Practice Areas : Criminal Law
Practice Areas : Appeals & Appellate
47 criminal defence attorneys practise in Orlando. Cases are prosecuted in the Ninth Judicial Circuit covering Orange and Osceola counties, with misdemeanours and felonies handled in separate divisions and federal charges going to the Middle District of Florida.
Ask how regularly the attorney appears before the Ninth Circuit judges, and how familiar they are with the diversion and pretrial intervention programmes available locally. On a first offence, eligibility for one of those is often the most valuable thing defence counsel can obtain.
Fees are normally flat and quoted by stage. Get in writing what the figure covers and whether trial is included.
Lawyers listed in Orlando also cover Personal Injury (51), Business Law (40) and DUI & DWI (34). The same practice elsewhere in Florida: Gainesville (21), Tallahassee (17) and Fort Myers (13). Across Florida the directory lists 205 attorneys in this practice; Orlando is 1st by their number among 18 cities.