Patrick T. Barone
Mr. Barone is an adjunct professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School where he teaches Drunk Driving Law and Practice. He is also on the faculty of the Criminal Defense Attorney’s of Michigan’s Trial Lawyer’s College where he provides trial skills training to Michigan’s criminal defense practitioners. Mr. Barone lectures nationally on various DUI defense topics, and he has appeared in newspapers, on television and on radio as a drunk driving defense expert.
Mr. Barone has been certified as an instructor and practitioner of the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and has also attended a 24-hour certification course at National Patent Analytical Corporation (the manufacturer of the DataMaster) and has thereby been deemed competent by the manufacturer to operate, perform essential diagnostic verifications and calibration checks on the DataMaster. Mr. Barone is a Sustaining Member of College for DUI Defense.
Mr. Barone is the principal and founding member of The Barone Defense Firm, whose practice is limited exclusively to defending drinking drivers. The Firm is headquartered in Birmingham, Michigan.
Barone, who has been handling drunk driving cases since 1992 founded the firm in 1999, the same year when one of the state’s most sweeping new drunk driving laws went into effect. Barone realized that because DUI laws are strictly enforced and carry steep penalties, people need attorneys with a high level of expertise. Barone is such an expert, and because of this his firm has become synonymous with DUI defense.
Barone attributes much of his success in the court room to understanding both the law and science. Mr. Barone is the co-author of two books on DUI-related issues, including Defending Drinking Drivers (James Publishing) a well-known and highly respected multi-volume national legal treatise, and The DUI Book – A Citizen’s Handbook on Fighting a Drunk Driving Charge. Mr. Barone was also recently selected as the new executive editor of The DWI Journal, Law & Science, a nationally circulated legal periodical that for more than two decades had been dedicated to improving the success rate of defense attorneys in drunk driving cases. Additionally, Barone has taken two police training courses in DUI arrests and is certified as an instructor for standardized sobriety field testing. He is also certified by the manufacturer of the DataMaster, Michigan’s breath testing machine, as competent to operate, perform essential diagnostic verifications and calibration checks.
With the Barone Defense Firm, clients are assured of a complete defense. “Our clients hire us because we have the skill and confidence they need when it comes to DUI defense,” says Barone. Our attorneys investigate the testing procedures used at the scene and at the police station, the training of officers involved, the weather, the condition of the road, signage, lighting, and more. When appropriate, the firm also employs scientific experts to help validate its clients’ defense.
Armed with this specialized training and experience, the attorneys of the Barone Defense Firm never forget that they are representing honest, decent people. “In life,” says Barone, “sometimes bad things happen to good people.” The attorneys painstakingly present to the judge and prosecutor the client’s background, his or her law abiding lifestyle and valuable role in the family, and other important factors to secure a favorable outcome.
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