deadlines.