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We will evaluate your case free of charge. Please fill out the Potential Client Questionnaire and submit it to us. All information is strictly confidential.

Once we receive your Questionnaire someone will contact you.

We may need to assist you in sending a request for a hearing on your DPS license suspension matter, if indeed your license is at risk. You can determine if your license is at risk by reading about the 10 Day Warning. We do not require that you hire any of our attorneys on this, but we do charge a nominal fee for preparing the letter in your name outlining all available legal attacks on the Police Officer's proposed suspension of your license. The letter that we prepare for you is extremely technical and detailed. Once we prepare it, you pay for the letter, sign it and we send it by CERTIFIED MAIL on your behalf and we also send it by FAX to the Missouri Department of Public Safety, as an extra precaution to assure delivery. All of this is done for a fee of $100.00, if you come in to sign the letter and pay us while you are here. We can also handle this by phone if you have a MC/Visa card that we can charge this to. If you wish to do this, we will send the letter to DPS under your name for you. We will send you a copy of your letter and we can mail to you our comprehensive questionnaire and our one-of-a-kind information package. Because we must pay postage and handling, we must charge an extra $5.00 for orders handled entirely over the phone, so your charge would be $105.00. For an extra $10.00, we can send your information package to you by overnight delivery.

Once we have sent this letter appealing the proposed suspension of your license, we depend on you to READ the information that we provide to you for FREE, and we also depend on you to FILL OUT COMPLETELY the questionnaire that we have created to help us to find ways to win your case. Your memory and recollection of the events that led up to your arrest are critical, and so are the facts that occurred at the roadway, at jail, etc. Our forms cover everything, but your informed input is essential.

When your have completed and RETURNED the paperwork that we have requested, we will have someone call you within 48 hours to set up an appointment for you with one of our attorneys, so that you can discuss your case fully AT NO COST TO YOU. When we call you back, your questionnaire will have already been reviewed by one of our most experienced trial attorneys, and we will try to outline some of the positive aspects of your case. We will also try to match your case to one of our attorneys, based on your ability to pay and in which court your case is pending. You will discuss what your options are including whether you should fight you case or not.

Our attorneys set fees for cases based upon their level of experience, based upon whether your case has to go to trial or not, the complexity of your case (EXAMPLE: first offender cases are generally easier), the location of the court where your case is pending and other factors. Insofar as a price range for a CONTESTED DUI CASE, going all the way to trial, the range will be between $2,500 to $3,000 for our newer attorneys to $8,000 or more for our most experienced attorney, Mr. William C. Head. Typically, fees are paid in installments, with half payable as a retainer. There are eight more attorneys who charge fees between these upper and lower range fees. These fees, by the way, cover BOTH your criminal case for DUI and your administrative case, which is heard by the Missouri Department of Public Safety. You are facing two problems, in two different legal proceedings.

It is probably best that you not discuss the case with anyone not connected with an attorney's office, because your conversations would not be privileged, and the prosecutor could try to call any non-attorney as a witness against you.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS: Our office has the largest assemblage of attorneys in the United States whose primary area of practice is DUI Defense. We are TRIAL lawyers. Our business is not designed to plead you guilty or nolo contendere, but to find a non-DUI solution to this troubling problem that you face. We are able to do this in a majority of our cases without a jury trial. The package that you will receive from our office includes materials worth more than $35.00. What do you have to lose? The questionnaire package is free and the appointment is free. Our clients typically are men and women who have too much to lose to accept a DUI conviction on their record for the remainder of their lives.

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