Garrett Condon
President & Founding Member


Garrett Condon was born and raised on Long Island, New York. He graduated from the University of Richmond, Virginia, with a B.A. and then received his J.D from Hofstra University School of Law in New York where he served on the Hofstra Law Review.
 
While awaiting bar exam results the summer after graduating law school, the tragedy of September 11th occurred. Shortly thereafter, Garrett committed to entering the Air Force as an active duty officer. Over the next 12 years, he served as an active duty Judge Advocate in various roles while stationed in Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland, and Virginia. During this time, Garrett was counsel in over 50 courts-martial, including 25 fully litigated jury trials. He often led large litigation teams of multiple attorneys, paralegals and experts. The Air Force utilized Garrett in several other practice areas, including extensive civil litigation. At his final active duty assignment, he was stationed in the Pentagon where he advised senior Air Force officials on a wide variety of issues and prepared reports of investigation that the Air Force delivered to the President of the United States. Garrett was consistently ranked highest among peers on officer performance reports. He remains in the Air Force Reserves and is now a Lieutenant Colonel. 

As a military defense counsel, Garrett served the needs of all clients in need of help, from E-1 to O-7, with many notable cases.  He often led large litigation teams of multiple attorneys, paralegals and experts.  The Air Force utilized Garrett in several other practice areas, including extensive civil litigation, military administrative actions, medical malpractice defense, medical law, administrative law, labor and employment law, and ethics.  
 
After leaving active duty, Garrett and his family settled near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He spent a semester at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center and was admitted to the Louisiana Bar. While at LSU, he was recruited and hired as the Managing Attorney for Louisiana Foreclosure at a multi-state law firm. In that position, he was the senior Louisiana attorney for all legal issues, personally represented clients on complex and contested cases, and managed the team responsible for a pipeline of thousands of foreclosure lawsuits and related matters in every parish of the state. He represented a multitude of clients, from the massive national and international banking giants to local and regional small businesses.
 
In 2015, Garrett Condon established Condon, Wood & Burkhart with his law partners Ray Wood and Diane Burkhart, and there he has served as President since the firm’s inception. In that capacity, Garrett acts as the as the chief executive officer of the firm overseeing all aspects of the firm, as well as the senior attorney supervising all staff and personally working on all complex cases.
 
Garrett has been practicing law since 2002 and has been licensed in Louisiana since 2014. He has over 18 years of litigation experience, including six years specializing in foreclosure and real estate. 

Bar & Court Admissions

• Louisiana
• New Jersey
• New York
• United States Supreme Court
• Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
• Accredited to practice before the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Education

• University of Richmond, B.A.
• Hofstra University School of Law, J.D.
      Graduated in Top 11%; Law Review

Active Duty Military Resume Highlights

• Ranked by the Air Force General Counsel as his #1 major and ranked by Senior Executive Service supervisor as “the #1 military attorney I have worked with in 22 years of Government service.”
• Ranked as the #1 of 18 senior defense counsel in the Air Force by his senior supervising Colonel and ranked in top 1% of majors ever managed by the Air Force Judiciary Director.
• Ranked as the #2 of 83 area defense counsel in the Air Force by his senior supervising Colonel.
• Ranked as the #1 of 8 Captains in the legal office and #6 of 230 captains at Barksdale Air Force Base by the Wing Commander.
• Ranked as the #1 first-assignment JAG by the Lieutenant General United States Air Force Academy Superintendent.