Professional Biography
Blake Kamoroff
Former Army JAG, former prosecutor, former defense counsel, former senior defense counsel, Senior Military Justice Practitioner, and retired Army officer focused on GOMOR, Article 15, investigation, and military administrative defense.
Military Justice Background
Experience built inside the military justice system.
Blake Kamoroff is a former Army Judge Advocate — commonly referred to as an Army JAG — and a retired Army officer. His military justice background includes service as a prosecutor, defense counsel, and senior defense counsel. He is also certified as a Senior Military Justice Practitioner.
His experience includes approximately 200 court-martial cases, including more than 50 that went to trial; enlisted administrative separation boards; officer elimination and show-cause boards; Article 15 nonjudicial punishment cases; General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand rebuttals; law-enforcement investigations; command investigations; Article 138 complaints; Congressional inquiries; and related military justice matters.
He has handled military justice cases at every stage and has trained and supervised attorneys and paralegals handling military justice work.
Education
Education and legal training.
Mr. Kamoroff attended Duke University and earned his law degree from Emory University School of Law. That academic background supports a practice built around careful analysis, persuasive writing, and disciplined military-defense strategy.
Education and professional judgment
Strong military-defense work depends on judgment, disciplined analysis, and careful writing. Education does not replace military-justice experience, but it helps complete the professional picture.
Practice Design
A deliberately small military defense practice.
Mr. Kamoroff intentionally keeps his practice small and focused so he can do his best work for each client’s covered administrative matter. Clients are not passed from intake staff to junior attorneys. Once representation begins, clients receive his direct cell phone number and can communicate with him by phone and text throughout the matter.
He also limits overlapping suspense-driven matters so he is not forced to choose between clients with competing deadlines.
Built for deadline-driven defense.
This practice design is especially important for GOMOR rebuttals, Article 15/NJP responses, investigations, and Article 138 complaints because the quality of the early response can shape everything that follows.
Separation and Elimination-Board Experience
More than 120 boards defending Soldiers and Officers.
Mr. Kamoroff has represented Soldiers and Officers at more than 120 administrative separation and officer elimination boards. That experience is central to how he approaches GOMOR rebuttals, Article 15/NJP responses, and investigations.
When a case is handled poorly at the early stage, the same record can later become the foundation for separation or elimination. Mr. Kamoroff’s practice is designed to fight hard before the case reaches that point.
Early wins matter.
The goal is not merely to respond. The goal is to prevent false, exaggerated, or overstated allegations from becoming the official record used to justify more serious action later.
Litigation Experience Informing Administrative Strategy
Extensive litigation experience that strengthens administrative defense strategy.
Mr. Kamoroff has represented clients in approximately 200 court-martial cases, including more than 50 cases that went to trial. In many court-martial matters, he was able to help secure dismissal or reduction to a lower-level form of action before a contested trial became necessary.
Although this practice is focused on GOMOR rebuttals, Article 15/NJP responses, investigations, and related administrative matters, that court-martial experience matters. It helps Mr. Kamoroff evaluate how allegations can escalate, how government theories are built, and how early administrative defense can protect the client before the case becomes more serious.
Why it matters now
Early-stage administrative defense is stronger when the attorney understands what can happen if the case is mishandled and the record later becomes the basis for separation, elimination, or criminal prosecution.
Reputation and Judgment
Recognized by peers for military justice skill.
Throughout his military justice career, Mr. Kamoroff was repeatedly evaluated at the top of the military justice attorneys around him, including within offices, commands, and regional practice environments. Attorneys and paralegals who worked with him often told him that if they ever needed help with a military justice matter, he would be the lawyer they would call.
That kind of reputation matters because GOMOR rebuttals, Article 15 responses, and investigations are not just legal-writing exercises. They require judgment, credibility, command awareness, evidence selection, and the ability to persuade military decision-makers before a career-damaging record becomes permanent.
Not just regulations. Strategy.
Strong military defense requires understanding the law, the evidence, the command environment, the human facts, and the story that can make a decision-maker see the Soldier differently.
Client-Centered Defense
Defense strategy built around the person, not just the packet.
Mr. Kamoroff’s approach emphasizes more than technical argument. A persuasive response must show who the Soldier is, what the command may be missing, what the evidence actually proves, and why the proposed action would be unjust, excessive, or inconsistent with the Soldier’s record and future potential.
For GOMOR and Article 15 matters in particular, the goal is often to protect the client before the command narrative becomes permanent. That means identifying the strongest facts early, developing favorable evidence, addressing damaging facts directly, and presenting the client’s story in a way that gives the decision-maker a reason to choose a better outcome.
Experience Includes
Military Justice Roles
Former Army JAG, prosecutor, defense counsel, senior defense counsel, Senior Military Justice Practitioner, and retired Army officer.
Administrative Defense
GOMOR rebuttals, Article 15 responses, investigations, Article 138 complaints, and more than 120 administrative separation and officer elimination boards.
Persuasive Case Strategy
Defense preparation that blends evidence, law, command psychology, mitigation, credibility, and the client’s individual story.
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