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“The more serious crimes are much more likely to end up resolving in a trial and that you will need a trial team and trial attorneys to handle those types of situations. Part of that is due to how harsh, for lack of a better word, Florida’s sentencing scheme is for certain types of crimes. Having a trial team, attorneys that are very experienced in trial is absolutely the utmost importance if you’re going to go into a trial. I mean, it’s probably the most important thing you’ll ever do in your life. There’s so much at risk.

We have a very, very large amount of trial experience, both because my partner and I started as prosecutors and have handled a large amount of trials and due to the fact that, when we originally opened the firm, we were also taking on cases as independent contractors for the Office of Regional Conflict Counsel, which is similar to a public defender’s office when there’s conflicts. That created a situation where we had a large amount of trial cases, more than most can experience that are just in private practice.

Many, many cases resolve in some form of plea agreement. I would say upwards of 90%. Because of that, if you’re only handling private cases and lower-level cases, you just don’t see the courtroom, the trials the way that you would if you had prosecutorial experience as well as some type of experience on the defense side taking these independent contract cases.”