Mr. Katz is a gifted defense attorney. He has my highest recommendation to be your defense attorney. He represented me twice, in VA and MD courts, twice for charges with more than a year jail time possible, and obtained better than I expected results. He lived up to his reputation (according to m...y former attorney who recommended him) as the go-to lawyer for difficult cases. The first time it might have been luck or a lenient court, but the second time he also obtained superior results. He works hard, pays meticulous attention to the details to prepares his arguments well covering all the bases with what he has. Possibly more important is that he thinks very fast on his feet, and has a smooth, compelling, charismatic court presence. Based on more than 15 years of daily work experience with (and for, in several instances) many lawyers at all levels - including top grads from top schools, top clerks at all levels, work on my cases with several defense attorneys, and personal acquaintances with lawyers at all levels, he is on par with the best in the legal profession, and heads and shoulders above his peers.

Back in June I was pulled over for DWI in Fairfax, then the next day after my arrest I was pulled over and was given a ticket to show up in Arlington since I was driving on a suspended license due to the DWI the night before, I didn't know it was suspended for 7 days, so now I had two court dates to ...go to, one for DWI and one for driving on a suspended license. It was a mess, I started calling around for a good attorney, I called some and visited one and I just didn’t feel right about them and they were pushy, then luckily I found this site and I read Jon's reviews, at first I thought maybe the reviews were posted by his friends or people working for him since he had a perfect score on the site. So I did some research on him and decided to make an appointment with him. I went to his office in Tysons and once I sat down with him, I felt at ease and his sense of humor made me more relax about my situation. So I decide to hire him, he is more expensive than others but what he did for me I doubt no other lawyers could have done. The case in Arlington, where I was looking at 3 months suspension of my license and possibly a week or two in jail, this could have been the deal breaker for me, l could have lost my job. He went to court and went to battle, prosecutor didn’t want to give any deal so he told him then we will go to trail, as we were getting ready for trial, the prosecutor came decided to give us a deal, a weekend in jail and 30 days suspension of my license, we agreed to it but Jon noticed there was an error and went back to the prosecutor and he came back with an even better deal, 7 days suspension and a weekend in jail so I didn’t have to miss work. It was a lot better than 90 days suspension and 1 or 2 weeks in jail! The court in Fairfax, I was looking at 1 year restricted license plus having DWI showing on my record. The prosecutor didn’t want to bargain so we went to trial with this one, once again he went in and just nailed the prosecutor and the cop and we came out with only 30 days restricted license and reckless instead of DWI. Jon had the prosecutor and the Judge figured out even before we went to trial, I was a little nervous but I knew I was in good hands since I already seen what he did in Arlington. I do remember Jon telling me while we were sitting outside the court in Fairfax, when I first came to his office with both of my cases he was close to now taking on the cases since my case was a wimpy one and it wasn’t really a challenge for him and now I know why. The guy is a magician in the court room with a great sense of humor! I’m never going to get myself in the situation I got myself into, but if I ever do I know I will be calling Jon, I will also be recommending him to anyone that has a similar situation as me.

Jon did an awesome job for me!! my case was simple DUI but my situation was so complicated. I am not American, got arrested during a short visit here in D.C, missed my court dates since I couldn't stay longer for my first court appearance because I was scheduled to return to my home country. So I en...ded up completely missing my court dates and was unable to return to the U.S. It was such a complicated situation for me and I didn't know how to fix everything, so I started to look for a lawyer. First thing that lead me to Jon is that he speaks more than one language. At first he seemed a little unsympathetic to me, but I realized he was only being objective and looking at my situation how the court would look at me. So there was no misunderstanding on my end of what I was dealing with, which could have had a very bad ending for me. Jon introduced me to another immigration lawyer that handled me being able to get back to the u.s. without being stopped at customs and going to jail. Than once I was here, Jon scheduled all of my court hearings and used all of the advantages possible to help with my case. He made sure the court treated me fairly and that they fulfilled all of there responsibilities to me as a defendant without any hardship for me. He knows how to exploit any holes in the case the prosecutor has, and also knows how to take your situation to higher levels of appeal or put in requests that are above the courts level. For the most part the court never wants to mess with the paperwork, so it helps get what we want to happen to benefit me. He even picked me up and dropped me off at my house one time for one of the court hearings because had transportation problems. It was nice not having to coordinate all of the aspects of my case after I retained Jon. He even got a court appointed interpreter for me free of charge even though my English is good. But it helped cause than I didn't have to talk much, and they left all the questions to Jon. So to put a long story short, I had a warrant for my arrest for failure to appear, A DUI charge, and i was looking at a possible year in jail, alcohol program classes, and many fines. After Jon's help, I was given no jail time, no alcohol classes, my warrant was dismissed, and I only had to pay less than $600 fine and 3 years unsupervised probation. Before Having Jon as my lawyer, I was overwhelmed and felt like I was stuck in a black box trying to find my way out. He helped me get out of that situation so I could move on with my life!!! Thanks again Jon.. you have no idea how much I appreciate everything you did for me.

I first found out about Jon Katz through a google search for lawyers near Maryland. I came across his website, checked out his blog, and looked at his AVVO reviews. I was a bit skeptical that it seemed like everyone in here was giving him an extremely high rating. I made an appointment with him, felt... comfortable and decided to hire him for my possession of marijuana charge. I have major depression and generalized anxiety disorders and was using marijuana for self medication. I had always thought that the medical marijuana defense legislation from 2003 was only for people with certain conditions but Jon made it clear that persuing a sentence for my mood disorders was possible; something that i feel that other lawyers wouldn't be willing to do. There were times where i questioned doing this because i was afraid that the outcome wouldn't be pretty, but Jon kept my spirit up and gave me the confidence that it could be done. He can be tough at times, and he will have you doing everything that you can possibly do to prepare for court, but trust me you want to do everything you can possibly do to show the judge that you have remorse for your actions, and that you are taking the situation seriously. Jon responded to my e-mails, he has a very good assistant that is patient and willing to help, and i was able to schedule a meeting with him everytime i tried within a week of when i called. He is very personable and understanding but at the same time will let you know if you are doing something wrong for your own good (kind of a tough love). The day of my court date he negotiated hard with the prosecuter, kept me calm, discussed my options with me, and we ended up getting what i wanted which was the medical marijuana sentence. He was indeed "calm in the eye of the storm" and articulated my situation to the judge in a very intelligent and intuitive manner. After court he notified of a new legislation that is waiting to be signed that allows medical marijuana patients in maryland who provide sufficient proof that their use was medically neccessary to be found not guilty. He expressed a possibility that this could apply to me if the ammenment was retroactive somehow so i am going to research and try to figure out if it could apply to my case (the previous legislation from 2003 allowed me to get the charge on my record and the new one says i am not guilty). If i do figure something out and am going to try to get it corrected I am going to contact Jon Katz to represent me again. Thanks Jon,