John Joseph Fahle

John Fahle graduated summa cum laude from Texas Tech University in 1987. He went on to attend The University of Texas School of Law, one of the top ten law schools in the United States, where he was Student Notes Editor of the American Journal of Criminal Law, as well as a member of the board of Texas Law Fellowships, a non-profit organization that raises money for and provides grants to law students who wish to clerk in public interest firms during their summer clerkships.

After graduating with honors in the top ten percent of his class from UT Law School in 1991, Mr. Fahle was widely recruited by prestigious civil and criminal law firms around the country. He began his law career with Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley in San Antonio, one of the nation s premier state and federal criminal defense firms. There, he learned at the feet of some of the finest minds in modern criminal defense, trying cases and appeals with Richard Racehorse Haynes, Oscar Goodman, Louis Sirkin, Ron Sinoway, Doug Tinker, and of course his mentor, Gerry Goldstein, among many others.

After two years with GG&H, Fahle set out on his own. In solo practice and sometimes with partners, he quickly became established as one of San Antonio s sharpest criminal defense trial attorneys. His services were immediately in demand around the Southwest, from Texas to Utah, Idaho to Nebraska, in state and federal court, at both the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Fahle has tried numerous capital cases in Texas, and was hired to defend the first death penalty trial in Wyoming since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated by the United States Supreme Court in Gregg v. Georgia. He has also tried many federal white collar cases, large scale drug cases, and RICO cases.

Fahle is just as at home, however, trying a DWI as a capital murder, and approaches both with the same intensity. He often says that trying a DWI is just as difficult as trying a murder, it s just shorter. But he understands that to the Client, the stakes can be just as life changing, and he therefore approaches each case as a personal challenge. He uses the full toolkit of criminal defense tools including fact investigators, expert witnesses, psychiatric consultants, jury consultants, and more as appropriate to each case, from the lowest misdemeanor to the most serious of charges. His goal is not to hold the client s hand through a cookie-cutter plea bargain process, but rather to explore every possible avenue to win the case and, failing that, to achieve the best possible outcome for his Client.