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Counsel in the record

The attorneys who appear in at least five public DOHA hearing decisions, including Department Counsel and applicant counsel. Also see the Administrative Judges.

Department Counsel

The government's attorneys, the side presenting the case against clearance. For attorneys and researchers, counsel history places a case within an attorney's record.

Applicant attorneys

Attorneys who appeared for applicants in published decisions. A volume count is not a quality ranking: harder cases are often the ones that reach a hearing at all.

Names come from the decisions themselves. Counsel appear only where the published decision names them; outcomes reflect the whole case, not any one participant. Descriptive of decided public cases, never a prediction, a ranking, or advice.