Criminal Defense

While sitting in my office yesterday, the cell phone rang. Caller ID said Stewart was calling. Some background: Before the ink was dry on my...

So today a potential client calls. Her whole family is arrested in a RICO case. Two family members are represented by one lawyer (something ...

Sometimes I wonder if people want to talk to attorneys rather than hire them. Today's one of those days. Girl calls, arraignment is toda...

UPDATE: JIm Robinson said in an interview that he applied to be removed from the terror watch list 3 YEARS AGO, and is still on the list. WA...

It's heartwarming to know that when you have a blog and stop writing for a while, you get treated as if you haven't called your moth...

What happened to us? What are we all so afraid of, and when did we become so afraid of, everything? This includes me, although I'm growi...

The other day I was listening to a federal judge talk about, what federal judges like to talk about - how we lawyers should treat them, prac...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- A 10-year-old Lincoln girl dying of brain cancer has one wish -- for her father to be at her bedside. It isn't likely t...

Six a.m., the number one time for police, federal agents, to bust in the house, wife and kids woken up crying, begging, "no, no, no!...

When I joined the public defender's office out of law school I was told: "don't ever talk to the media." I haven't fol...

Those in the legal field often say that "criminal lawyers are the only civil lawyers." This comes from the notion that civil lawye...

I haven't blogged here since Christmas Eve. I've been sitting back, and watching our system continue to deteriorate into a circus of...

Something off-topic for Christmas Eve, a perfect assessment of how embarrassing we are as voters. Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For...

So said one of my hometown heroes of our profession, David O. Markus yesterday at the Miami Criminal Defense Bar's Holiday Seminar and ...

There are certain things that go on in the criminal practice that none of us talk about. Undercutting each other to get cases,traveling to o...

"I could never do what you do." I hear that weekly. I have always said the same thing about divorce lawyers. Some of the stuff you...

Our criminal justice system is totally screwed up. No, I didn't just realize that, it's what keeps me doing what I do, defending the...

Yesterday I ventured into traffic ticket court. I don't go there all that often anymore. I know some of you "big criminal defense l...

Because I have to leave for the airport 6 hours before my flight to get through the throngs of media reporting on the throngs of people, I w...

This morning, one of our courthouse resident complainers was asking me how I handle clients that don't pay after I get them a great resu...