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What really makes my firm different than others is I’m very personal. It’s very hands-on for me. I sometimes get people to help me do research or something like that, but if you come to my firm, you get me. I’m the one who’s handling your case. I keep my overhead low on purpose so that I can personally handle people’s cases. Usually lawyers at my level are kind of on top of a big firm with numbers of associates. I don’t do that. You come in, I take your case, and I work on your case.

When you say the firm, we’re talking about me. I handle a broad range of criminal cases, pretty much the gamut of what can be criminal cases. A lot of my work is in federal court where I handle everything from murders, homicide cases that come from the Indian reservations, and then fraud cases to criminal immigration cases, major drug conspiracy, weapons violations. And then I also do a lot of work in Arizona state courts as well, both in the superior court of Arizona and in the municipal courts, which includes everything from homicide cases to different sex cases, sexting cases, sex abuse cases. So there’s a broad range of cases. I spent 17 years in the federal public defender’s office doing cases, two cases in the Maricopa legal defender’s office handling death penalty cases and other state cases. So I have a very broad range of experience I bring to bear.

I think the first thing you should look for is to make sure you have somebody who’s going to be attentive to you and your case. That doesn’t mean that you’re going to look for somebody who’s just going to tell you what you want to hear. A lot of times we as defense lawyers have to be straight with you and tell you exactly what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. Criminal laws can be very harsh, and you have hard decisions to make, and you need to know that you have somebody who’s in your corner, but who’s also going to tell you the truth and give you sound advice about what your options are. And after that, it’s your choice whether to go to trial or not, and you’d better have an attorney that’s ready and willing to either go to trial for you or help you with another resolution.

Phoenix, AZ criminal defense lawyer Robert J. McWhirter talks about what makes his firm different and what kind of cases he handles.

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