Hiring a criminal defense attorney is very important because if you find yourself in the position of facing criminal charges, a felony, a misdemeanor or even an infraction. Often times the courts won't give you the proper information you need to understand your rights, and how to assert those rights. Whether they be your constitutional rights in a trial or whether it just be your simple rights of can I pay this fine and be done with it, or can I take this to trial or can I take community service and resolve the case?

It's essential to interview with a criminal defense attorney, and find out how they can help you and if they can help you. Our firm is very unique. If you come to our office and we have a discussion, and I tell you there's not much I can do for you, which is a very rare situation, but often times it does happen. We'll tell you to go in there, what to do and to pay the fine and be done with it. I'm not going to charge a fee for someone who comes in with a traffic ticket, a speeding ticket, when all they have to do is go to traffic school and the case will be dismissed.

Most lawyers will say it's x amount of dollars and I'm just going to take the money and go in there and do what you can do yourself. I believe we believe a little bit of honesty and integrity into the practice of law. Along those lines, 99% of the time you need a criminal defense attorney, and you need our firm to help you. The reason for that is that we treat every case like you like our first client, our last client, and you are our only client. We tell you what your punishment could be, we tell you the worst case scenario, and we tell you the best case scenario. We don't make promises, because that would be completely unethical to do, but we tell you the likelihood of it winning at trial, the likelihood of resolving the case with the district attorney or the city attorney, and we basically allow you to become more informed.

Most people who come to my office are very scared about what's happening to them. We are infact what a lawyer used to be called, we are counselors at law, we give you counsel and advise about what you are up against, and hopefully give you some level of comfort about how the case can proceed and how we can help you.