When you need a detailed and dedicated attorney.
Life-changing injuries, constitutional deprivations, and other types of complex litigation demand a proper command over the relevant facts and experience with the law. Zernhelt Law accepts a limited number of matters to provide the detailed investigation, disciplined record development, and strategic filings these cases require.
Serious Injury & Wrongful Death
We represent individuals and families confronting disabling harm, permanent injury, and death. Our work includes defective products and industrial machinery, third-party workplace liability, serious vehicle and premises cases, and select medical-negligence matters.
Insurers, corporations, and government agencies often control the earliest evidence and the opportunity to first recount what happened. We respond with the truth.
Our cases are built through early evidence preservation, identification of what is missing just as much as what is not, technical experts, careful identification of every responsible party, and proof of the full long-term harm, not merely the bills generated to date.
Civil Rights & Plaintiff-Side Litigation
We do not accept abuse from institutions that were born to serve.
Claims against government agencies and institutions frequently turn on evidence controlled by the defendant, short procedural deadlines, immunity defenses, and an inclination to litigate well beyond an initial denial. We are not deterred by these entangled technical battles and abuses of power. We bring the experience, judgment, and resolve needed to see cases through.
We handle police and governmental misconduct, constitutional claims, and public-records litigation, as well as complex civil cases involving substantial loss or organizational wrongdoing.
Criminal Defense
A charging document presents the government’s accusation; it does not establish what happened.
The record in a case begins long before trial. Decisions made during investigation, motions practice, and negotiations can control every outcome that follows. We critically digest the facts of every case, whether it be a misdemeanor or a life-sentence eligible felony, so to uphold your constitutional rights and fundamental freedoms.
Appeals, Post-Conviction Proceedings & Sentence Modifications
A verdict does not end a case.
There are a number of procedures that can reverse a civil verdict or criminal conviction, each shrouded in its own nuance. Appeals, petitions for post-conviction relief, motions to reopen, filings of actual-innocence, petitions for coram nobis, and sentence-modification requests all have different purposes, deadlines, standards, and limitations. Familiarity with these distinctions uplifts your chance of relief.
Challenging the outcome of a case requires more than simply finding something during trial that went wrong. Analysis must ask which errors remain legally reviewable, what evidence may be considered in different proceedings, what procedural vehicles for review are available, and what relief a reviewing court has authority to grant.
Select National Matters
Zernhelt Law serves as counsel in select civil and criminal litigation throughout the Country. We regularly accept the opportunity to lead or join litigation involving serious injuries and injustices, particularly when cases present an occasion to advance novel legal theories or confront unheeded constitutional doctrines. We approach our Country’s varied forums with comprehensive study and all due respect.
This representation has required intensive review of decades-old records, development of expert evidence, and command over complex constitutional and procedural questions. No matter where, our methodology remains the same: Intensive review of the case and fighting for what’s right.