Patrick Thomas Barone

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Practice Areas

100% DUI / DWI
22 years, 1,000 cases

Fees and Payment Types

Fees

Fixed (Always), Free Consultation (60 minutes)

Payment types

Cash, Check, Credit Card

Contact Information

280 N Old Woodward Ave Ste 200

Birmingham, MI 48009

Office: 248-594-4554
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Videos (18)

Barone speaking at annual meeting of Michigan State Bar on topic of Michigan Super Drunk Law.

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Patrick T. Barone, Esq., is the principal and founding member of the Barone Defense Firm, with headquarters in Birmingham, Michigan. The Barone Defense Firm... more

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Client Reviews	Average Client Rating Current or former client? Write a review 46 reviews “Improved my life” Posted by: Patrick, 2 months ago. Client Review: Mr. Barone treated me respectfully from day one. He was firm, but fair in all of his dealings with me. His team was great to work with. They helped... more Flag “Patricks's Expertise Will Win It All!” Posted by: a DUI client, 4 months ago. Client Review: This past Summer (2012) I found myself in a situation I never thought I would be in. I was arrested for a DUI and my breathalyzer that night read a .... more Flag View all 46 reviews
Peer Endorsements	Endorsements 61 endorsements Lawyers: Endorse this lawyer Patrick Barone, or better known as "Professor Barone" to me, taught me everything I know about defending DUI/DWI's. He is VERY thorough. He takes... more Endorsement from lawyer: Anthony Johnson , Atlanta (GA), About 1 month ago I endorse this lawyer. Endorsement from lawyer: Michael Miller , Jefferson City (MO), About 1 month ago View all 61 endorsements

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“Improved my life”

Posted by: Patrick, 2 months ago.

Client Review: Mr. Barone treated me respectfully from day one. He was firm, but fair in all of his dealings with me. His team was great to work with. They helped... more

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“Patricks's Expertise Will Win It All!”

Posted by: a DUI client, 4 months ago.

Client Review: This past Summer (2012) I found myself in a situation I never thought I would be in. I was arrested for a DUI and my breathalyzer that night read a .... more

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61 endorsements

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Patrick Barone, or better known as "Professor Barone" to me, taught me everything I know about defending DUI/DWI's. He is VERY thorough. He takes... more

Endorsement from lawyer: Anthony Johnson , Atlanta (GA), About 1 month ago

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Endorsement from lawyer: Michael Miller , Jefferson City (MO), About 1 month ago

Résumé

License

22 years since Patrick Thomas Barone was first licensed to practice law.

State	License status	Year acquired	Last updated by Avvo
Michigan	Active And In Good Standing	1991	06/07/2013

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We have not found any instances of professional misconduct for this lawyer.

Work Experience

Position	Duration
Faculty - Trial Lawyer's College at CDAM - Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan	2009–present
Adjunct Professor at Thomas M. Cooley	2008–present

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Education

School	Major	Degree	Graduated
Detroit College of Law / Michigan State University		Juris Doctor	1991
Oakland University	Biology	Bachlor of Science	1987

Awards

Award Name	Granting Organization	Date
Top Lawyers	dbusiness	2013
Best Lawyer DUI/DWI	Best Lawyers in America	2013

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Associations

Position	Association Name	Duration
Member	American Association of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama	2011–present
Member	Vistage	2006–present

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Portfolio

Cases

.12 OWI Dismissed

Outcome: OWI Dismissed / Plea to Failure to Yield Emergency Vehicle

.14 Breath Test Case Reduced to Careless!

Outcome: OWI reducted to careless driving

Careless Plea Mid-Trial

Outcome: Careless driving / Open Intoxicants

Publications

Article	Publication	Date
A DUI Prosecutor's Ethical Obligation to Provide Favorable Discovery	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter	2009
Michigan Driver's Find Insurance Difficult to Obtain After DUI Conviction	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter	2009

