Firm Highlights

We are AV* rated, which means we are considered by the legal community to have “very high to preeminent legal ability;” “expertise, experience, integrity and overall professional excellence,” as well as “the highest professional and ethical standards.” There is no higher rating for attorneys. 

• Mr. Mahoney was recently elected to membership in the Cosmos Club as someone who is considered distinguished in the learned profession of the law and public service. Among the Cosmos Clubs members, over the years, have been three Presidents, two Vice Presidents, a dozen Supreme Court justices, 32 Nobel Prize winners, 56 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 45 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
  
  
• EEOC ISSUES RARE DEFAULT JUDGMENT AGAINST THE USDA AS A SANCTION FOR THEIR MISCONDUCT. Mahoney & Mahoney, LLP recently won relief for a Federal Employee in a novel Race & National Origin Discrimination by Association and "Regarded as" Disability Discrimination case.  See Steven A. Johnson v. Mike Johanns, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, EEOC CASE No. 520-2006-00120X, Agency No. FSA 2005-00711 (EEOC New York District Office, Boston Area Office, Sanctions Order Issued Jan. 22, 2007) (Press Release).
  
  
• Mr. Mahoney recently represented a manager at the Federal Election Commission in successfully settling her claims of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and retaliation against that agency.  See The Washington Post, Mar. 8, 2006, The Federal Page;
  
  
• Mr. Mahoney recently settled a disabled cancer survivor's claim of disability discrimination and retaliation in federal employment against the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute.  See the Gazette Newspaper June 3, 2005;
  
  
• Mr. Mahoney won a finding of discrimination and an award of full relief, with retroactive promotion to the SES level, backpay, compensatory damages, and attorneys fees in excess of $100,000, in a federal employee sex discrimination case before the EEOC, see Farrell v. Snow, Secretary, Department of the Treasury, EEOC Appeal No. 07A20043 (May 5, 2003);
  
  
• Mr. Mahoney won a finding of discrimination and an award of full relief, with backpay and compensatory damages in excess of $100,000, in a Wage Grade-level federal employee race and perceived disability discrimination case before the EEOC, see Flythe v. Caldera, Secretary, Department of the Army, EEOC Appeal No. 01972258 (2000);
  
  
• Mr. Mahoney has successfully argued an appeal of first impression before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, resulting in the creation of new due process rights for a class of disabled Federal employees and the reversal of several MSPB decisions and an OPM regulation, see VanWersch v. Department of Health and Human Servs., 197 F.3d 1144 (Fed. Cir. 1999);
  
  
• John Mahoney co-authored a petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States as an attorney of record in a case, which, with the assistance of AFGE, helped lead to legislation treating the Smithsonian Institution as an agency under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, see Dong v. Smithsonian Institution, 125 F.3d 877 (D.C. Cir. 1997), reh'g denied, No. 96-503 (1997), cert. denied, 524 U.S. 922 (1998);
  
  
• Mr. Mahoney successfully tried, as an attorney of record, a case of first impression before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, see Dong v. Smithsonian Institution, 943 F. Supp. 69 (1996)(first case awarding compensatory damages under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a);
  
  
• Mr. Mahoney successfully prosecuted and argued a motion for summary judgment in a multi-million dollar class action against the U.S. and D.C. Governments in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of retired U.S. Park Police officers, which case was covered in the press, see Wheeler v. District of Columbia (D.D.C. 1995)(unpublished);
  
  
• John Mahoney has drafted a petition for rehearing in banc to the D.C. Circuit, briefs, and had oral arguments in the Federal Circuit, as the attorney of record, see, e.g., Byrd & Rubinstein v. Merit Sys. Protection Bd., 39 F.3d 1196 (Fed. Cir. 1994)(Br. For Pet. Byrd); Begley v. Office of Personnel Management, 60 F.3d 804 (Fed. Cir. 1995).
  
  

Mahoney & Mahoney serves clients wherever the federal government has employees, including civilian, military, and diplomatic installations across the United States and worldwide in places such as Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and the entire European Union.