F. Lee Bai­ley Talk­ing at DUI Trial Skills Seminar

This was the best DUI Defense sem­i­nar I’ve ever been to. The sem­i­nar is held at Har­vard Law School every sum­mer and it’s known as the most advanced level DUI trial sem­i­nar in the world. It cov­ered every­thing you need to know to win a DUI trial from Open­ing state­ment, jury selec­tion, cross-examination, expert wit­nesses, clos­ing argu­ment, and all things in between. F. Lee Bai­ley was the fea­tured speaker. He is one of the lawyers for the defense in the O. J. Simp­son mur­der case.  He also rep­re­sented Pat­tie Hearst, and Sam Shep­pard, (The Fugi­tive).  Could here a pin drop in here when he spoke. I feel hon­ored to have been been among these great DUI Defense war­riors. Being with these peo­ple made me remem­ber why I became a lawyer. My job is to find jus­tice no mat­ter how well she may hide her­self. I have a chance to save the world one DUI case at a time.

The din­ner party

George Bianchi has a mus­tache like the cow­boys in Tomb­stone. He invited me for din­ner at “The Har­vest.” So I went. With him was the group that runs the show. The man, George Bianchi is a great DUI lawyer from Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton.  He is Dean of the National Col­lege of DUI Defense (NCDD).  This man is one of the warmest peo­ple I’ve ever known.  Two days later he gave what one DUI lawyer said was “the best new Dean wel­com­ing speech I’ve been priv­i­leged to hear in 7 years at Har­vard.”  As I walked to my seat I see Roger Dodd sit­ting at the table. Roger Dodd is the best cross-examiner in the world, as far as I can tell. I use his enor­mous red book: Cross-Examination: Sci­ence and Tech­niques to pre­pare for every cross-examination I do.  He was teach­ing us the next day all about how to cross-examine in a DUI case. This guy is amaz­ing to lis­ten to. I pity the folks who have to be crossed by him.  Down the table was Tommy Kirk, a great gen­tle­man from Mont­gomery, Alabama. Tommy Kirk is a mas­ter closer (in clos­ing argu­ment) in a DUI case. He tells a story so good that I could lis­ten to him all day long.  Across from Tommy was Steve Ober­man, DUI lawyer from Knoxville, Ten­nessee.  Mr. Ober­man is the author of DUI: The Crimes & Con­se­quences in Ten­nessee; and the co-author of Drunk Dri­ving Defense with Lawrence Tay­lor, DUI lawyer of Long Beach, Cal­i­for­nia. Both texts are widely relied upon by judges, pros­e­cu­tors and defense lawyers. Steve is the man whose book and DVD I use to sharpen my cross of the field sobri­ety test. He is a great lawyer and a teacher.  Across from me was Mike Hawkins, a top DUI lawyer in Atlanta, Geor­gia.  Mike has taught at sev­eral sem­i­nars I’ve attended.  I know who he is mainly because of Anthony Pala­cios, who is a top expert on DUI field sobri­ety test­ing and train­ing.  The next day I’d be in front of Mike doing cross-examination and he would be cri­tiquing me.  I’d be learn­ing at the feet of the mas­ter.  Right next to me was Paul Burglin, one of the best DUI lawyers in San Francisco, California.  He is co-author of “Cal­i­for­nia Drunk Dri­ving Law”, a two-volume trea­tise com­monly referred to as “the Bible of DUI Defense.” Paul is awesome.

Writ­ten by Jason Cerbone

What’s up. I’m Jason Cer­bone. Am try­ing to be the expert DUI attor­ney cham­pion of the world. Hope this doesn’t sound over-confident but you have to have con­fi­dence to be a cham­pion and that is the only thing I ever wished to be.

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