Patrick Barone has been defending drinking drivers since 1992. He founded the Barone Defense 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. The Barone Defense Firm includes four highly skilled lawyers devoted to drunk driving defense exclusively; no other cases are accepted. Because of this the Barone Defense Firm has become synonymous with DUI defense.
Barone attributes much of his success to a combination of the firm’s focus, knowledge and execution in the court room. 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.
Mr. Barone is also an adjunct professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School where he teaches a course entitled "Drunk Driving Law and Practice." This is believed to the only dedicated drunk driving course offered at any law school anywhere in the United States. The course combines criminal law, constitutional law, and forensic science into one course, and course topics include the science involved in drunk driving, such as alcohol metabolism, breath and blood testing, and field sobriety testing. Students also have the opportunity to apply what they learn in a mock trial at the end of the semester.
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 the device as well as perform on it essential diagnostic verifications and calibration checks.
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Patrick Barone has been defending drinking drivers since 1992. He founded the Barone Defense 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. The Barone Defense Firm includes four highly skilled lawyers devoted to drunk driving defense exclusively; no other cases are accepted. Because of this the Barone Defense Firm has become synonymous with DUI defense.