Carol Thompson
Top rated Government Contracts attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio
Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers
Practice areas: Government Contracts, Appellate, Civil Litigation; view more
Licensed in Ohio since: 2022
Education: The University of Tulsa College of Law
Selected to Rising Stars: 2022 - 2024 Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers
PO Box 8248Cincinnati, OH 45249 Phone: 513-582-7424 Email: Carol Thompson Visit website
Carol Thompson is a Partner with the Federal Practice Group. Her practice is focused on criminal and civil litigation, military defense, national security law, FOIA litigation, and government contracting. Within these fields, she represents active duty, reserve and guard, former servicemembers, and federal employees and contractors, with her representation ranging from assistance with adjudication of security clearances, administrative matters, disciplinary action, courts-martial, appeals, bid protests, and contract disputes.
Ms. Thompson’s representation includes assistance with applications for, and responses to denial or revocations of, security clearances with all respective agencies. She also assists with appeals of courts-martial and federal convictions; she has successfully over-turned convictions in both the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. As a judge advocate in the Marine Corps and former Special Assistant to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, she has a first-hand working knowledge of the unique administrative and legal systems within the intelligence communities, military, Department of Defense, and federal systems, and knows how to navigate each system respectively. Ms. Thompson has extensive experience with wrongful discharge claims before the various military correction boards and the Court of Federal Claims and has successfully petitioned for the removal of adverse documentation from servicemembers’ personnel files and for the upgrade of less than honorable characterizations of service. She has also successfully helped small businesses protest federal government contract bids when certain legal issues are present during the solicitation and award process.
Ms. Thompson is a graduate of The University of Tulsa College of Law and Texas A&M University and has a Masters in the Study of Law with a focus on Government Contracting and Procurement Law from the University of Dayton’s School of Law. She is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals. She is admitted to practice in Washington, D.C. and Oklahoma.
Practice areas
Government Contracts, Appellate, Civil Litigation: Defense, Military/Veterans LawFirst Admitted: 2009, Oklahoma
Professional Webpage: https://abkf.com/attorneys/carol-thompson/
Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)
- United States v. Lewis, No. 201900049 (N-M. Ct. Crim. App. Jun. 8, 2020): The client was originally charged with three theories of sexual assault: when the victim was incapable of consenting, while the victim was asleep, and via bodily harm (i.e., without the victim’s consent). Ms. Thompson represented the client at trial, where he was acquitted of the second two theories of liability. She again represented him on appeal, where she convinced the Navy-Marine Court of Criminal Appeals that the conviction of sexual when the victim was incapable of consenting due to intoxication by alcohol was factually and legally insufficient under the definition in United States v. Pease, 75 M.J. 180 (C.A.A.F. 2016), the very same case that Ms. Thompson won at the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. In Lewis, the Court set aside her client’s conviction with prejudice, meaning he will no longer have any conviction on his record., 2020
- United States v. Gilpin, No. 201900033 (N-M. Ct. Crim. App. Dec. 30, 2019): The client was originally charged with two theories of sexual assault: when the victim was incapable of consenting and while the victim was asleep, unconscious, or otherwise unaware. The military judge acquitted Gilpin of the theory of incapable of consenting and while the victim was unconscious, but found that he had committed the assault while the victim was asleep or otherwise unaware. By the time the case was up for appeal, the same judge who had convicted Gilpin at trial was not a siting judge at the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals. Ms. Thompson was retained for the appeal; using the government’s own expert testimony from trial, as well as an alternative theory of facts not previously argued by the trial defense, Ms. Thompson convinced the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal appeals that her client was not guilty of the offense a military judge previously convicted him of. In Gilpin, the Court set aside her client’s conviction with prejudice, meaning he will no longer have any conviction on his record., 2019
- Naval Discharge Review Board (MD16-01367): Ms. Thompson successfully upgraded the discharge of a Marine to Honorable when it was revealed the Marine Corps had discharged him with a general under honorable in violation of the applicable regulations., 2018
- Army v. CW2: CW2 facing a Board of Inquiry for a prior General Officer Memorandum of Record successfully retaine, 2018
- Security Clearances: Ms. Thompson has successfully retained the security clearances of several individuals faced with a notice on intent to revoke by the Department of Defense Consolidated Adjudication Facility. Reasons for the intent to deny included improper foreign connections, drug use, past criminal convictions, and financial issues.
