Musolino and Dessel in the News

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Rudy Atallah has been appointed to serve as Director of Counterterrorism at the National Security Council and Special Advisor to the President.

J. Peter Pham has been appointed to serve as the Department of State U.S.-Africa Advisor.

Joe Foltz has been appointed to lead the Africa desk at the National Security Council. 

We congratulate each of these talented experts on their appointments and wish them good luck on their critical work ahead.

On October 17 and November 25, 2024, the Firm received arbitration awards on virtually all of its claims on behalf of a commercial client seeking reinstatement of funds diverted from its account under the scheme known as "Business Email Compromise". 

The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), one of the foremost organizations pursuing reparational justice, announced its support for the efforts of the Herero tribe in Namibia to secure reparations from the German Government. In 2021, the German government acknowledged that it practiced genocide against the tribe.  The Herero a client of the Firm. 

The Namibian - the largest circulating newspaper in Namibia - published on March 3, 2023, the Firm's guest editorial on the German genocide of the Herero Tribe in Southwest Africa at the turn of the 20th century.

Firm fights in Appellate Court for Public Housing Authority to keep tenants free from crimes.

In a multi-million dollar multi-state fraud and contract dispute over the sale of commercial property in Maryland, the firm’s clients were granted summary judgment on all claims in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. A copy of the letter order can be found at the below link.

In a 339-page report and recommendation, a three-member committee on October 7, 2022, rejected over 60 charges brought against a District of Columbia attorney by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel (“ODC”). The panel found that the attorney and each of her witnesses testified credibly and persuasively and ordered only an informal admonition for several late filings, a single incorrect statement in a filing, and an inadvertent $100 overcharge over the course of a decades of probate practice.

The evidentiary hearing extended over 30 days, with a hearing transcript in excess of 5,400 pages. The committee lauded the attorney for her “exemplary” work, questioned several actions taken by ODC - using words such as “irresponsible”, “abusive”, and “outrageous” to describe ODC’s tactics - and rejected ODC’s challenge to the Firm’s “forceful” defense.