Darrell Clayton Baughn

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Jackson, MS 39206 US

Cell Phone: 601-***-****

Home Phone 601-***-****

Email: adlcnj@r.postjobfree.com

Availability: Job Type: Permanent

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Part-Time, Intermittent, Job Sharing, Multiple Schedules

Desired locations: United States - MS – Jackson

Work Experience:

Administrative Office of the Courts

450 High St, Jackson, MS 39201

9/21/2020 to 12/31/2020

Staff Attorney; $43.00 an hour; 20 Hours per week

Duties:

Assisted Senior Status Judge Betty Sanders with managing and reviewing 120

Pending Post-Conviction Relief Cases. This position involved advising the Court

On the facts and law, drafting orders, and extensive research into the current posture of the case. This temporary position was funded with COVID-19 grant money.

Mississippi Office of the Attorney General

Assigned to the Mississippi Department of Corrections

401 North Lamar Street

Jackson, MS 39201

03/2016 – 9/18/2020

Special Assistant Attorney General Salary: 86,000 Per Year Hours per week: 40

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Defended the State of Mississippi from inmate lawsuits dealing with judicial review motions of administrative decisions, post conviction relief motions, motions for parole, civil rights actions, and other miscellaneous motions. Also, handled cases on appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court which involved extensive research and brief writing. Provided legal advice in relation to public records requests, contracts, and other legal issues. Counselled District Attorneys across the state on parole and prison procedure in relation to sentencing.

Supervisor: Tommy Goodwin 601-***-**** Okay to contact: Yes

United States Department of the Army,

154th Legal Operations Detachment (LOD), Trial Defense Service (TDS)

6901 TELEGRAPH ROAD

Alexandria, VA 22310 United States

07/2012 - 06/2015 Salary: 90,000.00 USD Per Year Hours per week: 70

Legal Liaison Officer

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

1. Legal Liaison Officer: Served as the liaison with the Legal Command and Separation Authorities to facilitate TDS issues like the use of forensic toxicologists during boards during the weekend or paying travel for TDS attorneys or other legal procedure issues in connection with various boards. This role required travelling to Separation Authorities to resolve disputed issues such as the various procedures and practices used at separation boards. This position also worked closely with the active duty TDS office to ensure training information like that provided at the Sexual Assault Leadership Training course is received and distributed to TDS personnel and worked closely with the recruiting office to make sure key vacancies are filled by qualified TDS personnel.

2. Trial Defense Service Counsel: Assisted clients with obtaining TDS counsel and assisted clients with immediate legal concerns. This assistance took the form of negotiating for a continuance or answering legal questions about how the process works and providing other legal answers to immediate concerns from the client. On occasion, the legal liaison officer took cases and represented clients, especially ones in the Washington DC area. For example, during the government shut-down when the 154th LOD had to close October 2013, the legal liaison officer was the only attorney that was actively and zealously representing TDS clients. This position also dealt with high-profile cases in the Washington DC area which require immediate, active duty TDS support.

3. Judge Advocate: Assisted TDS attorneys assigned to the 154th LOD with understanding new regulations and policies that impact how they represent clients. As a judge advocate located at the 154th LOD HQ, this position assisted TDS attorneys with legal research and with problem cases to ensure the client is represented to the best extent possible.

4. Training Counsel: The legal liaison officer was also responsible for serving as a train the trainer and a trainer for new judge advocates to ensure they provide the highest quality representation to clients facing article 15s, court martials, separation boards, or other types of military justice situations. In this regard, the legal liaison officer prepared on-sites and summits to provide our judge advocates with the most up-to-date legal training in TDS matters. This legal training also extended to providing basic legal training to paralegals to assist them with advancement as a TDS paralegal.

5. Administrative Law Counsel: The Legal Liaison Officer served as an administrative law counsel and often wrote legal opinions for the 91 paralegals and TDS attorneys in this command who needed assistance in various matters. This role often extended to matters such as medical line of duty investigations and property accountability investigations which required legal reviews.

6. Fiscal Law Attorney: The legal liaison officer also assisted the Command with fiscal law opinions and expertise when relevant. For example, new guidance issued on conferences allows the fiscal law attorney assigned to a Commander the authority to opine as to whether an event is a conference using the indicial of what constitutes a conference.

Supervisor: COL Michelle E. Crawford 843-***-**** Okay to contact: Yes

United States Army, 412th Theater Engineer Command

1265 PORTERS CHAPEL ROAD

Vicksburg, MS 39180-5790 United States

04/2007 - 07/2012 Salary: 90,000.00 USD Per Year Hours per week: 80

Deputy Staff Judge Advocate

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

1. Military Justice: Handled court martials for the Command which involved preparing the case, handling Article 42 hearings, preparing complicated pretrial motions and briefs, handling the trial, negotiating with defense counsel, and handling the sentencing phase of the case. Also handled Article 15s, reduction boards, and administrative separation boards for the Command. Over the years, received several month’s of detailed military justice training at the Army JAG school and other locations.

