Email: jflannery@cmzlaw.com

Leesburg, VA
19 East Market Street
Leesburg, VA-20176
Telephone: (703) 771-8344
Facsimile: (703) 777-1485

John P. Flannery John is listed in "Who's Who in America", and he is a regular guest commentator on tv and radio on law and politics including Fox News, the O'Reilly Factor, and Chris Matthews Hardball.

John is a former federal prosecutor from New York who handled widely publicized federal criminal investigations and prosecutions that ran the gamut from securities fraud to a mob prison break, the bribery of Congressman Dan Flood by a rabbi, the federally funded summer feeding scandal in the South Bronx, and heroin-trafficking by major organized crime figures including "Matty" Madonna.

In private practice at the mid-town Manhattan law firm of Poletti Friedin Prashker Feldman & Gartner (founded by FDR Jr.), John represented all the airlines in the Air Traffic Controllers Strike in 1981, and negotiated a settlement for the Airlines amounting to $28,869,000.00.

While John maintained a general private practice in the mid-80's, he continued to handle complex civil matters as well, representing John Maguire, the founder of a wholly owned hi-tech subsidiary, Software AG, NA, as well as Al Neuharth, the founder of USA Today. John also had a busy criminal docket that included complex multi-defendant, multi-jurisdictional securities fraud prosecutions, the targets of alleged defense industries fraud, and those targeted in political corruption investigations.

John served twice on Capitol Hill. On the Senate side as Special Counsel to the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee (appointed by Chairman Strom Thurmond to investigate Quadaffi's efforts to subvert American foreign policy), and then as Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Labor Committee (appointed by Chairman Orrin Hatch to investigate the confirmation hearings of former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan). On the House side, he served again as Special Counsel, investigating the mob's influence in the Laborers International Union, also their influence on the Teamsters International Union, and he made a nationwide assessment of the "American Worker". His most challenging assignment on the Hill, however, was his work on the historic Impeachment proceedings of President William Jefferson Clinton (for the democratic minority).

John was Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, representing Silicon Valley; he was responsible for forging bi-partisan legislative initiatives, serving as liaison with the minority leader, and lending his expertise in hi-tech policy making and legislation.

After Congress, John returned to practice at Campbell Miller Zimmerman, PC (www.CMZLaw.com) as "Of Counsel". John's litigation practice was both civil and criminal, trial and appellate, federal and state.

John's criminal defense and appellate practice, at the federal and state level, focused on white collar criminal defense including several significant chronic pain cases, most particularly, the Florida State appeal of Richard Paey, a chronic pain patient, unjustly sentenced to 25 years for receiving pain medication, featured on Sixty Minutes; last September 2007, John argued for Richard's release from prison, and Governor Crist granted a full pardon; John also fought successfully to reverse the unfair conviction of Dr. William Nucklos in Ohio; John associated in these efforts with the Pain Relief Network, headed by its founder and President, Siobhan Reynolds; it is because of Richard and other pain cases, that John wrote his book, "Pain in America - and how our Government makes it worse!"

John's civil practice includes complex fraud and contract litigation involving labor (workers), land use, employment, contract, corporate entities (whether it's formation, or dissolution), business hi-tech, IP, Sarbanes Oxley, and a general civil practice, as well as government relations.

Mr. Flannery holds undergraduate degrees in Physics (BS, Fordham) and Industrial Engineering (BS, Columbia), a law degree (J.D., Columbia), and a Masters Degree (Masters in Information Science, GW Graduate Business School).

Mr. Flannery is married to Holly Lynne Flannery, formerly Holly Lynne Smith, his daughter is Diana (after the huntress of legend), and Holly's daughter is Alexandra.

You can write John at JonFlan@aol.com or visit his web-site at http://www.johnpflannery.com/.

Areas of Practice:

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Appellate Practice

Bankruptcy Law

Business & Commercial Law

Business Organizations

Construction Law

Consumer Protection

Contracts

Criminal Law

Debtor/Creditor

DUI/DWI

Employment Law -- Employee

Government Contracts

Intellectual Property Law

Internet -- Cyberspace

Labor Law

Land Use & Zoning

Legal Malpractice

Litigation & Appeals

Personal Injury -- Plaintiff

Products Liability Law

Real Estate Law

State, Local & Municipal Law

Trusts

White Collar Crimes

Bar Admissions:

Virginia, 1983

District of Columbia, 1985

New York, 1973

U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia, 1984

U.S. District Court Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia

U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York, 1973

U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1973

U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2007

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1985

U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 2006

U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2007

U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 2007

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Supreme Court, 1985

U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 2008

Education:

George Washington University, 2002
Masters in Information Science

Columbia Law School, New York, New York, 1972
J.D.

Fordham University, New York, New York, 1969
B.S.
Major:  Physics

Columbia University, New York, New York, 1969
B.S.
Major:  Industrial Engineering