How To Choose An Attorney
Regardless of the type of legal problem that you face, the most important decision you make which will affect the outcome is which attorney & law firm you select to represent you. Many factors should be considered when making your choice. Education, training, experience are all substantial considerations of course, but equally important are firm reputation, resources, individual integrity and someone with whom you feel comfortable. After all, this lawyer and your law firm will be dealing with many sensitive, personal & confidential issues and your future or the future of your family may depend on the outcome of your matter.
Our attorneys are experienced and trained in not only the legal aspects of handling cases, but also in the tactical considerations on how the case should progress. In addition, our firm uses the latest technology to assist in ensuring that all clients get the highest quality legal service possible. We have an attorney on call 24 hours a day, 265 days a year to ensure that clients are always able to obtain legal advice in the event of an emergency. Since we have multiple attorneys with varying backgrounds, experience and legal styles, we have the resources that allow us to be able to select the right attorney from our team of attorneys for specific parts of your case or in some cases, have more than one attorney participate simultaneously in more complex courtroom hearings or trials to ensure that clients get the best possible outcome.
Ask questions when you shop around, all lawyers are not the same, and we strongly recommend you hire a firm, not just one lawyer.
Consider letting us put to work for you the diverse backgrounds of our team of lawyers which include the following: for more information on our attorneys, visit their biographical information on the attorney's page.
Unique Firm Assets
- Uniformed patrol police and Sheriff's Office
- White House Counsel's Office, The White House, Washington, D.C.
- Office of management staff, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Washington, D.C.
- Insurance defense law firm experience
- Judicial staff attorney experience for circuit judges
- Chairperson of local grievance committee which disciplines lawyers who have violated the rules governing lawyers
- Chairperson of local family law section of EJCBA
- Criminal defense jury trial litigation experience
- Criminal prosecution jury trial litigation experience
- Certification in collaborative law divorces
- Experience within the Guardian Ad Litem program which protects children's interests in cases
- Court room bench and jury trial experience
Practice Area Experience
- Criminal Cases:
- Our attorney staff have experience from making arrest, to prosecuting arrests, to defending arrests, to conducting jury trials on both sides of the case.
- Personal Injury:
- Our attorneys have experience from investigating both minor and serious accidents as a police officer, to defending insurance companies from claims and lawsuits filed by injured parties, to aggressively pursuing claims against insurance companies and/or filing lawsuits when necessary.
- Family Law:
- Our attorneys have experience from prosecuting and defending juvenile cases which interact with DCF, DVI hearings.
- Prosecuted and defended both sides of child custody cases, both for mothers and fathers.
- Divided both amicably, through lawsuits, at mediation multi-million dollar divorce estates down to very small estates.
- Probate:
- Drafted wills and advance directives such as powers of attorney, living wills, health care surrogates.
- Handled summary administration of small probate estates.
- Handled multi-million dollar estates involving real property, businesses and non-U.S. citizens.
- Represented both the personal representative of the estate as well as other heirs who have an interest in the estate.