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Stephen Merrill is a well-known trial attorney with a strong background in the fundamentals.   In the midst of a successful career in Norfolk, Virginia, Stephen relocated to Anchorage, Alaska in 2009 seeking new professional and personal challenges.

After graduating from the University of Nebraska Law School, Stephen accepted a Navy officer's commission in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. During four years of Navy active-duty, Lieutenant Merrill tried over 300 court-martials and accompanied aircraft carriers on foreign cruises.
   He was also honored with appointments as a military magistrate and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. After entering private practice, Mr. Merrill drilled as a weekend Reserve Intelligence Officer at CINCLANTFLT. His duties included the Indications and Warning Watch, briefing the Admiral as well as highly classified studies of Soviet sea and air forces.  Military Experience

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Tidewater Libertarian Party

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Mr. Merrill is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and numerous other courts: among the most court admissions of anyone practicing law in Hampton Roads or Anchorage.
  Court Admissions   Through his career Mr. Merrill has never been charged with a rule violation based on a client's client complaint to the state bar: something unusual in a law practice attracting the general public.

Mr. Merrill’s law firm in Virginia concentrated in business law and in personal injury/insurance litigation. Mr. Merrill has been lead counsel in jury trials in almost every Virginia courthouse east of Richmond with excellent results. He often succeeds in cases other lawyers turn down. Accidents/Injuries  Numerous businesses have relied on his guidance and integrity in forming their business structure and in making those businesses grow.
 Corporate Law  Now, in Anchorage, Mr. Merrill will expand his practice to include a concentration in investigating and bringing meritorious cases under the Federal False Claims Act.

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First Inaugural Address
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Not Yours to Give

Life's Rules

HUMOR

Greatest Cross-Examination Answer

Making a Point

Attorney Merrill is one of the few lawyers who accepts meritorious civil liberties cases and one of the fewer who has a record of success in cases against the government. Mr. Merrill has often been interviewed by local Virginia news channels on civil liberties issues.
Civil Liberties The media often publish columns on politics and public affairs written by Mr. Merrill.
  A number of years ago Stephen served as the the statewide Membership Chairman for the Virginia Reform Party. Presently, he is active with the Alaska Libertarian Party, the Anchorage Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, all within the movement for greater economic and personal freedom throughout our country. 

Mr. Merrill submitted a "friend-of-the-court" brief to the United States Supreme Court in the monumental property rights case, Kelo v. City of New London.   At a citywide conference on redevelopment held by the City of Virginia Beach, Mr. Merrill participated on the panel of experts making the case for free markets and choice in education as the best future for the city. 

The reputation earned is one of a creative, highly determined litigator willing to take on powerful interests.  His clients simply never leave him and happily recommend him to friends and acquaintances.  It is little wonder Mr. Merrill is known by many as the “famous maverick lawyer”.

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