Security Clearances: Completing the Standard Form 86

Christopher Nuneviller
Christopher Nuneviller | MNB Meridian Law

Founding partner of MNB Meridian Law, Ltd. and the managing partner for the firm’s Philadelphia office. Christopher focuses his practice on small and mid sized business owners, investors and shareholders, and their success through smart formation, organization, governance, routine and special operations, and growth toward IPO.

On-Demand: October 10, 2025

2 hour CLE

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Program Summary

Military personnel, and increasingly government employees, must maintain security clearance, requiring a minimum 7-year review of the applicant’s background. Standard Form 86 facilitates that review. Given the sensitivity of holding a clearance and the publicity that results from individuals whose backgrounds were not “sufficiently” examined, completely, correctly, and accurately completing the form, is a stressful endeavor. It is made more so if an investigator questions the responses.

This course is designed to familiarize applicants and their advisors with the SF 86, and provide advice beyond “disclose, disclose, disclose,” such insights into what the government is looking to understand, and how to disclose potentially adverse information.

MNB Meridian Law is a government practices advisory firm specializing in the vagaries and arcane of aspects of military service. Our attorneys have held positions across the Department of Defense from the “E Ring” to the foxholes and are considered the nation’s foremost military administrative law experts.

Key topics to be discussed:

  • Defining the security clearance
  • The security clearance process
  • The SF86, questions, and strategies for answering honestly and appropriately

This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.

Closed-captioning available

Speakers

Christopher Nuneviller | MNB Meridian Law

Founding partner of MNB Meridian Law, Ltd. and the managing partner for the firm’s Philadelphia office. Christopher focuses his practice on small and mid sized business owners, investors and shareholders, and their success through smart formation, organization, governance, routine and special operations, and growth toward IPO. As a small business owner in several ventures himself, Christopher understands the pressure to succeed and be profitable, while staying level headed for his clients, employees, family, and business partners.

As a Veteran, Christopher also assists currently serving members of the Uniformed Services as they challenge the adverse administrative punishments military commanders use to “save” their commands and their careers, such as: administrative, criminal, and inspector general investigations, bad evaluations, positive urinalysis, non-judicial punishment, removal of special designations and positions, reprimands, removal from positions, loss of security clearances, titling, and administrative separation boards.

Christopher’s background includes practicing securities, venture capital, emerging business, military, and government regulatory law. He served as inhouse and general counsel, a contractor to the federal government, a federal government senior level executive, and a C-Suite executive. He is also a former U.S. Army Judge Advocate, having served seven years in Washington, D.C., where he gained significant experience with above-the fold matters of great import and an unhealthy insight into the internal workings of the beltway underbelly.

Agenda

I. Defining the security clearance | 1:00pm – 1:30pm

II. The security clearance process | 1:30pm – 2:00pm

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

III. The SF86, questions, and strategies for answering honestly and appropriately | 2:10pm – 3:10pm

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