DUI & Criminal Defense
Driver’s License Suspension & Restoration · Manatee, Sarasota & DeSoto Counties
Experience That Matters
An arrest, license suspension, or criminal investigation can put your freedom, work, reputation, and ability to drive at risk. Lakewood Ranch Law provides direct, evidence-focused defense for DUI, driver’s-license, fraud, and serious drug matters throughout Manatee, Sarasota, and DeSoto counties.
Attorney Dan Hassinger brings 15 years of legal practice and 15 years of prior law-enforcement experience. His law-enforcement career included several years as an undercover detective, years investigating fraud and financial crimes, direct DUI investigations, management of a DUI enforcement program, and formal training in standardized field sobriety testing and evidentiary breath testing. His legal experience includes years of trial work defending DUI charges and serious felony cases.
DUI Defense
A DUI case can involve two separate problems: the criminal charge and the consequences for your driver's license. The defense begins with the stop, field sobriety tests, chemical testing, video, and the procedures used to collect evidence.
Driver's License Suspension & Restoration
License consequences can move on a different schedule from the criminal case. We help clients evaluate administrative suspensions, revocations, hardship options, and restoration issues before avoidable deadlines pass.
Serious Criminal Defense
Fraud, economic-crime, trafficking, and serious drug allegations require careful control of evidence, communications, financial records, digital material, and collateral exposure—often before charges are filed.
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Fraud & Economic Crime Defense
State fraud and economic-crime cases can turn on financial records, digital evidence, intent, witness credibility, and how the investigation was conducted. Early review can help control communications and preserve important evidence.
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Drug Trafficking & Serious Drug Defense
Trafficking and serious drug cases may depend on search-and-seizure issues, informant evidence, laboratory records, communications, quantity, and intent. The defense should test every link in the State’s proof.