When you find yourself wrapped up in legal troubles, hiring the right lawyer for the job is your top priority. Not all lawyers are born equal, and not all lawyers are well-versed in the same areas of of law. You have to pick the right lawyer for your unique case in order to have a… Read more »
As a defense attorney and DUI practitioner, I get asked a lot of questions by my clients, friends, and fellow attorneys. But no question is more common than, “should I refuse the breathalyzer and/or the field sobriety tests (FSTs)?” Like most legal questions, this one is not easy to answer, either. Any attorney worth his… Read more »
It is not every day that you get a client who is being charged with a DUI while they were sleeping in their vehicle. Now that begs the questions, can you really be guilty of a DUI if the vehicle was not moving and you were unconscious or sleeping, even though you were located in the… Read more »
To follow my previous blog post about the importance of using your voice effectively when communicating with people, I would like to talk about another very important aspect when generally dealing with others. Aside from your vocal expression, there is another, somewhat hidden, form of expression a lot of us often miss — your body language. At… Read more »
Every day we use our voice. We use it to talk about what’s going on, what we would like to order at the drive through, and to yell at the schmuck who cut us off on the freeway. Unfortunately, most of us use it poorly. But it is not our fault — public schools rarely… Read more »
In one of my blog posts in November I discussed my very first expungement case. I explained that Kentucky allows a person to expunge certain criminal offenses (such as DUIs) and other misdemeanors if no new ones occur within a span of five years. In this post, I will explain what an expungement is, clarify… Read more »
This is kind of an odd post. But, I am writing it just for you. No, yea, you read that correctly — you, the client. You see, I have a confession to make. I was, still am, and always will be the DUI Guy; but, I feel that I need to confess a truth that… Read more »