- United States v. Pease, 75 M.J. 180 (C.A.A.F. 2016): Ms. Thompson and Mr. Montalvo were appellate defense counsel in this seminal case from the military’s highest appellate court, which defined “incapable of consenting,” an element of alcohol facilitated sexual assaults under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Under the definition established by this case, all of their client’s sexual assault convictions were set aside, and he was subsequently honorably discharged from the Marine Corps., 2016
- United States v. Zambrano, No. 201500002 (N-M. Ct. Crim. App. Jan. 19, 2016): Ms. Thompson and Mr. Montalvo were appellate defense counsel. They argued the military judge committed error when he used “human lie detector” testimony in finding the client guilty. The Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals agreed, and set aside the conviction thereby reinstating their client into the Marine Corps., 2016
- Army v. Captain: Captain facing a Board of Inquiry for a prior General Officer Memorandum of Record permitted to honorably retire., 2015
- Marine Corps v. CWO3: CWO3 facing a Board of Inquiry for alleged misconduct related to government contracting was retained, and ultimately allowed to retire., 2015
- Army v. Captain: Captain, who was a medical officer, faced a Board of Inquiry for substandard performance and misconduct. The officer was retained., 2014
Educational Background
- J.D., University of Tulsa College of Law, 2009
- Seton Hall University School of Law - Field Of Study Islamic Jurisprudence and International Criminal Law, 2008
- Texas A&M University, 2006
White Papers
- The Biden administration did not solicit bids for a multimillion contract to house migrant families in hotels and instead gave the massive contract to an organization whose leadership has ties to the White House, including one official who was on the Biden transition team. In its rush to stand up facilities to hold families who come over the southern borderillegally in rising numbers, the Biden administration signed a deal that a member of Congress and people with knowledge of the matter said presented a conflict of interest and wasted existing government facilities., EXCLUSIVE: ICE gave $87M no-bid contract to business with Biden ties, raising conflict of interest questions, Government Contracting, 2021
- Now that the Pentagon has said it will start requiring service members to get the Covid vaccine by mid-September through either a presidential waiver or approval from the Food and Drug Administration, what happens if troops refuse? Those military members should expect a range of penalties for doing so, military law experts said, ranging anywhere from a reprimand to confinement and getting kicked out of the military., DEFENSE Mandatory Covid vaccines for troops are coming. What happens if they refuse?, Military, 2021
- An organization with ties to the Biden administration was awarded a $530 million no-bid federal contract to care for unaccompanied migrant children after they have come across the southern border, a person familiar with the contract confirmed to the Washington Examiner. The Biden administration has, for the second time in a month, awarded a massive federal contract to the group without allowing other businesses and nonprofit groups to submit their proposals and bids for the job, Axios reported late Tuesday. Family Endeavors, a Texas-based nonprofit organization whose senior director for migrant services and federal affairs vetted and selected President Joe Biden's political appointees to the Department of Health and Human Services, was awarded an $87 million no-bid contract by HHS in March., HHS awarded group with Biden ties $530M no-bid contract to house migrant children, Immigration, 2021
- Congress Should End High Court's Military Immunity Doctrine, Law360, 2021
- If you work for the Defense Department, owning one of the most talked about and potentially lucrative stocks on the market may put your job in jeopardy. The DoD Consolidated Adjudications Facility’s current legal position is that ownership of marijuana stocks is considered involvement in drug-related activities, and would be a “reportable incident” under the continuous evaluation process. Potentially, it could lead to the loss of security clearances for service members, contractors and DoD civilians., Owning marijuana stocks may skunk your security clearance or chances of getting one, Security Clearance, 2019
- WASHINGTON (CN) – A House of Representatives committee on Wednesday demanded that the White House release information about its security clearance process, launching a Democratic-led investigation into potential breaches of national security. "The nation's most highly guarded secrets were provided to officials who should not have had access to them," Maryland Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, said in a letter to the White House., House Panel to Probe Trump Security Clearances, Security Clearance, 2019
Office location for Carol Thompson
PO Box 8248
Cincinnati, OH 45249
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2022 - 2024