John B. Gately
Attorney & Counselor at Law

Attorneys

History

A former Coast Guard judge advocate, John Gately has successfully represented clients in hundreds of courts-martial, medical boards and administrative proceedings.

Specialties

John Gately focuses his practice on military disability and veterans rights issues, concentrating on representing active duty service members, Reservists and Guardsmen before the Physical Evaluation Boards of the various armed and uniformed services.

This includes representing clients before the various Boards of Correction for Military and Naval Records on both disability and nonmedical issues.

He also represents veterans on levels of claims before the Department of Veterans Affairs nationwide. 

Recognitions

John Brendon Gately has been awarded the coveted AV rating on anonymous peer review by Martindale-Hubbell, signifying that he is considered to be preeminent in his field by other legal professionals nationwide.

He is listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in America alongside other nationally known AV-rated practitioners such as Plato Cacheris, Gerry Treanor and Brendan Sullivan. 

Hobbies

John Gately's hobbies include kayaking, marine archaeology, fossil hunting, gold dredging and sniping, naval history, volunteering with INGOs overseas combatting human trafficking and conflict diamond/gold issues.