Kinstler Law Office

About

Brian Kin­stler is a Milwaukee-based crim­i­nal defense lawyer rep­re­sent­ing peo­ple charged with crimes in state and fed­eral courts. He won his first crim­i­nal trial while still in law school, and quickly earned a rep­u­ta­tion as a pas­sion­ate advo­cate and a for­mi­da­ble oppo­nent in the courtroom.

Brian has worked on many of Milwaukee’s high­est pro­file cases. He has has won dra­matic vic­to­ries at trial, over­turned con­vic­tions at the state and fed­eral level, and obtained acquit­tals and dis­missals in a wide vari­ety of cases includ­ing homi­cides, arsons, sex­ual assaults, drug traf­fick­ing, and ille­gal firearm pos­ses­sion. He is also highly regarded for his work in white-collar cases, includ­ing some of the largest fraud cases in state his­tory. In addi­tion to his trial work, Brian has won appeals in the Wis­con­sin Supreme Court, the Wis­con­sin Court of Appeals, and the Sev­enth Cir­cuit Court of Appeals.

In 2010, Brian received the Wis­con­sin Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers’ Mar­tin Han­son Advo­cate Prize for his vic­tory in a closely watched homi­cide case. In 2010 and again in 2011, he was rec­og­nized as a Ris­ing Star in Wis­con­sin Super Lawyers Mag­a­zine. Brian is reg­u­larly invited to speak to lawyers and other pro­fes­sion­als on crim­i­nal defense issues, and his work in high-profile cases is well known in the legal com­mu­nity. He has been fea­tured in the Wis­con­sin Law Jour­nal, inter­viewed on CourtTV and CNN, and his cases have been cov­ered by the press through­out Wis­con­sin. He is also an occa­sional con­trib­u­tor to Inside Track, the online newslet­ter of the Wis­con­sin State Bar.

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