Jonathan Crisp is an experienced trial attorney who has litigated more than 40 cases to verdict and alternatively resolved numerous others. Mr. Crisp represents clients with government contract disputes, Veteran’s Appeals claims and military and civilian clients facing criminal charges. Mr. Crisp’s experience and reputation as a trial attorney resulted in his selection by clients whose cases had national and even international exposure. He has represented clients all over the United States and around the world, to include Kosovo and Iraq. Mr. Crisp has obtained the dismissal of charges and also obtained acquittals at the trial and post-trial stage. He has negotiated numerous high-value contracts for goods and services and successfully assisted clients in avoiding costly contract disputes.
Mr. Crisp began his legal career as an Assistant Public Defender in Centre County, Pennsylvania. He left the Centre County Public Defender’s Office to join the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. In the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, he first served as a Legal Assistance Attorney and then the Chief of Legal Assistance at Patton Barracks in Heidelberg, Germany. As a Legal Assistance Attorney, he worked as a general practitioner in areas such as: contracts, estate planning and mediation services. During his tenure as the Chief of Legal Assistance, the Patton Barracks Legal Assistance Office was awarded the Army Chief of Staff Award for Excellence in Legal Assistance for the first time in its thirty year history.
Mr.
Crisp then served as a Defense Counsel in Ansbach, Germany, where he
represented Soldiers at administrative proceedings and courts-martial. He was
subsequently selected to be the Senior Defense Counsel in Fort Jackson, South
Carolina, where he continued to represent Soldiers, but also supervised and
mentored other trial attorneys. As a defense Counsel and also as a Senior
Defense Counsel, Jonathan Crisp was specifically requested by accused to
represent them. Two of the more high-profile cases in which Mr. Crisp was
requested by name included a case involving charges of abuse against detainees
at Abu Ghraib and a case involving the death of a detainee during an
interrogation.