Potential clients seeking information about the criminal justice process often ask if I specialize in the exact offense with which they are charged. Of course, no criminal defense attorney specializes in juvenile burglary cases, domestic violence between same sex partners cases, or grandparent child molestation cases. The reality is there is probably not enough business in any particular area of criminal law to justify additional specialization beyond criminal defense. I suspect this is true throughout the United States, with one exception: Driving Under the Influence (DUI).
Driving under the influence (aka driving while intoxicated) is the one area where a number of attorney, especially young attorneys (i.e. graduated from law school in the last four years) choose to specialize. I suspect there are a number of reasons for that: (1) there are a number of CLE (continuing legal education) classes that focus specifically on training attorneys to defend DUI classes;
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