Our mission statements and values include:

• Professional service with a personalized team approach:
  • We learn everything about your case, the circumstances surrounding it, and how you got into the situation you are facing whether it is because of something that occurred during your childhood, a traumatic experience, or substance abuse. In some cases, we may recommend treatment or certain rehabilitation programs that will be beneficial to both your legal and your personal life. For example, in a DUI case we may recommend an alcohol and drug assessment, victim impact panel, or DUI school. The alcohol and drug assessment is a meeting with a therapist who specializes in recognizing substance abuse. As a specialist, the therapist can recommend treatment or write a letter concluding that there is no substance abuse issue which helps relieve the prosecutor’s concern that you may commit DUI again in the future.

• Teamwork makes (our clients’) dreams work:
  • All our attorneys and staff work together as a collective team to provide each client with the highest quality criminal defense representation through our aggressiveness and negotiation skills. This means unlike other law firms that may only have 1 lawyer defend your case, multiple of our attorneys, plus our staff and potentially a private investigator in some cases, will listen to any 911 calls, review the dash camera and/or body camera footage, research applicable law for your defense, and meet to discuss the best strategy to surpass your expectations in retaining representation.
  • We believe that power in numbers is true when it comes to your criminal case. We provide a team approach because we believe that having multiple of our highly trained attorneys, rather than just 1 attorney, provides you the best chance at obtaining the best outcome possible in your case either through a dismissal or a reduction in the charges against you.

• Results Driven to Win Your Case:
  • Our longstanding success as a law firm is attributed to our results driven mentality. Our attorneys are competitive and that competitive nature results in our attorneys fighting for your rights and your freedom through the drive to do everything possible to defend you and make your situation as good as possible under the circumstances.

• People not criminals:
  • You are more than the mugshot photo taken of you at booking. Regardless of the allegations against you, you are not a criminal but a person who needs our help to increase the likelihood of a successful future. A person with real-life experiences that may have put you in your current situation. But also, a person who can learn from this tragic and unfortunate situation through the advocacy of the lawyers at Barnes & Fersten fighting for you.

• Protect our House (Firm)/Family First:
  • We do everything we can for our people whether it is our clients, our attorneys, or our staff. We view our law firm as a small family that grows day by day through establishing new professional and personal relationships with our clients. Just like you would do anything for your parents or siblings, we will do anything and everything for the people in “our house” or firm.
  • We treat our clients with the same kindness, respect, and even tough love that they would if it was a family member. Tough love means not necessarily telling you what you want to hear throughout your case but what you need to hear to make an educated and informed decision. There is no benefit to hiring a lawyer who will make false promises to you. You need to understand what you are up against to make the best decision for your future.
  • People have difficulty trusting individuals outside of their family, especially with their secrets and discussing childhood or adult hardships. We create real connections and relationships with each of our clients, so they can trust us with those secrets, and open up to us about their life hardships to provide us with the knowledge we need to provide the highest quality representation.
  • We believe it is because of this value that we have won awards as a 5-star DUI and criminal defense law firm. Our client reviews are proof where our clients routinely let us know they feel like we became part of their family through our representation and empathetic approach where we truly care about each of our clients.