Military Experts, LLC is a consulting firm that advises attorneys nationwide on military issues including accession, promotion, retention, and compensation (active, reserve, and retired pay and benefits). Founded in 2011, Military Experts, LLC employs a diverse team of recognized military leaders from each branch of the military who have served at the highest levels of their military services and understand the military issues and service-specific nuances involved in each case.
Military Experts, LLC helps attorneys understand, quantify, and explain the impact an injury has had on a service member’s career. Their experts employ a reliable, fact-based methodology and independent judgment honed over decades of military experience to advise attorneys representing plaintiffs or defendants in civil litigation across the country.
Military Experts, LLC advise their attorney clients as either consulting or testifying experts. They have the knowledge and experience to properly advise attorney clients on the impact an individual’s military service has on their case – and the credibility to explain those impacts to a finder of fact. Each case is different, but the process and methodology are the same:
- Determine whether a service member's injury caused any damage to his/her career:
- Assess whether a service member has lost military earnings or benefits and, if so,:
- Quantify the loss stemming from that damage (pay, benefits, retirement, medical coverage - inflation-adjusted)
Hon. Dennis M. McCarthy, LtGen, USMC (Ret) is a Principal in Military Experts, LLC. He began his Marine Corps service as a platoon leader in Vietnam, and completed it as Commander of Marine Forces Reserve, having led that force for four years during the Corps’ largest reserve mobilization in history. He retired in 2005 as the Marine Corps' senior Lieutenant General with over 40 years of active and reserve service.
After completing his service in uniform, he was Executive Director of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States, a 60,000 member professional association in Washington, D.C. In 2009, he was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense. As Assistant Secretary of Defense, he was responsible for policy development and execution for over one million members of the National Guard and Reserves of all services. He was also responsible for the activities of the National Committee for Employer Support of Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense entity tasked with establishing and maintaining positive relationships with the nation’s large and small employers whose support is so essential to members of the Guard and Reserve.
In 2013-2014, Dennis was appointed by the President to the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force, where he served as its Chair. From 1978 to 1999 while serving in the Marine Corps Reserve, Dennis was a civil trial lawyer in Columbus, Ohio and was managing partner of his own firm. He was Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy; an Adjunct Faculty member at Capital University Law School; a leader in state and national legal organizations; and a frequent CLE lecturer and contributor.
Dennis is currently of counsel to McCarthy Law Offices, LLC in Columbus, Ohio. Dennis graduated from the University of Dayton and the Capital University Law School. In 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Capital University Law School, and was named the Distinguished Alumnus for 2011.
Michael D. McCarthy, is a Principal in Military Experts, LLC. Mike is an expert on matters relating to military compensation and the disability evaluation system. Mike is a career Marine Corps officer with over 20 years of active and reserve service. He has served in both command and staff assignments in the United States and abroad, including a tour as the Military Legislative Assistant to the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Mike has served as a member of multiple Marine Corps promotion boards, as well as the Secretary of the Navy’s Marine Corps Reserve Policy Board. He is a graduate of the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, the Marine Corps’ Command and Staff College, and the Amphibious Warfare School.
Mike’s military training and experiences, as well as his experience as an attorney in private practice, give him unique insight and a superior ability not only to assess the ground-truth of a situation and to provide sound counsel to his clients, but also the credibility to effectively testify to his findings. Mike is admitted to practice law in Ohio and the District of Columbia.
Frank Carr has extensive background and experience as an Investment Industry Employment and Compensation Expert Witness, especially Investment Management Firms, Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, Wealth Managers, and Broker-Dealers. Mr. Carr is a former corporate banker, investment firm Chief Financial Officer and a 20 year veteran of executive search for the Investment Management industry. He has written articles for and has been frequently quoted by publications such as Bloomberg News, CNN Money, Fund Fire, Ignites, Absolute Return, Hedge Fund Alert, and Hedge Fund Manager Week. Prior to entering the executive search field, he was the Chief Financial Officer of a Connecticut-based hedge fund and Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). Mr. Carr started his career in commercial bank lending, initially with Citigroup in their Wall Street Commodities division and later specialized in financing independent feature film producers, TV producers, and television station owners on behalf of European American Bank in New York. 
