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Houston Criminal Defense Lawyers

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We, Mark and Jennifer Bennett, are a husband-and-wife team of criminal defense lawyers representing people charged with serious crimes—misdemeanors (including DUI/DWI) and felonies—in state and federal courts in Texas and across the U.S.The Houston Chronicle describes Mark as a "philosopher/criminal defense attorney." He is rated 10.0/10 by Avvo.com and peer reviewed AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. He was named one of the top criminal lawyers in Houston in 2004 by HTexas Magazine. He is also the immediate past-president of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association. He is, however, most proud of the many great reviews he gets from clients who he has helped with their criminal cases.

Our principal office is near downtown in Houston, Harris County, Texas—the fourth-biggest city in the U.S.

We have represented people successfully on cases from shoplifting to murder, including many driving while intoxicated (DWI, known elsewhere as DUI) and drug conspiracy cases, and white-collar cases in Texas state courts and federal courts nationwide. This site includes a listing of some of the cases we have won.

On these pages, you will find information about criminal law generally and about specific types of crimes ("Cases" in the navigation bar above).

You will also learn about us, including our training, experience, and qualifications, as well as our philosophy of defending criminal cases ("Lawyers" in the navigation bar). We are producing Legal First Aid sheets telling you what to do in certain criminal-defense related situations. So far we've written Legal First Aid -- DWI Edition, Legal First Aid -- Search Warrant Edition, and Legal First Aid -- Arrest Edition. You will, we hope, read our Million-Dollar Legal Advice. The cops heed our million-dollar advice (see the blog post); you should too. A well-educated consumer is more likely to hire us, so we've tried to make this site as informative as possible. If you'd like to contact us about anything on the site, if you have any questions that we haven't answered here, or if you want to discuss the possibility of retaining us to defend a criminal case, our contact information -- email, fax, telephone, and physical address -- is a click away ("Contact" in the navigation bar). Please bookmark us! Also, check out Mark's blog, some recent posts from which are to the right.

Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1970. He grew up overseas (in New Delhi, India and Bangkok, Thailand) and in the Washington, D.C. area. After graduating from the American Embassy School in New Delhi, he moved to Houston to study...