- Biography
- Awards
- Work Experience
READY FOR TRIAL! Board Certified in Criminal Law, AV-rated. My firm has tried over 650 jury trials!
Board Certified in Criminal Law, AV Rated, tried over 100 jury trials and a published author, I wrote the book on DWI and Criminal law defense. Before you talk to ANY lawyer get a copy of my DWI Survival Guide, A Citizen’s Protection Manual for a DWI Arrest. While other lawyers “advertise” experience I will show you how my trial experience of over 100 trials can help in your case.
Because my practice focuses on DWI defense and criminal law, I often speak and lecture to other lawyers about how to try a DWI case. Local media in cases and issues involving DWI or other intoxication issues has interviewed me.
My goal is to focus on each case that I take and provide personal client attention. I try more cases in a year than most criminal lawyers try in ten years and I believe that is for several reasons. First, I like my clients. If I can help them in their time of stress I want to do whatever I can. Second, I like trials. I enjoy the stress that comes with being in trial. I believe that when I walk in that courtroom, as arrogant as this might sound, I am in charge and the goal is to help my client.
- AV Preeminent
- Martindale-Hubbell
- 2013-2018
- Best of the West- Criminal Defense Attorney
- KCBD
- 2017
- Texas’ Top Lawyers
- Top Lawyers of Texas
- 2013-2016
- Nation’s Top One Percent-2015
- National Association of Distinguished Counsel
- 2015
- Fellow Award
- College of the State Bar of Texas
- 2010, 2013-2015
- Client Distinction Award
- Martindale-Hubbell
- 2013-2015
- Superb Rated Attorney
- Avvo
- 2008-2015
- Top Rated Lawyer Appellate
- Martindale-Hubbell
- 2015
- Certificate of Membership
- Criminal Trial Lawyers Association
- 2014
- Forensic Principles of DUID I
- Axion Training Institute
- 2014
- Forensic Drug Analysis II Course Completion
- Axion Training Institute Certificate of Recognition
- 2013
- 15 Year Anniversary Service Award
- Martindale-Hubbell
- 2013
- Certificate of completion of DNA analysis
- Dr. Hampikian DNA Class
- 2013
- Course Director- Defending A DWI with Breath/Blood Evidence
- International Legal & Forensic Science Services Inc.
- 2013
- IACP Field Sobriety Testing Practitioner Class
- Platt & Associates
- 2013
- Certificate of Excellence- Fundamentals of Gas Chromatography
- Shimadzue Lab Certificate of Excellence
- 2012
- Intoxilyzer 5000 One Day Boot Camp Completion
- International Legal & Forensic Science Services, Inc.
- 2012
- Certificate of Completion
- The Scientific Truth About HS-GC-FID & Pharmacology of Etoh, Marijuana, & Benzodiazepines
- 2011
- Membership
- American Chemical Society
- 2011
- Certificate of Completion
- Mastering Scientific Evidence in DWI/DUI Cases
- 2011
- Board Certification in Criminal Law- 5 year recertification
- Texas Board of Legal Specialization
- 2010
- Certificate of Completion
- Dr. Paul Homoly Communication
- 2010
- Gas Chromatography: Fundamentals and Troubleshooting
- American Chemical Society
- 2009
- Certificate of Completion Forensic Blood/Urine Seminar
- Headline Marketing Corporation
- 2008
- Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Behavioral Perspectives
- Steve Rubenzer, Ph.D., ABPP –Diplomate in Forensic Psychology
- 2007
- Graduate of NCDD Summer School-Harvard
- National College for DUI Defense
- 2007
- Board Certification in Criminal Law
- Texas Board of Legal Specialization
- 2005
- Instructor Qualification for Intoxilyzer 5000
- C.E.S. Consulting
- 2004
- Mastering Scientific Evidence in DUI Case
- NCDD
- 2003
- Borkenstein Class on Alcohol and Highway Safety
- Indiana University Center for Studies of Law in Action
- 2003
- Maintenance Course Intoxilyzer 5000 Breath Test Instrument
- C.E.S. Consulting, Inc.
- 2003
- Operator Course Intoxilyzer 5000 Breath Test Instrument
- C.E.S. Consulting, Inc.
- 2003
- Mastering Scientific Evidence in DUI/DWI Cases
- NCDD
- 2002
- Student Course Completion of Standardized Field Sobriety Testing
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration via LaPier & Associates
- 2001
- Certificate of Recognition
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- 2000
- Partner
- HamiltonGrant Attorneys at Law, Statewide Texas DWI and Criminal Defense practice
- 2013 – Present
- Lead DWI Trial Attorney
- Stephen L. Hamilton, P.C.
- 2009 – Present
- Partner and Trial Attorney
- Boatwright & Hamilton, P.C.
- 1999 – 2009
- Attorney at Law
- King & Gregory, PLLC
- 1998 – 1999
