7 Criminal Defense Lawyers to Avoid
If you are charged with a crime, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Unlike civil lawsuits, which are merely about money, criminal prosecutions are the real deal. You can lose your liberty, rights,...
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[Ed. note — this article is reprised by popular demand.] If you are charged with a crime, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Unlike civil lawsuits, which are merely about money, criminal prosecutions are...
View ArticlePlaying Games with Client’s Lives
Criminal law is about as serious as it gets. Our clients’ liberty, reputations, freedoms, rights, opportunities, property — and even their lives — are at risk. What we do affects not just our...
View ArticleStraight Talk
“Why didn’t you tell me that before?” This is not something you want your lawyer to be asking you in the middle of trial. Or worse yet, in the cells after you’ve lost your trial. And yet it is a...
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The call came, as they always do, at the last minute. “I’ve been charged with a crime, and I have to be in court in two days, and my lawyer isn’t doing anything, and I’m scared.” The caller came in to...
View ArticleStatistical ranking of defense lawyers? Maybe, but not this way.
It’s an intriguing notion: that one can objectively assess the relative effectiveness of a given lawyer. With hard data, and sound analysis. In the real world, it’s nigh impossible to tell how good a...
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