DUI? Protect Your License. Start Your Defense.

A DUI arrest can trigger time-sensitive driver’s-license consequences in addition to the criminal charge. Call now for a prompt review of the evidence and your next steps.

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DUI Defense Experience

  • 15 years practicing law

  • 15 years in law enforcement

  • Direct experience conducting DUI investigations and managing a DUI enforcement program

  • Formal Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) training

  • Formal evidentiary breath-testing and Intoxilyzer training

  • DUI trial experience

  • Substantial administrative driver’s-license hearing experience

Call (941) 313-2559 to request a DUI case review.

Lakewood Ranch Law represents people facing DUI charges and related driver’s-license consequences throughout Manatee, Sarasota, and DeSoto counties. A DUI arrest is not the same as a conviction. The state must prove its case with admissible, reliable evidence. The defense should examine every stage: the reason for the stop, officer observations, field sobriety testing, body and patrol video, statements, breath or blood testing, and the handling of the case after arrest.

Protect Your License

The criminal case and administrative license matter can proceed on different tracks, and prompt review can help identify immediate deadlines and available options.

Review Driver’s License Suspension & Restoration Options

Evidence We Examine

  • The lawful basis for the stop or encounter

  • The sequence and reliability of impairment observations

  • Instructions, conditions, administration, performance, and recording of field sobriety tests

  • Breath, blood, or urine procedures and records

  • Body-camera, patrol, dispatch, witness, and location evidence

  • Statements, implied-consent issues, and alleged refusal

  • Medical conditions, fatigue, injury, footwear, road, weather, and lighting

  • The relationship between the criminal case and administrative license action

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Sobriety & Chemical Tests

Performance on standardized field sobriety tests and chemical-test results must be evaluated in context. Instructions, administration, environmental conditions, equipment records, timing, observation periods, and the complete video record can matter.

The First Review

Early review helps identify deadlines, preserve video and records, and coordinate the criminal and driver’s-license tracks. Contact Lakewood Ranch Law to request a review of the arrest, testing process, and immediate next steps.

Repeat DUI Charges

When a person has a prior DUI conviction, another DUI prosecution can bring greater potential consequences—including increased fines, mandatory incarceration in some circumstances, longer driver’s-license revocation, ignition-interlock requirements, and, depending on the number and timing of prior convictions, felony exposure.

A thorough defense should examine the new stop, arrest, video, statements, and chemical-testing evidence, as well as the records and timing of any prior DUI convictions the State intends to rely on. Lakewood Ranch Law approaches these cases as both an evidence problem and a sentencing-and-license problem.

What to Expect

Initial contact — We collect basic information and screen for conflicts.

Attorney review — Dan reviews the arrest, immediate deadlines, and the criminal and driver’s-license issues.

Clear next steps — You receive an explanation of the immediate options and what representation would involve.

DUI FAQs

  • Preserve every document you received, avoid discussing the case publicly, and have both the criminal charge and any driver’s-license action reviewed promptly.

  • It can be. Administrative license consequences may proceed on a separate track with their own procedures and deadlines.

  • Yes. The defense may examine the instructions, conditions, administration, equipment and records, timing, and the complete video and documentary evidence.

  • Prior DUI convictions can increase the potential penalties and license consequences. The number, timing, and records of prior convictions should be reviewed carefully.

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Call (941) 313-2559 or send a brief message using the form below. Please do not include confidential information before a conflicts check.

Prompt review can help protect available options.

Call (941) 313-2559