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Persuasion through being open, without revealing secrets nor all weak spots

December 23, 2016

At the Trial Lawyers College, I learned that its founder Gerry Spence is at once an incredibly powerful persuader, very in touch with his strengths and weaknesses, and ready to reveal his vulnerabilities. This started out as simply with Gerry's voicing his disappointment that "Nobody...

Thanking my colleagues who share ideas for our criminal defense clients to win

December 2, 2015

Criminal defense lawyers never need to feel alone. Mutual support is just one phone call or courthouse hallway holler away. Victory often is not as elusive as it may at first seem for our initially tough-appearing cases.

He offers great advice and gives you the confidence you seek moving forward with your case
Jon Katz is a top notch defense attorney. He and his staff handled my case with true professionalism. Jon is very honest and will fight tooth and nail to get you the best possible outcome. He is highly knowledgeable, and well versed with anything pertaining to criminal law. He offers great advice and gives you the confidence you seek moving forward with your case. He has my vote. Thanks Jon!
TG
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A tireless advocate for his clients
I am always happy when I have a criminal defense case to refer to Jon. He’s a tireless advocate for his clients, and I know the will be in good hands.
Andrew Flusche
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He runs a meticulous outfit, and his support staff was excellent.
FAIRFAX CRIMINAL LAWYER I met Jon two days ago. He had started driving from Fairfax at six in the morning – crossing nearly the entire state to defend me in a small town that looked like it was frozen in the nineteen-forties.
The town looked like a set for Mississippi Burning. There were some beautiful buildings – but it also seemed menacing. I had been charged in this small town, and had spent months trying to arrange an adequate legal defense – from my home in Miami.
When I was first charged, I was overwhelmed by the situation. I then did what you are doing now: looked thru online reviews for the best lawyer for my case. Jon fit the bill so I called him. Since then, it has been several weeks of intense back and forth with him. He runs a meticulous outfit, and his support staff was excellent. They worked very hard to collect and compile all the useful documents. Everything worked. No mistakes.
I had multiple phone conversations with Jon, but, because of the long distance, had not met him in person. The court date was two days ago. I had arranged to meet Jon in a diner a few blocks from the courthouse. Before Jon arrived, I was in pretty bad shape. I had made a series of stupid mistakes, which had led to the charges, and I understood that, if things didn’t break my way – I was facing serious prison time. Jon walked into the diner, and sat down across from me. He has more than a passing resemblance to Bobby Kennedy. He also has something rare: Star Power. People in the diner, and later in the courthouse, followed him with their eyes. He is a person who immediately meets your eyes, and holds the eye contact. It was like suddenly being in a John Grisham movie, and you are on the side of the angels. Think of it like having Gus Grissom from CSI Las Vegas, sit down across from you at a diner- and he says he can help you. Jon ordered a black coffee and lifted two huge brown paper binders on to the table. He carefully flipped thru pages that he and his staff had organized with tabs. He had all my important defense documents immediately accessible.
Jon and I walked a few blocks to the courthouse. The sky was a steely overcast slate grey. We went thru the security guards with their holstered Glocks. He went thru some heavy doors to talk to the Prosecutor. The court doors then opened and we were directed to approach the bench. The prosecutor was an attractive woman, in a perfectly tailored outfit. She started talking to the Judge and seemed to be advocating FOR ME! I don’t fully understand what happened, but Jon had arranged for the case to be amended downwards, and then an on the spot dismissal with no guilty plea, no conviction, and several thousand dollar fines were reduced to a hundred dollar court cost.
We left the Courthouse – back into the worn brick town. He drove me to my hotel in his vintage sport’s car. I was left standing there outside my hotel on a cold January day in rural Virginia. My life had changed in a matter of hours. Jon had saved my life.
K. H.
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Trial Lawyers College

Persuasion through being open, without revealing secrets nor all weak spots

Thanking my colleagues who share ideas for our criminal defense clients to win

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