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Nichols Lawyers are LEADERS in Drunk Driving Defense

WE LITERALLY WROTE THE BOOK ON DRUNK DRIVING DEFENSE IN MICHIGAN: Mike Nichols is one of the top OWI-DUI-OUIL experts in Michigan, who others turn to for help when it comes to the defense of drunk driving charges. Mike Nichols is the author of the Michigan OWI Handbook for West Publishing, an adjunct professor of dui law and practice at Cooley Law School in Lansing and a frequent teacher of other lawyers on the law and the science involved in criminal cases, especially those involving charges of drugged and drunk driving. Mike Nichols will speak around the country in 2012 on “measurement uncertainty” in blood/breath testing. There are many lawyers who dabble in drunk driving defense. Mike Nichols is a leader and an expert. If you need someone to turn over every stone for you: you came to the right place.

Wendy Schiller-Nichols is an expert personal injury attorney who has demonstrated results in the area of traumatic brain injury. Ms. Schiller-Nichols has settled cases in excess of 1 million dollars on behalf of her clients. “I take cases when I believe in the client and I fight for every dollar and everything that I can do to protect my client and his or her future,” says Wendy Schiller-Nichols. An East Lansing attorney for her entire career, Ms. Schiller-Nichols has spent hundreds of hours, reading and writing about traumatic brain injury, the economics of damages and turning loss into healing. You will find elsewhere on this web-site examples of her case results, legal articles and news reports about how to cope with traumatic brain injury and the options for you when it comes to recovery.

 

Do the Medicines You Take Criminalize Your Driving?

Specially-trained police officers called "drug recognition experts" or "DREs" are spreading across Michigan.  These officers are trained on a 12-step evaluation and use a matrix to diagnose what drugs are "impairing" you - even if your doctor prescribed the drugs to you and medically-cleared you for driving.  Did you know that no peer-reviewed scientific study validated the DRE protocol?  The only step in the DRE examination that is beneficial in a prosecution for OWI/Controlled Substances is the statement from you about what medications you are taking.  Never tell an officer what medications you are taking. The DRE validation studies show that an officer’s ability to accurately predict what a person has taken in terms of medication is less than 50/50 unless the person tells him. If you are arrested for operating while under the influence of your medications, it is important for you to have an attorney who is not afraid of this junk science and is willing to combat the officer's claims in court.  Mike Nichols is that attorney.  Mike Nichols is trained on the DRE protocol and helped train other lawyers as well.  If you are charged with Operating While Under the Influence of Medications, contact DRE warrior Mike Nichols at mnichols@nicholslaw.net.

Personal Injury / Traumatic Brain Injury Experts

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is one of the most frightening and serious forms of injury. The brain is the main organ that makes it possible for us to think, communicate, act, behave, move about and be creative.  If you experience a brain injury, the primary injury is caused by the initial blow to the head.  The secondary injury happens when your brain experiences compression, bruising, swelling and bleeding.   Telling your story and helping you get your life back is what Michigan Personal Injury Attorney Wendy Schiller-Nichols focuses on for you. Traumatic brain injury is often the most challenging type of injury to prove because, unlike other injuries such as a fractured bone or herniated disc, you cannot always see a brain injury on an MRI or CT scan.  Suffering from a traumatic brain injury creates a dramatic change in your life, and the lives of those you love.  TBI can also create loss of income or earning potential if you are limited or no longer able to perform your job, in addition to creating huge expenses for medical treatment over a lifetime.  Wendy Schiller-Nichols is dedicated to all of her clients who have suffered serious injuries as a result of an automobile or other accident and helping them improve their lives.

 

The Nichols Law Firm, PLLC represents clients throughout Mid Michigan and South Central Michigan including the cities of Lansing, Owosso, Haslett, Okemos, Grand Ledge, Mason, Charlotte, Portland, St. Johns, Battle Creek, Howell, Brighton, Williamston, Ithaca, Jackson, Flint, Grand Blanc, Breckenridge, Carson City, Shepard, St. Louis, Alma, Pine River Township, and Sumner Township.

Ingham County • Livingston County • Clinton County • Shiawassee County • Jackson County • Eaton County • Gratiot County

The information contained in this web site is neither legal advice nor is it intended to be legal advice. The information contained in this web site is general information designed to give the reader a basic understanding of some legal concepts about what we do in these areas.

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