Practice Areas
What
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Cacciatore Legal helps federal government employees, airmen and mechanics, and military service members navigate agency processes and protect their careers. Every matter is unique.
From counselor contact to hearing-deadlines, theory, and evidence organized early.
Representation for federal whistleblower retaliation claims, prohibited personnel practices, and MSPB appeals nationwide.
Appeal rights, timelines, filings, and settlement posture for terminations and suspensions.
Stabilize expectations, create a defensible written record, and open negotiation windows.
We create a defensible outcome that preserves your government career and dignity before an adverse action comes into play.
Job accommodation requests, medical documentation strategy, and the interactive
process.
DAB appeals, clinical privileges, and NPDB matters. We help figure out your process, deadline, and rights you have.
Legal guidance for FAA certificate actions, NTSB investigations, aircraft transactions, and aircraft operations.
Overcome FAA deferrals, denials, and Special Issuance requests-with your physician/AME.
Helping owners structure deals and ownership arrangements that hold up in the real world.
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.
Federal employees who report government wrongdoing may face retaliation, discipline, reassignment, or other adverse personnel actions. Cacciatore Legal represents federal employees in whistleblower retaliation and prohibited personnel practice (PPP) matters, including complaints before the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and related proceedings before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).
Our attorneys help federal employees evaluate whether a disclosure is legally protected, identify personnel actions that may constitute retaliation, determine whether OSC or MSPB is the appropriate forum, prepare or review OSC complaints, and pursue Individual Right of Action (IRA) appeals when available. Because procedural deadlines and forum requirements can affect a whistleblower’s ability to pursue later remedies, understanding the available options early can be important.
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.
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.
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.
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.
VA health care professionals can face complex employment, disciplinary, clinical privileging, and National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) issues under Title 38. Cacciatore Legal represents VA physicians, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, therapists, and other federal health care professionals in Title 38 and hybrid Title 38 matters, including Disciplinary Appeals Board (DAB) appeals, Title 38 grievances, clinical privileges actions, fair hearings, probationary proceedings, and NPDB reporting issues.
Because the rules differ based on your appointment authority, occupation, probationary status, and the type of action VA is taking, identifying the correct legal process early can be critical. Our attorneys have experience advising VA medical centers and HR offices and now use that knowledge to represent VA employees facing disciplinary and professional actions.
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.
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.
We help owners structure deals and ownership arrangements that hold up in the real world: when the prebuy finds surprises, when the engine needs overhaul early, when a partner stops paying, when a member wants to “rent it to a friend,” or when an insurer asks hard questions after an incident.
Military Service Members (Administrative Actions)
For service members and with military-related matters, we assist with administrative investigations, military discharge upgrades 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.