I try cases. I use technology to investigate and defend them. From federal wire fraud to state murder trials, I represent people facing the most serious charges.
I've tried over sixty cases to verdict in state and federal court, across the full range of federal and state felonies. The pattern is the same in every one — the government builds its case on evidence it expects no one will challenge at its foundation.
Most modern prosecutions turn on digital evidence. Cell site records placing someone at a scene. Data pulled from a phone. Wire taps, encrypted messages, surveillance footage, metadata. I work with this evidence directly — to investigate a case before trial, and to challenge the government's theory when the case is tried. It's also what I teach; I lead training sessions on digital evidence at the biannual Techniques in Electronic Case Management conference, hosted by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts for Defender Services.
That work is what separates a case prepared for trial from a case prepared to plead. Both paths are sometimes right. But the quality of the first determines the terms of the second.
I try cases in federal and state court. For eleven years, that meant representing people who could not afford to choose their lawyer — first as an Assistant Public Defender in Miami-Dade County, then as an Assistant Federal Defender in the Southern District of Florida and the District of Puerto Rico. I then spent three years in private practice at Stumphauzer Kolaya Nadler & Sloman, a Miami trial boutique, handling complex commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and internal investigations — before opening my own firm.
Those years shaped how I work. Public and federal defenders try more cases than most lawyers in private practice will try in a career, often against well-resourced prosecutors with cooperators, wire taps, and years of investigation behind them. The volume and seriousness of that work teaches you what actually matters in a case, and what the government's theory can and cannot bear when it's tested.
I've tried over sixty cases to verdict across federal and state court, spanning the full range of federal and state felonies. Some of those cases ended in acquittals. Some ended in dismissals mid-trial or before trial, after motions that deprived the government of evidence it needed. Some ended in convictions on lesser charges. And some ended in negotiated resolutions that came from the position I was prepared to argue at trial. Each outcome was a product of the same work — building a defense that was ready to be tried, whether or not it ultimately was.
My practice today focuses on the same kind of work, for clients who now choose their lawyer. I represent people charged with serious federal and state offenses, with an emphasis on cases where digital evidence is central — wire taps, cell site data, device extractions, encrypted communications, cryptocurrency, and the other forms of electronic proof that define modern prosecutions. That technical work is also what I teach; I lead training sessions on digital evidence at the biannual Techniques in Electronic Case Management conference, hosted by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts for Defender Services.
I'm admitted in Florida, New York, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. I practice in English and Spanish. My office is in Miami.
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