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AV-rated attorney Deandra Grant is the Managing Partner of Hamilton Grant PC and is an international speaker on DWI law, science and trial skills.

A graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio with a degree in business (Finance) and Southern Methodist University’s School of Law, Grant went on to earn a Graduate Certificate in Forensic Toxicology from the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine and a Masters Degree in Pharmaceutical Science - Concentration in Forensic Science from the University of Florida’s College of Pharmacy in 2016. In 2019 Grant joined the faculty at Axion Analytical Labs as an Assistant Chromatography Instructor for the American Chemical Society. She also has served on the faculty of the Borkenstein Drug Course.

Grant is the co-author of the annually updated book, The Texas DWI Manual (James Publishing), Texas DWI: Truth & Consequences and Surviving Your Texas DWI. Grant is a Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Instructor and has completed the Drug Recognition Overview course. She was the first attorney in Texas to pass the Forensic Sobriety Assessment Certification exam. In addition, she has completed coursework in DWI forensic blood and urine testing and was trained as an operator and maintenance technician of the Intoxilyzer 5000. Deandra has certificates in Forensic Chromatography: Theory & Practice (2011 & 2015), Forensic Analysis of Solid Drugs (2014) and Forensic Principles of DUID (2015) issued by Axion Labs and the American Chemical Society. In 2015, Grant earned the distinction of being named an ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist.

Grant is a member of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Board Member 2011-2016), the Dallas Bar Association, the Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Board Member 2007-2019, Treasurer 2020, President-Elect 2021), the American Chemical Society and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. In addition, she is a Charter Member and President-Emeritus of the DUI Defense Lawyers Association.

D Magazine has named Grant to its list of Best Women Lawyers and Best Lawyers in Dallas. Fort Worth Magazine has named her a Top Lawyer in Fort Worth. She’s been named a “Texas Super Lawyer” for the past 10 years and one of Texas’ Top Rated Lawyers. Best Lawyers in Dallas named her one of the Top 10 DWI Lawyers in Dallas.

On a personal note, Grant is the Vice President of Living the Doxie Dream Rescue & Sanctuary in Royse City, Texas. She devotes much of her time to fundraising efforts for their rescue dogs. She has been married to Eric Clendenin for 19 years and is the proud mom of Keegan (18) and Rowan (13).

Joseph Hada is an attorney located in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Hada dedicates his practice to the defense of charges relating to OVI/DUI, Criminal and Traffic offenses. He is deeply rooted in Northeast Ohio and built a reputation as a strong advocate for his clients. 

Mr. Hada graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Heidelberg University and went on to receive his J.D. from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He began his career as a public defender in Lake County, Ohio, representing juveniles and adult defendants accused of all types of criminal offenses, including high-level felony trials, until transitioning into private practice in 2012.  

A member of many national and local professional associations that provide the best resources for DUI Defense, Mr. Hada has attended NHTSA DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing and Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement training as well as having completed training in the physiology, theory, and operation of infrared breath alcohol testing instruments. In 2018, he became a member of the American Chemical Society, specifically the Chemistry and the Law Division earned The ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist Designation.  In addition, in 2020, Mr. Hada became a Nationally Certified Phlebotomist.

Mr. Hada frequently presents at legal education seminars across the country on topics including DUI defense, criminal defense, and the use of technology in the legal field. He continues to research and pursue innovative defense strategies for his clients. Visit his website at www.hada-law.com. 

Attorney Donald Timothy (Tim) Huey is the founder and owner of Huey Defense Firm in Columbus, Ohio. Regarded as one of the leading criminal defense attorneys in the country, Mr. Huey provides unmatched counsel and support to clients throughout the greater Columbus metro region and all across central Ohio who stand accused of OVI/DUI or some other felony or misdemeanor offense.

Over the course of his legal career spanning more than 35 years, Mr. Huey has achieved a long record of securing successful outcomes for his clients both inside and outside of the courtroom. During the same time, he has become a recognized authority in DUI/OVI law and defense, and he is highly trained in breath testing, blood and urine testing, standardized field sobriety testing and drug recognition examination, as well as effective trial skills and advocacy involving OVI/DUI cases.

