The practice devoted entirely to federal judicial financial disclosure.
FDR, PLLC prepares and files the mandatory disclosure reports required of federal judges — and nothing else. For a clientele that values precision and discretion above all, that singular focus is the difference.
What we do
The full disclosure obligation, handled.
We manage every filing required under the Ethics in Government Act and the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act — from source documents through final submission — so the obligation stays off your desk.
Annual reports
Complete preparation, review, and filing of the yearly report across every schedule — positions, agreements, income, assets, transactions, liabilities, gifts, and reimbursements.
Periodic transaction reports
Timely periodic transaction filings within the statutory window, so reportable transactions are captured and filed on schedule — not discovered at year-end.
Initial & new-entrant filings
First-year reports for newly appointed or newly covered filers, including assembly of the required historical detail.
Amendments & remediation
Correction of prior reports and orderly handling of late or missed filings, managed to minimize exposure.
Statement management
We obtain your brokerage and account statements directly. No gathering of documents, cycle after cycle, on your end.
Filing & oversight
Preparation and submission through the Judiciary's electronic filing systems — delivered to you for review and authorization before anything is filed.
For existing clients
Privileged holdings review
For clients who already use us for disclosure reporting, we can perform a privileged audit of current holdings and produce detailed macro- and micro-level reports based on your specific needs — portfolio-wide summaries, account-by-account analysis, or anything in between. This is available only to existing reporting clients as part of an active engagement; it is not offered on a standalone basis.
Our process
You authorize. We do the rest.
A defined path, the same for every client, with the complexity absorbed on our side.
Onboarding
You add FDR as your designee and we open a secure portal. A short intake captures only what you alone can provide.
We gather
We retrieve your account statements directly from your institutions — the heaviest lift, carried by us.
We prepare
Every holding and transaction is identified, valued, and classified to the standards the reviewing Committee expects.
Independent review
A second reviewer checks the report before it ever reaches you. Preparer and reviewer are never the same.
You authorize
You review the finished report and approve it. Nothing is submitted without your sign-off.
File & monitor
We file through the Judiciary's systems and track your ongoing transaction-reporting deadlines through the year.
The work is ours; the report is yours. You stay fully informed and in control of everything filed in your name.
Security & confidentiality
Built for sensitive information.
You are entrusting us with a complete picture of your finances. The way we handle it reflects that.
Held in confidence
Every engagement is conducted under attorney professional obligations. Your information is held in strict confidence and is never shared with anyone outside the engagement.
Secure exchange
We provide secure, access-controlled means for transmitting documents. And because we obtain most statements directly, the documents that change hands — and the exposure that comes with them — stay to a minimum.
Controlled systems
Client financial data is processed on secured, access-controlled systems. It is never sold, never shared with third parties, and never exposed to public or cloud-based AI services.
Reviewed, then authorized
Independent review on every report and your sign-off before any filing mean nothing leaves our hands, or enters the record in your name, without being checked and approved.
Leadership
Who you are working with.
Cathie Jackson, Esq.
- Attorney (Esq.) — licensed to practice law
- Founder of the firm and its disclosure practice
- Decades preparing federal judicial disclosure reports
- Thousands of filings personally handled
- Authority on the reviewing Committee's expectations
- Architect of the firm's methodology & quality standards
Cathie Jackson, an attorney, is the founder of FDR. Long before the firm took its present form, she built the dedicated financial-disclosure practice that is its foundation — establishing, over decades of work with the federal bench, the methods and standards the firm still runs on today.
In that time she has personally prepared thousands of reports and become a recognized authority on the substance and mechanics of judicial financial disclosure: the governing statutes, the reviewing Committee's expectations, and the Judiciary's filing systems. Her judgment on how the rules apply to real, complicated disclosures is the experience every engagement draws on.
Richard J. Pascarella, Esq., MBA
- Attorney — admitted in DC, CT, NH & MO
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Trustee — family, asset & portfolio-management trusts
- Asset & portfolio manager — real estate asset management
- Professional certification, Real Estate Asset Management — Cornell
- M&A, entity structuring & complex transactions
Richard Pascarella leads the firm's operations, client relationships, and the modernization of its reporting and technology infrastructure. An attorney and MBA, he serves as a trustee and portfolio and asset manager, with a specialty in real estate asset management and a Cornell professional certification in the field.
That background — valuing assets, managing portfolios and trusts, and structuring complex holdings — maps directly onto the work of accurate disclosure, where the correct treatment of investments, partnerships, trusts, and transactions is precisely what matters. He brings that fluency to a practice that depends on precision and discretion.
Verify our bona fides
Confirm who we are before you respond.
If you received our brochure, a letter, or an email about disclosure services, use this page to confirm the material is genuinely from FDR, PLLC — then review leadership credentials below.
- Legal entity: FDR, PLLC — a District of Columbia professional limited liability company
- Official website only: fdrpllc.com — authentic firm materials reference this address
- Physical office: The Clinton Exchange (Former Federal Building), 101 North Clinton Street, Suite 102, Syracuse, New York 13202
- Leadership: Cathie Jackson, Esq. (Founder & Director of Legal Services) and Richard J. Pascarella, Esq., MBA (Managing Member) — full bios in Leadership
- Contact email domain: @fdexperts.com only — e.g. staff@fdexperts.com, cjackson@fdexperts.com, rpascarella@fdexperts.com
- Not affiliated with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the U.S. Judicial Conference, or any federal court
If names, address, or contact information do not match, or if you are unsure whether outreach is from us, email staff@fdexperts.com directly before sharing financial information or authorizing anyone as your designee.
A confidential conversation, whenever it suits you.
Tell us where you stand and what's due. We'll explain exactly what your filing involves and how we'd take it off your hands — no obligation.
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