Montalvo is Founding Partner of The Federal Practice Group. His areas of practice are military law, security clearance law, international corporate law, and white collar crime.
Guantanamo hitch On July 22, 2009,
US District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle granted Jawad's
habeas corpus petition, ruling that all the evidence against him was inadmissible, because it was triggered by torture. Page reported that Montalvo was scheduled to retire from the Marine Corps within the next month. On September 21, 2009,
historian Andy Worthington, author of
The Guantanamo Files, published a letter from Montalvo's colleague Frakt, that explained Montalvo's role in more detail. He wrote that, initially, Jawad's Defense team was going to hire a
private investigator to travel to Afghanistan to conduct their own investigation, because so much of the evidence in the case had disappeared. It was only when
Susan Crawford declined to budget for a private investigator that Montalvo made plans to serve as the team's investigator.
Defense of Adam Winfield Adam Winfield is a soldier who faces charges that he participated in a thrill kill murder ring in Afghanistan. Montalvo is serving as his attorney. Montalvo and Winfield's father have asserted that Winfield was not a willing participant in the conspiracy, that he was one of the whistleblowers who had tried to report the ring. A documentary was produced detailing Winfield's story, and is called
The Kill Team. The film won first place in the category of Best Documentary Feature at the 2013
Tribeca Film Festival.
Afghanistan evacuation Montalvo and his Federal Practice Group were involved in the
2021 evacuation from Afghanistan, chartering a plane from
Mazar-i-Sharif to
Doha. The flight was called "rogue", containing "300 people of unknown nationalities" as it wasn't expected or documented. It didn't have landing rights for Doha, but was able to land. ==References==