Citizen Soldier Law: A Veteran-Owned Practice for MEB, PEB, and Courts-Martial, Led by a New Jersey Certified Criminal Trial Attorney

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Citizen Soldier Law, the trade name of Thomas Roughneen & Associates, Counsellors at Law, LLC, is a veteran-owned firm founded in 2013 to advise servicemembers injured while still serving. Founding attorney Thomas Roughneen served in the Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve beginning in 1988, retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, and served as Senior Defense Counsel for the Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey Army National Guards and as an Army Physical Evaluation Board adjudicator. He is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a Certified Criminal Trial Attorney designated by the New Jersey Supreme Court.

The firm handles Medical and Physical Evaluation Boards, administrative separations, security clearance revocations, Combat-Related Special Compensation claims, courts-martial, and Department of Veterans Affairs appeals for every branch of service. Criminal law, domestic violence, and weapons-possession matters for servicemembers are also part of the docket, as are board-of-corrections and discharge-review filings. The team brings more than one hundred years of combined military service and includes a board-certified physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Attorneys practicing with the firm include Allan Marain, Rachel Marshall, Anthony Sciaraffa, Robert Weisneck, Peter A. Vanderland, Jr., and Corey D. Bean.

The practice is headquartered in Hackettstown, New Jersey, with an additional location in Alabama, and it serves servicemembers, veterans, and their families nationwide. The firm's Google rating is 4.7 from 63 reviews.

A Physical Evaluation Board that Roughneen once sat on as an adjudicator is the same kind of proceeding the firm now handles for clients, and a courts-martial defense can be led by a lawyer the New Jersey Supreme Court has certified in criminal trial work. That military-legal path, not a general criminal or injury listing, is what the 2013 firm was opened to do.

Citizen Soldier Law
1 Edgeview Dr, Suite C, Hackettstown, NJ 07840
973-937-6010
https://www.citizensoldierlaw.com/