Goodman Allen Donnelly recently added veterans benefits litigator Patrick Cazalet as an associate with the firm’s Veterans Benefits Group. 

As a retired United States Air Force explosive ordnance disposal veteran and former Veterans Affairs attorney, Patrick understands firsthand the complexities of navigating access to government disability benefits and is committed to using his experience to help other veterans and their families. Patrick also has over 25 years of prior leadership experience in human resources, emergency operations, and safety management. He obtained a J.D. from University of Baltimore School of Law, an M.B.A. from American Public University System, a B.A. from American Military University, and an A.A.S. from Air University (Community College of the Air Force).

Goodman Allen Donnelly’s veterans benefit group provides competent, knowledgeable, and respectful legal services to veterans and their families. Founded in 1998, the group has collective legal experience of over 80 years and has helped over two thousand veterans and their families fight for the pension, compensation, education and VA benefits they deserve. The firm has offices throughout Virginia and the veterans benefit practice represents veterans in the United States and across the world in their cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and at all levels of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.