Richard G. Moore is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Northern Virginia office. He practices in the areas of civil litigation and appellate representation. He has participated in a wide variety of commercial and other civil litigation matters in both state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels, and in arbitration proceedings. In a 1989 decision of the D.C. Circuit Court, his representation assisted in the establishment of government liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act for care-giver assault on dependent patients in military hospitals, despite the intentional tort exception to the Act's waiver of sovereign immunity [Bembenista v. United States, 866 F.2d 493 (D.C. Cir. 1989). At the time of his retirement from the U. S. Marine Corps in 1981, as a Brigadier General, Mr. Moore was the Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy (Military Law).