Doug Rawald is a highly experienced trial lawyer who has spent most of his career in the courtroom. Mr. Rawald has developed a reputation in the trial community for his thorough preparation, strong litigation skills and ability to persuade jurors. He has also spent half of his legal career working overseas, living in Germany, South Korea, and Iraq. Mr. Rawald understands the unique circumstances facing military members as they work around the globe.

Mr. Rawald has focused his legal career on trial work. He has represented several hundred military clients facing various forms of disciplinary actions ranging from felony level court martial trials to nonjudicial punishment and administrative actions. His court marital trial experience covers a wide variety of offenses, including possession of child pornography, sexual assault, drug use, and murder. Mr. Rawald was the lead military defense counsel for the first Air Force death penalty trial in a decade. He has an outstanding record of success defending members of all the US military branches at court martial, gaining numerous acquittals and ensuring fair treatment for members whom the government sought to punish too severely.

Mr. Rawald is a former member of the United States Air Force JAG Corps. During his years as a military defense attorney in the JAG Corps, Mr. Rawald’s superiors regarded him as a “master advocate and first-line criminal defense litigator,” as well as a “stellar” and “shrewd negotiator.” His record is “replete with countless successes” based upon his “unsurpassed work ethic.” While on active duty, Mr. Rawald developed a reputation of success before military juries that won the respect of his supervisors.

During his years in the JAG Corps, Mr. Rawald was hand-picked to become a Circuit Defense Counsel in Washington, DC, where he served as one of the top felony level defense attorneys on the east coast of the United States. Before that, Mr. Rawald served as the Area Defense Counsel at Kunsan Air Base in the Republic of Korea for one year and spent 18 months as the chief of military justice at Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany. His successes include the full acquittal of a senior NCO accused of child sexual assault, the full acquittal of an airman facing rape charges, acquittals of multiple clients facing charges of drug use, and numerous light sentences for clients facing the possibility of severe punishment.