Criminal Law Publications

Attacking and Defending Drunk Driving Tests

This start-to-finish guide to winning DUI trials provides sophisticated courtroom tactics, a concise and effective approach to voir dire, sample cross-examinations, trial-tested arguments, underlying science and law, and pattern motions with points and authorities.

California Drunk Driving Law

This big book is filled with solutions to the challenges facing DUI practitioners. From arrest to punishment, and additional charges to DMV hearings, the practical work overflows with cutting-edge tactics, analysis, and tools for mounting a successful defense. The number one book in its field.

Criminal Defense Tools and Techniques

This 800-page collection of tactics and forms blends proven strategies, pre-tested arguments, pitfalls to avoid, and wisdom from the trenches with 130 custom-drafted forms and 1,400 case citations. Coverage is start-to-finish, from initial representative through trial and sentencing to appeal.

Defending Drinking Drivers

"Whether you handle an occasional DWI and you’d like to do something more creative than plead out, or you can count your DWI cases in the hundreds, you’ll find much of interest here and much that you can use in your next case. ... it’s the best book on DWI defense that I’ve seen."

— Excerpted from the Vermont Bar Journal & Law Digest

Federal Criminal Practice

Pretrial release strategies, alternatives to prosecution, discovery angles, plea bargaining and agreement suggestions, sentence negotiation tactics, recent case-based examples, dozens of pretrial motions with memoranda, and hundreds of practice tips.

Federal Forfeiture Guide

Keep up with forfeiture law with the Guide's fact-heavy summaries and analysis of federal forfeiture cases--all circuit court and Supreme Court decisions and leading district court cases.

Federal Prison Guidebook

“The authors are to be congratulated for their success in extracting valuable institution-specific programming – unique, even one-of-a-kind, educational, vocational, religious and recreational opportunities – from the BOP and other contacts. This information is all but unknown outside a very small circle and is crucial to the clients’ overall incarceration experience.”

— Howard O. Kieffer, Santa Ana, CA, From a review in The Champion

Federal Sentencing Guide

"The Federal Sentencing Guide is simply the best way to get into the cases. The summaries are clear and the newsletters have last week’s cases."

— A. Chaset, Alexandria, VA

The Florida Criminal Cases Notebook

The Notebook amasses more than 8,000 case summaries, including every key criminal case since 1987. Written by one of the leading criminal specialists in Florida, it offers quick access to the most important cases with a comprehensive topical index.

Florida Criminal Trial Procedure

Milton Hirsch, one the state’s top criminal defense lawyers, has written a creative and tactical work which has been called “the leading treatise of its kind.” This sophisticated work includes motions, cautions, illustrations, shortcuts, and tips.

FORECITE California

Innovative DUI Trial Tools

Ninth Circuit Criminal Law Reporter

"The summaries are cogent, concise and accurate. The index stands out as superbly organized, and the ‘elusive case’ can be found in one-fourth the time it takes in other services."

— J. Ladar, San Francisco, CA

Relentless Criminal Cross-Examination

Strategies, arguments, examples, tips, and more for questioning arresting officers, detectives, toxicologists, eyewitnesses, informants, and accomplices. Pattern examinations for drug possession, DWI, sexual assault, fingerprint identification, and dozens of other common fact patterns.

Texas Criminal Jury Charges

This edition is now contained in a three-ring binder.  The book includes a CD-ROM featuring more than 440 model charges, indictments, informations and complaints.

Texas Criminal Lawyer's Handbook

"The lawyer’s handbook for Texas criminal practice is the most accessible and easy to use research tool in my library. The revisions and updates have me taking it to the courthouse on a regular basis."

— M. Stevens, San Antonio, TX