Using the extent of his in-depth legal knowledge and experience handling DUI cases, Mr. Huey has written extensively on the topics, and he has conducted lectures and continuing legal education seminars across the country on DUI law and related subjects. He has also served as president of the DUI Defense Lawyers Association as well as board member, faculty member and Justice Foundation trustee.

In addition, he has served as president of the Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as well as chairman of its DUI committee. He is also a sustaining member and Ohio delegate for the National College for DUI Defense.

Honored for his outstanding professionalism and service, Mr. Huey has earned consistent top rankings and endorsements from his peers as being among the top DUI attorneys in the nation. He has also received the Award of Excellence from DUI-Help.com along with 10 out of 10 client ratings on Avvo.

A 1981 graduate of The Ohio State University, Mr. Huey obtained his Juris Doctor from Capital University Law School in 1984.

Attorney McShane is a trial attorney who specializes in using forensic science in defending citizens amongst us who have been accused of a crime by the Government. He is nationally known and well regarded for being a skilled and fierce litigator, but is also well known for his strong understanding and in-depth knowledge in all forms of forensic science. He earned the American Chemical Society-Chemistry and the Law Division (ACS-CHAL) designation as Forensic Lawyer Scientist (The first attorney in the United States to be designated as such). He has earned Board Certification both in DUI Defense Law by the National College for DUI Defense (NCDD) (the first and only Pennsylvania Lawyer to do so and also was the youngest person in the United States ever to be so certified) and as a Criminal Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Approved Agency.

He has also earned certification in Forensic Sobriety Assessment, the first attorney to do so in the nation. He is a Sustaining Member, and was the State Delegate National Coordinator with the NCDD. He is the 2012 NCDD Dean’s Award recipient. He received the 2012 Pennsylvania Association for Drunk Driving Defense Attorneys (PADDDA) Outstanding Achievement Award. He is a charter member of DUI Defense Lawyers Association (DUIDLA). He was the Founding Treasurer of the Board of Trustees for the DUI Defense Lawyers Association Justice Foundation (DUIDLAJF). He was named to the faculty of the Indiana University Center for Studies of Law in Action Borkenstein Drug Course in 2014 and remains on faculty today. He has been accepted as a non-retained expert witness in federal court (the Middle District of Pennsylvania) as an expert in DUI investigation and defense as well as in the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and chemical testing.

He is a frequent invited guest lecturer at international, national, state and local seminars that are attended by prosecutors, police, investigators, lawyers, judges, academics, scientists, machine manufacturers, and policy-makers. He has lectured at the American Chemical Society (ACS) National meeting nine times and has presented four times at the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 American Academy for Forensic Science (AAFS) national meetings. He was named a Fellow with both the American Institute of Chemists (AIC) and the AAFS. The ACS has named him a Senior Assistant Chromatography Instructor. He serves as the co-chairman of the Forensic Science section of the ACS-Chemistry and the Law (CHAL) Division, and is the Chairman of the CHAL division. He has been selected annually as a SuperLawyer. He is the Chairman/CEO of The McShane Firm, LLC, an eight attorney criminal defense and DUI law firm. He maintains three blogs:

www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com,

www.PADUIBlog.com ,

and www.PennLAGO.com

Dr. Lee N. Polite is the president and founder of Axion Analytical Labs, Inc. Since its inception in 1995, Axion has provided in-depth chromatography training to every major pharmaceutical, chemical, and petroleum company in the US. Lee has been teaching chromatography to professionals for more than 30 years. He has been invited to lecture on the topic in 17 countries and has trained more than 8000 professionals. Axion’s Chicago training facility is equipped with 8 modern HPLCs and 16 state of the art GCs all dedicated to Axion’s hands-on training courses.

Dr. Polite earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry (Chromatography) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) where he worked under the direction of Professor Harold McNair. Dr. McNair is recognized as one of the premier chromatography professors in the world and one of the pioneers in the field.

