Davis Law Group is led by Maurice Davis, a criminal defense attorney in Detroit with more than 20 years of practice.
The firm handles OWI and DUI charges, drug and marijuana cases, firearms offenses, theft, fraud, sex crimes, and violent felonies. Expungement work is also part of the practice.
Reported results include a felony firearm charge reduced for a Detroit man and an assault charge dismissed in Wayne County. Consultations are free and the phone is answered around the clock. Offices in Southfield, Flint, and Port Huron cover the rest of Southeast Michigan.
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Grabel & Associates is one of the few Michigan firms that take criminal cases only, statewide and in Detroit-area courts.
Scott Grabel founded the practice in 1999, and its attorneys carry more than 100 years of combined experience. The firm reports a 97% success rate on driver's license restoration and has won reversals at the Michigan Court of Appeals.
David J. Kramer has defended people in Southeast Michigan since 1992, working out of Novi and a downtown Detroit office on Griswold Street.
His practice covers felony and misdemeanor charges, including criminal sexual conduct, domestic violence, drug crimes, drunk driving, assault, and retail fraud. Federal matters such as mail fraud, health care fraud, and obstruction of justice are also handled here.
Kramer takes cases across Oakland, Wayne, Macomb, Washtenaw, and Livingston counties, and he has been named to Michigan Super Lawyers. Family law rounds out the practice. The first consultation costs nothing.
George Law is a Royal Oak firm that pairs criminal defense with business and civil litigation.
Derrick and Maggie George represent people facing misdemeanors, felonies, drug charges, gun charges, and federal indictments. The team also handles OWI defense, driver's license restoration, and Michigan expungements.
Both partners appear regularly in Oakland and Wayne County courts, and clients have left more than 500 five-star Google reviews. A second Michigan office sits in Birmingham, with additional locations in South Florida. Phones are staffed at any hour.
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Aaron J. Boria takes cases to a jury when other lawyers would push a client toward a plea.
From his Plymouth office, he defends drunk driving, assault and domestic violence, drug possession, retail fraud, gun charges, and traffic offenses. Driver's license restoration is a strength, with a success rate close to 100% for revoked licenses.
Attorney Boria appears often in district courts across Wayne and Oakland counties, including Livonia, Westland, Plymouth, and Novi. He has been listed in DBusiness Top Lawyers since 2019.
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Julian J. Poota has practiced criminal law in Michigan for more than 20 years, with a Southfield office that serves Metro Detroit.
He takes misdemeanors and felonies alike, from assault and weapons charges to drug crimes, retail fraud, embezzlement, and computer offenses. Clients under investigation can bring him in before a warrant is issued.
Past outcomes include a not-guilty jury verdict on domestic violence and a concealed weapon charge dismissed after the preliminary exam.
Former prosecutor Lisa Kirsch Satawa leads Kirsch Daskas Law Group, a Bloomfield Hills practice with a Detroit office on Adelaide Street.
The firm concentrates on the hardest allegations: child abuse, criminal sexual conduct, sexting and image-sharing cases, firearms, homicide, and self-defense claims. Education law and expungement matters are handled as well.
Satawa has appeared on the Michigan Super Lawyers list since 2009 and among Michigan's Top 50 Women Lawyers since 2014. Consultations are free.
Jonathan Jones is a Royal Oak defense lawyer who has handled criminal matters exclusively since 1995.
His work spans sex crimes, violent offenses, homicide, fraud, drug charges, weapons violations, cybercrimes, and juvenile cases at the state and federal level. Clients reach him directly by phone or text rather than through staff.
Jones was named to the 2024 Michigan Super Lawyers list and takes cases across Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Monroe counties.
Kevin Bessant has spent more than 20 years in Michigan courtrooms, with a downtown office on Library Street.
His firm handles bond hearings, felony and misdemeanor charges, drug possession and sales, gun charges, probation violations, and record expungement. Case evaluations are free, even for people already in custody.
Bessant has been named to Michigan Super Lawyers every year since 2015. Eastpointe and Southfield offices serve clients outside the city.
Sanford A. Schulman has filed or appeared in federal court more than 5,000 times across a 35-year career.
His Detroit firm, based in the Guardian Building, defends drug conspiracy, RICO, weapons, white-collar, homicide, and child exploitation charges. He has argued in the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, the Sixth Circuit, and the Michigan Supreme Court.
Two of his cases drew writs of certiorari from the United States Supreme Court, one of them decided 9-0 in his favor.
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Ellen K. Michaels is a criminal defense lawyer in Detroit whose case list runs to first-degree murder, criminal sexual conduct, and felony firearm charges.
Reported outcomes include murder counts dismissed at the preliminary exam and not-guilty verdicts on assault with intent to murder. She also defends drug, domestic violence, gun, fraud, and white-collar cases.
Michaels steps in during police investigations, before any charge is filed, for clients across Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Monroe counties.
Samuel Bennett runs a Royal Oak practice built around close contact with clients and their families.
He defends drunk driving, drug delivery and possession, assaultive crimes, juvenile matters, theft, and sex offenses, and he files expungements and SORA removals.
Super Lawyers named Bennett a Rising Star three years running, and past clients have left more than 100 five-star reviews. Case reviews cost nothing.
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Edward Bajoka wrote the LexisNexis Practice Guide on Michigan criminal law, and he defends federal cases from the Guardian Building.
His caseload leans toward conspiracy and RICO, health care fraud, public corruption, and drug trafficking. Immigration crimes, denaturalization, and removal defense are handled as well. Consultations are free and confidential.
Michael A. Rataj has been involved in more than 100 criminal trials since opening his Detroit practice in 1989.
A Marine Corps veteran and Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, he now defends federal drug, RICO, health care fraud, and white-collar charges.
William W. Swor is a Detroit trial attorney with more than five decades of state and federal defense work behind him.
A past president of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, he tried the first post-9/11 terrorism case in the country and still handles appeals.
Jeffrey G. Schwartz worked as a Wayne County prosecutor on major felony assignments before opening his own office in 1986.
He defends murder, armed robbery, criminal sexual conduct, drug, and drunk driving charges, and he also takes juvenile court matters. A Southfield office serves Oakland County.