drunk driving - DUI OWI
Defense Attorneys

With more than one million lawyers actively practicing law in the United States, you might be wondering how to find an attorney whom you can trust and rely upon to handle your criminal or drunk driving case in the manner that you would handle it if you had enough time to learn all of the laws to prepare yourself for a zealous prosecuting attorney and an impatient court. The Internet is full of thousands of attorneys, many of whom handle drunk driving cases, most of whom pay to get their names in directories, on referral boards, or "up in lights" to impress you and entice you to pick them first. You could ask friends for referrals, but if they haven't been through the overwhelming experience of being charged with drunk driving, how can they possibly know who is really good? Rumors? Ads? You can do as well by searching online.

The criteria that sets attorneys apart from one another, that justifies their fees, and that is worthy of your trust isn't how much they spend on advertising, nor how many of your friends they have helped with speeding tickets. No. What truly sets attorneys apart from one another is their knowledge of the law, their ability to formulate compelling legal arguments, and their records of winning cases simular to yours. However, finding that information has not been easy - until now. The majority of really great drunk driving defense lawyers are able to plea bargain charges, so a first offense gets plead down to a non-drunk driving offense, usually a simple traffic ticket. Those types of legal arguments aren't available in the many open records websites, nor in any legal records that you might find open to the public. Naturally, that presents an issue. In addition to a lack of legal records, the time that it takes to look through volumes of websites to find the compelling morsels evidencng a brilliant legal mind entails nearly an overwhelming and often unproductive amount of time.

The pages on this website can't provide you with legal advice, and they can't literally refer you to an attorney, but what they can do is point you to evidence of compelling legal arguments and the attorneys that have made them. These shortcuts will help you select the attorneys that you want to interview to handle your case.

Getting Legal Help

Drunk driving defense attorneys usually provide a free initial consultation so that you can determine whether you want to hire them. It may help to narrow your choices down to one to three attorneys to call, because you will likely need to make a decision quickly in order to avoid the harsh penalties of a missed administrative hearing or the opportunity to file a proper motion to suppress evidence or challenge a stop that could result in all charges being dropped.