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What Kinds Of Cases Does A Felony Lawyer Typically Handle? The types of cases that a felony lawyer typically handles are wide-ranging. A criminal felony charge typically means one that carries a punishment of one year or longer in prison. In addition, a felony lawyer...

Which Is Better: A Criminal Defense Law Firm Or A Criminal Defense Lawyer? I am often asked, when meeting with a potential new client regarding criminal charges they are facing, whether they should be focusing on hiring a criminal defense law firm versus the criminal...

In order to legitimately defend against money laundering charges, a best-practice Chicago defense attorney must know a bit more about the subject than the education provided by the red-hot Netflix series “Ozark.” However, candidly, Ozark might present the subject in a...

The best criminal lawyers in Chicago are increasingly being called up to represent individuals and companies in federal prosecutions arising out of alleged "PPP fraud." The following are some things of note that the best criminal lawyers in Chicago are becoming...

There are a lot of characteristics that go into being recognized as one of the best criminal attorneys in Chicago. Nince such criteria readily come to mind when evaluating what leads to becoming one of the best criminal attorneys in Chicago. First, a top criminal...

As a Chicago criminal defense lawyer, there are a wide variety of offenses for which we regularly provide representation at trial. This post will briefly address some of the drug crimes for which a Chicago criminal defense lawyer is called upon to provide a defense....

There are a number of factors that qualify an attorney to be a top Chicago white collar criminal attorney. First, he or she has to actually handle these types of cases on a regular and continuous basis. I am often surprised to see Google and other forms of...

There are a number of factors to go into the approach taken by a strong and sophisticated Chicago drug crime lawyer. For starters, a Chicago drug crime lawyer must take seriously, and convince his client to take seriously, any actual or threatened drug prosecution,...

In conversations with clients, one of the issues that is often discussed is what is the difference between a federal criminal defense lawyer and a State or local criminal defense lawyer. Clients often indicate that they are looking for, or have been told to look for,...

As a federal criminal defense lawyer based in Chicago, I am often asked what are the key elements of a Top Chicago Federal Criminal Attorney. It all starts with a track record of proven success in federal criminal jury trials. It may come as a surprise, but many of...