Corey Maxwell Cagle

Legend has it that Corey Cagle was born and raised by wolves in the backwoods of Kentucky. They say his feral childhood instilled in him an intense love for human freedom which has been his lodestar for his entire life. Some say that being raised by wolves is the source of his power; others say it’s his beard. All anyone knows for sure is that he is irresistible to animals, babies, and juries—and a powerful irritant to authority figures.

In 2003, the desire to protect human freedom led Corey to join the United States Marine Corps. As a member of America’s most fearsome fighting force, he learned and honed a host of invaluable skills: how to fight, how to survive, how to take lives and save them, how to obey orders and give them, how to overthrow governments and put down insurrections, how to repair everything from rifles to 7-ton trucks, how to order beer in several languages, and how to exercise through a hangover. After four years of worldwide service that took him to eight countries on three continents and included multiple deployments to combat zones, Corey’s active-duty service in the Marine Corps ended and he returned home.

Upon returning to the land of bourbon and bluegrass, Corey enrolled at the University of Louisville where he studied political science and economics. While at UofL, he met and married his wife, won awards for outstanding scholarship, and graduated with honors, having attained a Bachelor of Science degree. He then moved to Texas to start a family and attend law school.

Corey went to the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas, where he took an immediate interest in criminal law. In addition to taking every criminal law-related course available, Corey also served as a student-attorney and then as a chief student-attorney at the SMU Criminal Justice Clinic. At the clinic, Corey practiced under the tutelage of experienced, aggressive defense attorneys, representing indigent defendants accused of misdemeanor offenses in Dallas County.

After graduating cum laude from SMU, Corey worked as a prosecutor in Wichita and Brazos counties—a job for which he would have been the proverbial square peg in a round hole, except it was the other guys who were square. This uncharacteristic excursion into prosecution was relatively short-lived, however; Corey soon returned to where he belongs, fighting for human freedom, though on a different battlefield and against opponents far more dangerous to Americans’ most fundamental liberties.

In his time practicing criminal law, Corey has prosecuted or defended a wide variety of criminal offenses, from simple drug possession and DWI to felony domestic violence and organized crime cases. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, but he is deadly serious about protecting the natural-born, constitutionally-guaranteed rights of all people. If you have a problem; if no one else can help; and if you can find him, maybe you can hire Corey Cagle.