Practicing law successfully requires experience, efficiency and positive results.  You want a lawyer that exemplifies these attributes.  You see, many lawyers practice in many areas of the law, but many just are not that good.  

In this legal practice area, it is important to find a lawyer with trial experience, preferably a former prosecutor, and a lawyer who knows the police and judicial temperament within that County.  In all cases, especially criminal law, you want a lawyer that is going to call you back when you call him or her.  Criminal Defense cases are arguably the most difficult and the most important because they involve rights that are protected by the United States Constitution and a conviction in the law enforcement system will effect your employment, freedom and reputation for the rest of your life.  It is important to keep you out of prison, prevent you from getting a criminal record or expunging any record from the criminal justice system.