Top Criminal Defense Attorneys - Actual Expertise

By Stephen G. Cobb, Board Certified Criminal Trial Law Specialist

As you can see from my last entry, top criminal defense attorneys are always designated BCS in Florida: Board Certified Specialists. Since Google’s goal is to suck every last nickel from you, they deliberately skimp on attorney qualifications in order to profit at your expense and that of your legal team.

In contrast, here are some things to consider if you are looking for top criminal defense attorneys in Florida:

1. The Florida Bar requires each lawyer seeking to become a specialist to submit the names of lawyers familiar with the skill and expertise of a prospective criminal law specialist. Most lawyers submit people they are on good terms with. The Bar has never been fooled by this since they also require.
2. The names of courtroom opponents. Many consider themselves to be your enemies in court. This is like asking for a negative review.
3. The names and contact information of trial judges in trial cases and judges who know you even if you have not had trials in front of them.
4. Each of these three types of reviews have very specific skill and ethics questions. Ethics are also factored in with…
5. Full disclosure of any client grievances, disciplinary results and an internal analysis of fitness for designation as a specialist by the Florida Bar.

This is far above the non-existent bar set by Big Tech financial predators like Google. Again, Google does not care about the quality of legal representation you get. If Google actually cared, they would factor Board Certification in their search rankings. Yet Google does not. Instead, they bully law firms with their search algorithm into playing the Google Review game without any concern for your privacy. A criminal defense law firm’s ranking is based in part by potentially privacy destroying reviews.

If you have been arrested, prosecuted and by some miracle have your charges dismissed, do you really want to tell the world you have an arrest record? Of course not. You want it erased from the Internet and expunged. Nevertheless, the reality is:

Cases do not go to the best lawyers.
They go to the best marketers.

The best law firm marketers hound you mercilessly for 5 star Google reviews despite the fact it is not in your best interest to disclose on the Internet that you have an arrest record. This is how you leave a review without blabbing to the world your business:

Create and use a dump email address

Now, as ancient television commercials from the cable only days would say, “but wait! That’s not all!” In our next section about how to hire top criminal defense attorneys in Florida, we will discuss the importance of actual trial experience.