Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

I grew up with a lot of anger. Of course, anger is rooted in fear. When I did not feel anger, I often felt a lot of tension. It took decades for me to come to sufficient grips with the bigotry that so many people directed...

When I started practicing at my first law firm in 1989, I received a gift of two high-priced framed antique magazine caricatures of dead white British lawyers wearing powdered horse hair wigs. They have remained in their original box ever since. Gone must be the days...

Recently — I think in one of Ram Dass’s two recent books — I was re-reminded how important it is not to take others’ seeming trespasses personally. For instance, if person A is yelling at person B, that may be more of a manifestation of...

All trials on behalf of criminal defendants have their own challenges and opportunities. Here are some significant challenges that will or might come the way of a criminal defense lawyer in a multidefendant case: The co-defendants’ lawyers must find as much harmonious effort as possible in...

Most criminal defendants do not care how they win, just as long as they win. For most criminal defendants, a case dismissal is as good as an acquittal in most respects. Here are some key differences: An acquittal prohibits the defendant from being re-prosecuted for...

As I became ten years old and beyond, I noticed more often the premium that was paid for children to act more mature as they got older. Why? To have a disconnect with the power of our children within? To become easily tamed humanoids, so...

Somehow my September 15, 2008, blog entry about our law firm’s symbol became elusive online, so I reprint it here: At the Trial Lawyers College, the inevitable day comes when everyone is handed a paintbrush, and is told to tell an important personal story through painting,...

Fox News interviewed me for the third time in less than three months. on August 24 on Justice With Jeanine, about having non-English speakers on criminal juries. I came ready with many ideas, but, as is common for short interviews, the questions to me only...

I love my work. I serve my clients and justice, I practice the art of persuasion, and I stand up against injustice. Plenty of my work, also, involves solitary moments preparing, thinking, researching, and writing. I wake for exercise and then work when most people are sleeping, and...

Imagine a hemp festival where the music is playing, many in the crowd are smoking marijuana, the police are not interfering with their marijuana enjoyment, and the police are even handing out free bags of munchies (albeit with a label inviting a visit to a...