In addition to his technical degrees, Lee holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management where he majored in both strategy and marketing. Throughout his four years at Kellogg, it was ranked as the top business school in the US. Prior to receiving his advanced degrees, Dr. Polite received his Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) in Chemistry from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he was a Rector Scholar and a member of Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics honor society) and Sigma Xi (Chemistry honor society).

After receiving his PhD, Lee spent 9 years with Amoco Corporation holding a variety of scientific and management positions including Research Scientist, HPLC Team Leader, Group Leader of Environmental Analysis, and Laboratory Supervisor of one of the largest refinery labs in the US.

Dr. Polite is a recognized authority in the field of chemistry demonstrated by the fact that he has taught chromatography courses for more than 30 years to a variety of professionals in 17 countries. He is the professor in charge of the popular American Chemical Society’s “Fundamentals of HPLC Course” and “Practical and Applied Gas Chromatography Course.” His company (Axion Analytical Labs, Inc) is the sole supplier of hands-on chromatography courses to the ACS and its 165,000 members. He has served as chromatography instructor for the DEA, United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), the New York City Police Department’s crime laboratory, DOE’s Argonne National Labs, Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies, Phenomenex, along with pharmaceutical, petroleum, chemical, and environmental companies throughout the world. Dr. Polite has authored countless professional course books on chromatography, a number of publications, and three book chapters on Chromatography.

Dr. Polite also founded the renewable energy company, “Helios Scientific, LLC”, where he helped to develop “sunburst” technology. Sunburst facilitates the economical production of clean burning ethanol from a wide variety of waste plant material. This technology will help to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the world. Helios Scientific, LLC was acquired by Sweetwater Energy, Inc. in 2015. Dr. Polite now serves as the Chief Scientific Officer of Sweetwater Energy, Inc., where he will help direct the building and startup of one of the world’s first cellulosic ethanol plants.

After bartending her way across Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Angela found herself in over her head with a drinking problem that was relentless. She moved to Kansas City thinking leaving LA may help her drinking problem, only to learn that geography wasn’t the issue. 

Alcoholism had a firm grasp, and was unwilling to let go. Back in KC, her drinking was worse than ever, and so were the consequences. 

Outpatient treatment, jail, and one devastating car accident later, Angela was face to face with her demons and had to make a choice. 

As a result of her own sobriety, she dedicated her life to helping others through coaching and education.

Angela has amassed years of extensive personal study in NLP, motivational interviewing, neurobiology of addiction, trauma healing, intervention, coaching, and much more. 

She founded Kansas City Recovery, an innovative Sober Living environment providing safe and clean family-style living for men to transition from inpatient treatment back to day-to-day life with accountability and support.  Kansas City Recovery was honored with the Small Business Excellence Award in Overland Park.

She is a Master Coach, host of the nationally-ranked Addiction Unlimited Podcast, national speaker, and entrepreneur.

Pugh is also a noted freelance writer on coaching, relationships, and addiction education, and a sought-after speaker and educator on the same topics. She is a regular source on addiction and recovery for news media outlets nationwide. She resides in the Kansas City area with her dog, Henry, aka “The Boss”.

Chuck Rathburn is a nationally recognized attorney, expert witness and speaker who focuses his practice on OWI (DUI) defense in the State of Indiana. Few attorneys have his training in blood and breath testing, SFSTs, ARIDE, and DRE. In addition, he is a certified phlebotomist. Chuck has been recognized as an expert by trial and appellate courts in nine states in these areas of law and science. He was a public defender early in his career in Fulton County, Indiana, and gives his time to public defenders to increase their trial skills.

Adam D. Stolte is a Kansas criminal defense attorney in the Johnson County, Kansas area who currently represents people in municipal, state, and appellate courts. Adam is NHTSA qualified for SFST and ARIDE. He is currently Amicus chair for the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is on the National College for DUI Defense’s Amicus and Research Committee. Adam received the NCDD Appellate Advocate of the Year award in 2019.