Oakland County to Begin Virtual Work Release	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter	2009
A DUI Defense Lawyer Should Never be Required to Disclose Their Client's Prior Alcohol Related Convictions	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter	2009
DUI Defense Column: Well Drafted Fee Agreements in DUI Cases	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter	2009
DUI Defense Column: Confronting the OWI "Per Se" Charge:	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter	2009
Using Videotapes and PowerPoint to Persuade the Jury	DWI Law & Science Journal	2009
Advantages of Substance Abuse Treatment to the Drunk Driving Accused	DWI Law & Science Journal	2009
Confronting the Chemical Test: Using the Confrontation Clause to Keep Test Results Out of Evidence	DWI Law & Science Journal	2009
A DUI Lawyer's Duty to Preserve Client Confidences Should Take Precedence Over Candor to the Court	DWI Law & Science Journal	2009
Getting a High BAC Drunk Driving in 2010 will Really Blow!	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2009
Raising and Preserving Independent State Constitutional Grounds in DUI Cases	DWI Law & Science Journal	2009
An Unethical Lawyer and His Money Will Soon Go Separate Ways: How to Avoid Fee Agreement Disputes in Criminal Cases	DWI Law & Science Journal	2009
The Gun-Grabbing DUI Task Force: Loss of CCW Permit as a Collateral Consequence of Conviction	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2008
SWOTing Your Way to Not Guilty	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2008
EtG Tests Do Not Reliably Monitor Court-Ordered Abstinence in DUI Cases	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2008
Can the DataMaster Ever Accurately Measure Blood Alcohol?	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/ DUI Defense Column	2008
Casino Workers Shouldn’t Gamble with Drunk Driving	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2008
Getting and Holding Jurors' Attention During Voir Dire	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2008
Michigan Among the States with the Most Drunk Drivers	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2008
When a Breath Test Refusal is Not a Refusal	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2008
DUI and Deportation	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2008
An OWI Conviction May Bar International Travel	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2008
Identifying and Eliminating De-Facto Experts	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2008
Breaking Through to the Two-Word Verdict	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2008
Avoiding Claims for Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in DUI Cases.	DWI Law & Science Journal	2008
Using Alcohol Biomarkers to Monitor Court Ordered Abstinence	DWI Law & Science Journal	2008
General Due Process and the Importance of Assuring the Court’s Gate-Keeping Function in DUI Cases	DWI Law & Science Journal	2008
Judge vs. Attorney Conducted Voir Dire	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
Keeping Your Head Above Water in DUI Boating Cases: A Lawyer's Guide to Michigan's Drunk Boating Laws	Michigan Bar Journal	2007
Using Software to Assist the Jury in Understanding Alcohol Metabolism Calculations	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2007
Identification of Transdermal Alcohol	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
Good Trial Practice is Simply a Complicated Exercise in Restraint	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
May I Have Your Attention Please? Getting a Two-Word Verdict from a Two-Word Attention Span	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
The Current Status of Source Code Litigation	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
Two New Bills to Toughen Drunk Driving Laws	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2007
The Brave New World of DUI Defense	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
New Breath Testing Rules Offer Accused Less Protection Against Unreliable Evidence	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2007
Asking the Jury for Justice	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
DUI Discovery and the “126-Day” Rule: A Defense Attorney’s Perspective	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2007
Persuading Juries Using the Six Principles of Influence	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
Using Your Client’s Disability to Cripple the State’s Case	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
Serum Blood Defenses in DUI Cases: Why Serum Doesn’t Tell the “Whole” Story	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
Heidi’s Law Removes 10 Year Look-Back for Felony Drunk Driving	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2007
Representing the Out of State Driver	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2007
Using Common Metaphors and Analogies to Win at Trial	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2007
2 Volume Treatise	Defending Drinking Drivers	2006
Crafting Winning Arguments for Your Next OWI Trial	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2006
Does Anstey Suggest an Expanded Role for Michigan’s DUI Juries?	CDAM The Right to Counsel	2006
False Positives or Faulty Science — SCRAM Strikes Back	SADO Criminal Defense Newsletter/DUI Defense Column	2006
"Get Your Program Here” DUI Breath Tests, Computers, and Dismissals — Part II, For The Defense	Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers	2006
DUI Boating Offenses in Michigan: Which Defenses Might Float?	Michigan Beverage Institute Journal	2006
“Get Your Program Here” DUI Breath Tests, Computers, and Dismissals — Part I, For The Defense	Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers	2006
Source Code Defenses: Taking the ‘Byte’ Out of Breath Testing	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2006
Why the Greenfield Opinion is a “Brown Field” for DUI Defendants	Criminal Defense Newsletter	2006
The Sauce on Source Codes: Obtaining DUI Dismissals from Software Non-Disclosures	Michigan Beverage Institute Journal	2006
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Due Process Violations in SCRAM Cases	DWI Journal: Law and Science	2006
Unlocking the Mystery Behind Breath Testing: The Right of Access to Source Codes	20 Michigan Lawyer’s Weekly 714	2006
Citizen's Handbook on Fighting a Drunk Driving Charge	The DUI Book, Michigan Edition	2005
Michigan’s Drinking Drivers Denied Justice when the Supreme Court Places Speed Above Due Process	The Right To Counsel	2005
Keeping Retrograde Extrapolation Out of Your Next OWI Trial	The Right to Counsel	2005
Understanding Modern Drunk Driving Law Enforcement, A Laymen’s Primer on Standardized Field Sobriety Testing	Michigan Beverage Institute Journal	2005
Do "Standardized" Field Sobriety Tests Reliably Predict Intoxication?	Michigan Bar Journal	2005
DWI - Alcohol Monitoring Bracelets: Junk Science or Important Scientific Breakthrough?	The National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys Champion	2005
Using the Confrontation Clause to Win DUI Cases	Illinois State Bar Association’s Traffic Laws & Courts	2005
Examining Michigan's New MIP Law	Michigan Beverage Institute Journal	2004
Crawford Objections in DUI Cases: Paper Won’t Cut it Anymore	The Right to Counsel	2004
Using PowerPoint to Prove Your Point at Trial	Illinois State Bar Association's Tort Trends	2004
Michigan's New .08 Law Tightens Noose Around Drinking Drivers	Michigan Beverage Institute Journal	2004
Losing Blood and Liberty on America’s Highways: A Case Review	Criminal Defense Newsletter	2004
.08 and Other Changes: 2003 Changes to Michigan's Drunk Driving Laws	Michigan Bar Journal	2004
Understanding Quantitative Blood Alcohol Testing in Drunk Driving Cases,	Michigan Bar Journal	2003