2. Labor Law: Dealt with civilian labor law issues for the Command that most often death with disciplinary issues. Also dealt with EEO matters, disability issues, or labor union matters. Attended a three week labor law courses in my time in the JAG corps.

3. Ethics: Taught ethics to Soldiers and to Commanders annually and to mobilizing Soldiers. Researched and wrote legal opinions on Joint Ethics Regulation (JER) issues such as gifts, the use of government equipment for personal purposes and leaving the government and taking a job in the private sector and things of that nature. Assisted the Commander in completing the ethics disclosure report annually. Took three weeks of ethics courses in my time in the JAG corps.

4. Administrative Law: Researched and handled Army and DoD specific administrative regulations and law in such areas as property accountability, medical injuries, evaluations, taking leave, inspector general complaints, whistle-blower violations, investigations, flags, equal opportunity violations, and many others. Took three weeks of instructions in this area of the law at the Army JAG school and various on-sites.

5. Tax Law: Handled individual taxes for Soldiers under the IRS VITA program for five years and took a week long tax refresher class at the Army JAG school annually for five years. Assisted underprivileged in the community with their taxes during this time.

6. Contracts and Fiscal Law: Gained a thorough knowledge of the Federal Acquisitions Regulation (FAR) and sat on several boards that deal with acquisitions and contracts. Dealt with many contractors and contracting officer representatives to handle their legal issues. Attended three contract and fiscal law three day on-sites, a two week contract law course at the JAG school, a week long advanced contract law course, a week long fiscal law course, and a week-long contract and fiscal law course in the basic course.

7. Legal Assistance: Handled wills and powers of attorney for deploying Soldiers for my unit and other legal assistance issues that arose. Many of the issues involved child support or family law or landlord/tenant issues or issues under the Service Member's Civil Relief Act or the Uniform Employment and Re-employment Rights Act.

Supervisor: John Breland 601-***-**** Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

United States Army, United States Forces Afghanistan

New Kabul Compound, Kabul, Afghanistan

08/2009 - 08/2010 Salary: 80,000.00 USD Per Year Hours per week: 90

Contract Law/Fiscal Law Attorney

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

1. Contract Law: Served as a contract law attorney in reviewing contracts that were a part of fiscal law packets. These contracts were often part of huge construction projects or Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) projects or acquisitions and sometimes went to certain issues such as purpose time and amount and bona fide need and whether there was an anti-deficiency act violation. Also reviewed contracts under renewal under the Federal Acquisition Regulation to ensure the contract had years remaining and money remaining and they were not trying to use one year money for multiple years. Received four weeks of training in this category.

2. Fiscal Law: Reviewed fiscal law packets in the area of construction and Acquisition and emergency response and other areas for legal sufficiency during the surge which required literally reviewing hundreds of packets per week. Assisted Commanders and other attorneys across Afghanistan with their fiscal law packets. Received three weeks of training in this category.

3. Intelligence Law: Examined intelligence law packets for legal sufficiency which required having a top secret clearance and reviewing complicated rules on what was authorized by both Federal and Afghanistan law where appropriate.

4. Administrative Law: Assisted with several high-profile investigations. Served as the legal officer assigned to some high-profile investigations in which required legal research and legal advice to the flag officer and the AR 15-6 investigative team as they looked into whatever the particular incident happened to be at the time. These investigations often required travel into some dangerous areas.

5. Claims: Assisted with paying and researching claims to local nations for injuries and property damages according to federal law and Army regulation.

Supervisor: COL Kevin K. Robitaille 334-***-****) adlcnj@r.postjobfree.com

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

United States Army, Personnel Plans and Training Office (PP&TO)

2200 Army Pentagon Room 2B517

Washington, DC 20310-2200 United States

01/2006 - 04/2007 Salary: 80,000.00 USD Per Year Hours per week: 70

Legal Policy Developer

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

1. Legal Policy Developer for the USAR JAGC: Assisted Judge Advocates with their careers and understanding how to develop their legal training to get promoted. Developed legal policy in various critical areas dealing with the USAR JAGC. Researched federal statutes and opined on personnel issues, labor law issues, ethical issues, and military justice issues.

2. Trainer: Attended on-sites and trained judge advocates on their responsibilities as young and older judge advocates to train in certain legal areas and gave legal advice on which legal areas were better than others to focus on for career progression. Assisted lawyers and paralegals with understanding their roles as mentors and advisors.

