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Patrick
T. Barone
Patrick T. Barone is the Author
of “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.” He is also executive
editor of “The DWI Journal: Law & Science”
(Whitaker Newsletters, Inc.), a nationally
circulated legal periodical dedicated to
improving the knowledge and success rate of
defense attorneys in drunk driving cases. Mr.
Barone has written dozens of articles on trial
practice and drunk driving defense tactics for
other legal journals and periodicals.
Patrick T. Barone is an adjunct
professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School
where he teaches “Drunk Driving Law and
Practice” at their Auburn Hills campus. 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,
field sobriety testing and trial skills.
Patrick T. Barone is on Faculty
of the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan
Trial Lawyer’s College and authors a monthly
column for the Criminal Defense Newsletter,
published by the State of Michigan’s State
Appellate Defender’s Office.
Mr. Barone lectures nationally
on various DUI defense topics, and he has
appeared in newspapers, on television and on
radio as a drunk driving defense expert.
Patrick T. Barone has been named
a Michigan “SuperLawyer” for years 2008-2010,
“Best Lawyers in Metro Detroit” for years 2008
and 2009 and has been listed in “America’s Best
Lawyers” 2009 and 2010.
Patrick T. Barone has been
certified as an instructor and practitioner of
the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests in
accordance with the standards set forth by the
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
and the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA). Partly as a result of
this training, Mr. Barone has been judicially
qualified as a court expert allowing him to give
opinion testimony before a jury regarding issues
relating to DUI investigations and police
officers’ field sobriety testing protocols. He
is believed to be the only attorney in Michigan
who has been so qualified.
Patrick T. Barone has also
attended a 24-hour certification course at
National Patent Analytical Corporation (the
manufacturer of the DataMaster) and has thereby
been deemed competent by the manufacturer to
operate, perform essential diagnostic
verifications and calibration checks on the BAC
DataMaster.
Patrick T. Barone is a member of
the Michigan and Illinois Bar Associations, The
Criminal Defense Association of Michigan, The
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
and is a Sustaining Member of College for DUI
Defense.
Patrick T. Barone is the
principal and founding member of The Barone
Defense Firm, whose practice is limited
exclusively to defending drinking drivers. The
Firm is headquartered in Birmingham, Michigan.
He may be contacted at (248) 594-4554 or on the
web at
www.winbackyourlife.org.
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