Laurence H. Margolis, Esq.

Larry is the owner and managing partner of a litigation law firm located in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prior to starting his own firm, Larry was a partner in Smith, White, Sharma & Halpern, a general litigation law firm located in Atlanta, Georgia, where he clerked while at Emory Law. After law school, Larry was hired as an associate at the firm, and soon rose to be a partner. As lead or co-counsel in dozens of civil and criminal trials, Larry soon focused his practice in the areas of criminal defense, personal injury, and immigration-related deportation or criminal cases. In the fall of 2007, Larry relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan, his original hometown, and he has continued to generate a record of success for his clients.

Practicing law since 1996, Larry has developed a broad reserve of experience in the following areas:

• Criminal Defense: Trial and Post Conviction Relief
• ICE Deportation Defense: Crimmigration
• Serious Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
• General Civil Litigation: Property disputes, Business, Governmental Liability, Torts

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Education

• Emory University School of Law (Juris Doctorate, Dec. 1995)
  – Emory Trial Advocacy Program (Graduate of National Institute of Trial Advocacy, or NITA)
  – Clinical Work: Southern Center For Human Rights, Prisoner Rights & Death Penalty Litigation
  – Laws Mentor
• Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (B.A., 1990)

Court Associations

• State Bar of Michigan (2006)
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
• Supreme Court of the State of Michigan
• Board of Immigration Appeals
• Federal Court of Claims
• State Bar of Georgia (1996)
• United States District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia
• Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia
• Supreme Court of the State of Georgia

Professional Memberships

• Washtenaw County Bar Association
• State Bar of Michigan
• Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan (CDAM)
• Michigan Association for Justice (former Michigan Trial Lawyers Association)
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Publications

• Contributing Author, Chapter: Post Conviction Relief and Expungement, Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction, Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE)(2012)
  
• Criminal Immigration: Is His Plea Going to Make My Guy Deportable? A Short Admonition to the Defense Bar, Res Ipsa Loquitor  (2007)