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Speaking Engagements

Presentation Name	Conference	Date
Pressing the Not Guilty Button	Grad II: Spence Trial Lawyer's College	2012
Pressing the Not Guilty Button in Jurors’ Brains: How to Create and Present Compelling Case-Themes That Leave Jurors Yearning to Acquit	Advanced DUI Defense Seminar	2012

Pushing the Not Guilty Button in Jurors' Brains	2012 Public Defender Conference	2012
Michigan's New Super Drunk and Sobriety Court Laws	Mid-Winter Conference	2011
Pressing the Not Guilty Button in Jurors' Brains: How to Create and Present Compelling Case-Themes That Leave Jurors Yearning to Acquit	Mid West DUI Seminar: WINNING: Blows, Stops & Trials	2011
Applying the TLC Method to DUI Cases	Graduate II Program	2011
Developments in Defenses of Super Drunk Cases	Drunk Driving Defense Update	2011
Opening Statements	CDAM Trial Practice College	2011
Michigan's Super Drunk Law	Annual Meeting	2011
Making Transdermal Electrochemical Alcohol Violations “SCRAM	Masters of OWI Defense	2010
SCRAM Update and Michigan’s New Super Drunk Law	CDAM's Spring Conference and Awards Dinner	2010
Discovering the Story	Advanced OVI Seminar	2010
What Isn’t an Expert	Advanced OVI Seminar	2010
Best Practices Model: A Partnership with a Law Firm and a Treatment Center	11th Annual Conference	2010
Building and Managing Your Professional Reputation	DUI Fall Seminar	2009
The New DataMaster DMT: What's New, What's Different, What's Changed and How This Impacts the Defense of DUI Cases in Michigan.	Detroit/Wayne County Criminal Advocacy Program	2009
Fundamentals of a Drunk Driving Case	Criminal Brown Bag Series	2009
Metabolism of Alcohol; Drugged Driving Issues; Case Law Development	CDAM's 2009 Spring Conference and Awards Dinner	2009
DUI Defense Attorney's Role in Encouraging Recovery	Brighton Hospital	2009
Forensic Issues	The IICLE DUI Academy	2008
Legal Primer - Role of the Defense Attorney: Forensic Science Foundational Bases	Forensic Blood and Urine Seminar	2008
Having the Law at Hand: The 60 United States Supreme Court Cases You Need to Know	Forensic Blood and Urine Seminar	2008
Death and Serious Injury Felony Cases	Forensic Blood and Urine Seminar	2008
Police Officer Cross-examination	Forensic Blood and Urine Seminar	2008
New Trial Tactics for DUI and DWI Cases	Breaking Through to Not Guilty	2008
SCRAM Legal Update	15th Annual Mastering Scientific Evidence	2008
Preliminary Breath Testing, DataMaster and Alcohol Metabolism	Dearborn Bar Association	2007
Defending the Breath Test Case	Advanced Criminal Defense Practice	2007
Drunk Driving Law Update	2007 Bench/Bar Conference	2007
Law Office Management	DUI-DWI Seminar	2006
Panel Presentation - Validity of Breathalyzer and Michigan Case Law Update	Annual Member Conference	2006
Drunk Driving Defense Â Standardized Field Sobriety Testing	CAP	2005
Drug Recognition Testimony: Don't Let Your Client Get "Fryed" by an Unqualified Expert	Strategies in Handling OWI and OUID	2004
New Tips, Tricks and Trends in Drinking & Driving Litigation	Annual State of the Law Day	2004
Bottlenecking the Prosecution in a DUI Case: What Every Citizen Should Know if They are Pulled Over	Annual Member Conference	2004
Defending the Drunk Driving Case with Blood Intoxication Evidence	Issues in Defending OWI Cases	2003
Felony Driving Issues	CAP	2003
Alcohol and How it Effects the Body	Understanding the Mystery of Breath Testing

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