Supervisor: COL Marilyn Chiafullo 703-***-****) Okay to contact Supervisor: Yes

United States Army, 1st COSCOM

Anaconda, Balad

Balad, Iraq

12/2005 - 01/2006 Salary: 70,000.00 USD Per Year Hours per week: 90

Chief of Legal Assistance/Chief of Claims

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

1. Chief of Legal Assistance/Claims: For a year in this combat environment in which Balad received over 250 mortar and rocket attacks, assisted thousands of Soldiers and airmen and marines with their legal assistance issues so they could focus on the war effort. These matters mainly involved family law which required research into local state laws to see if divorces or marriages were possible from the combat zone, and if they could be done pro se and what forms could be used and what laws applied. Also researched landlord/tenant laws, did taxes, handled employed and re-employment issues, wills, powers of attorneys and many other legal assistance issues.

2. Immigration Law: Assisted many Soldiers become US citizens while in Iraq. Helped Soldiers become citizens in as few as 30 days instead of the five years it takes most people. Researched various legal aspects of Immigration law and assigned Soldiers with studying for the tests and with the ceremony.

3. Claims: Served as a personnel, military, and foreign claims officer. The personnel claims paid claims to Soldiers for damaged goods, the military to contractors and the foreign to local natives. Reviewed the packets for legal sufficiency and research the law and often have to travel to the location and talk to the locals in dangerous locations to gather facts and then adjudicate the claim and finally pay out in cash the claim to keep good will with the local nationals.

Supervisor: LTC(R) Lance Casey adlcnj@r.postjobfree.com Okay to contact: Yes

United States Department of the Army, 213th Legal Operations Detachment

1650 Corey Boulevard (Jackson MS Team location) Decatur, GA 30032 United States

04/2003 - 10/2005 Salary: 70,000.00 USD Per Year Hours per week: 16

Trial Counsel

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Trial Counsel: Prosecuted Cases in separation boards and assisted with advising Army commanders with various military justices issues and other administrative law issues such as Article 15s, reductions boards, reprimands, counseling statements, property accountability issues, and other forms of discipline.

Mississippi Department of Human Services

750 North State Street Jackson, MS 39202 United States

06/1998 - 12/2005 Salary: 50,000.00 USD Per Year Hours per week: 40

Senior Attorney

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Senior Attorney: Served as Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in prosecuting deadbeat parents; cases for possible appeal; researched legal issues; drafted legislation and served as the lobbyist with the legislature for the Department, trained staff in legal operations, responded to Senate and House inquiries; drafted and programmed legal forms, MOU’s, and RFP’s; specialized in grant writing, handled International Law issues; wrote speeches for administrative and legislative officials; organized and spoke at CLE conventions; coordinated with Federal Government programs to facilitate the

implementation of federal regulations; taught computer training classes; worked closely with other state agencies; drafted legal policy on administrative procedures, facilitated criminal prosecutions through a task force with various District Attorney’s office and U.S. Attorney’s offices, served as liaison with the Attorney General’s office to resolve problem cases and issues, and supervised other attorneys in the capacity of Interim Senior Attorney in the Delta twice and in Hinds and on the Coast and served as Interim General Counsel for over four years and functioned as a Special Assistant Attorney General in handling cases against the Department.

Education: University of Alabama School of Law Tuscaloosa, AL United States

Doctorate 05/1997

GPA: 3.3 of a maximum 4.0

Major: Juris Doctorate

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

Top 30%

CALLI award for Outstanding Excellence in Future Interests

Chosen for Worker's Compensation Work Group

Presented a Paper to the Alabama Insurance Commission

University of Alabama Graduate School Tuscaloosa, AL United States

Some College Coursework Completed 06/1994

GPA: 3.9 of a maximum 4.0

Major: English

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

Completed all the course work and passed the language requirement and the orals and everything except my dissertation toward my PHD in English. I was in the program from 1990 to 1994 because I also served as a teaching assistant and the English Department encouraged a lower class load to use students as teachers.

University of Alabama Graduate School Tuscaloosa, AL United States

Master's Degree 06/1988

GPA: 3.9 of a maximum 4.0 Major: English

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

Strode Fellowship in Research

Outstanding Teaching Award in 1988

Belhaven University Jackson, MS United States

Bachelor's Degree 06/1986 GPA: 4.0 of a maximum 4.0

Major: English Minor: Speech Honors: Summa Cum Laude

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

Speech Scholarship

Highest ranked graduate in English studies

Member of Belhaven Culture and Humanities Program

Studied Abroad in Ireland and England

Hinds Community College, Raymond, MS United States

Associate in Arts Degree 05/1983

GPA: 3.9 of a maximum 4.0 Major: English Minor: Speech

References:

Special Assistant Attorney General Dan Smith, 601-***-****; adlcnj@r.postjobfree.com

Steve Pickett, Chairman, Mississippi Parole Board, adlcnj@r.postjobfree.com;

601-***-****

Senior Circuit Court Judge 15th District, Honorable Prentiss Harrell, adlcnj@r.postjobfree.com; 601-***-****

LTC Steve Meints 407-***-**** adlcnj@r.postjobfree.com

LCR(R) Lance Casey adlcnj@r.postjobfree.com

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