The number one biggest mistake that a person charged with drunk driving can make is to assume right from the start that there is no defense.
 

With our nationally renowned expertise in the area of DUI & OWI defense, the Barone Defense Firm is making headlines and receiving recognition from many media outlets.

Barone Appointed Adjunct Professor to Teach First of its Kind
Birmingham, Michigan attorney Patrick T. Barone has been appointed to the position of Adjunct Professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School where he will be teaching a ground breaking course entitled “Drunk Driving Law and Practice.”

Paranoia: Two New Bills to Toughen Drunk Driving Laws - Michigan’s legislators continue annually to draft and submit new bills that address some aspect of drunk driving - Summer 2007

New Drunk Driving Book Called "First of its Kind" - 10/2006
The DUI Book - Michigan Edition, "A Citizen's Guide Handbook on Fighting a Drunk Driving Case" now available!

The Sauce on Source Codes: Obtaining DUI Dismissals from Software Non-Disclosures - April 17, 2006

Barone authors top drunk driving defense treatise, as reported in: 20 Michigan Lawyer’s Weekly, 631, March 27, 2006.

Channel 4, WDIV, Paula Tutman’s pre-Saint Patrick’s Day report on drunk driving, March 16, 2006.

Radio Free Ann Arbor, WCBN, 88.3 FM, special guest for the Charmie Gholson Show explaining Michigan’s Operating Under the Influence of Drugs Laws, March 9, 2006.

Michigan Attorney Patrick Barone Named New Author of Top Treatise on Drunk Driving Defense - March, 2006

"New rules on drunken driving unfair", (article not online) Guest Opinion, The Oakland Press, December 18, 2005, pg. A-11.

"Keeping Retrograde Extrapolation Out of Your Next OWI Trial", The Right To Counsel, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp 13, Fall 2005.

"In the Jury Room, Justice Isn't Easy", The Detroit News, August 7, 2005

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