Credentials:
When faced with a serious criminal charge, it's always important to have an experienced criminal defense attorney on your side. You need a lawyer who can protect your rights, make sure you're treated fairly, and who knows how to get results. Mike Sherman is that lawyer! Mike has over 19 years experience, including serving as an attorney with the Pennsylvania State Police for over 8 years. Mike knows both sides of the law!

From 1988 through 1996, Mike Sherman was an Assistant Counsel to the Pennsylvania State Police in Department Headquarters. For the first two and one half years, he prosecuted liquor code violations on behalf of the State Police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement.

In 1991, he became counsel to the State Police on all matters relating to law enforcement.

In 1997, he opened a law office strictly dedicated to criminal and DUI defense, as well as, personal injury cases.

Then, in 1999, he served as a member of the trial team that was appointed to represent the County of Allegheny located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the "Tobacco Litigation", a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the nation's largest tobacco companies. He sought damages for injuries caused to the county relating to payments it made for tobacco related illnesses.

He has handled cases before 25 County Courts of Common Pleas (County Trial Courts), traveling all over the state of Pennsylvania, and even out of state. He has appeared before each of the Pennsylvania's Appeals Courts: Commonwealth Court, Superior Court, and Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

• Co-Author, Pennsylvania Driving Under the Influence Law and Practice (Bisel Co.)

• Speaker, "Evidentiary and Constitutional Issues Under the New DAI Statute"
  Driving After Imbibing: From Last Call to City Hall
  Pennsylvania Bar Institute
  December 20, 2006, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Televised live Via Satellite to 25 locations across Pennsylvania and live Webcast)

• Speaker, "DUI Penalties and Sentencing Issues"
  Driving After Imbibing: From Last Call to City Hall
  Pennsylvania Bar Institute
  December 8, 2006, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA)/International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Practitioner Course (24 hours)
  Walden, Platt & Associates
  April 21-23, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia

• 14th Annual Mastering Scientific Evidence in DUI/DWI Cases (22 hours)
  Texas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers/National College of DUI Defense
  April 19-21, 2007, Dallas, Texas

• Driving After Imbibing (4 hours)
  Pennsylvania Bar Institute
  December 20, 2006, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

• Driving After Imbibing (4 hours)
  Pennsylvania Bar Institute
  December 8, 2006, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• 10th Annual DWI Means Defend With Ingenuity Seminar (12 hours)
  National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  October 12-14, 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada

• 11th Annual Mastering Scientific Evidence in DUI/DWI Cases (22.5 hours)
  National College of DUI Defense
  April 22-24, 2004, Atlanta, Georgia

• Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) Program, Part 1 (1 hour)

• National College for DUI Defense


• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers


• Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers


• Association of Trial Lawyers of America

• Pennsylvania Driving Under the Influence Law & Practice ($225.00/Bisel)


• Drinking/Driving Litigation: Criminal and Civil, 2nd Edition ($962.00/West Pub.)


• Intoxication Test Evidence, 2nd Edition ($336.00/West Pub.)


• Handling Drunk Driving Cases, 2nd Edition ($350.00/West Pub.)


• Drunk Driving Defense, 6th Edition ($225.00/Aspen Publishers)


• Defending Drinking Drivers ($99.00/James Publishing)


• Attacking and Defending Drunk Driving Tests ($119.00/James Publishing)


• DUI Journal ($260.00 per year)


• Medical-Legal Aspects of Alcohol, 4th Edition ($129.00)


• Materials from Mastering Scientific Evidence in DUI/DWI Cases, 2003, 2005, & 2007 (over $1,000.00)


• Driving After Imbibing, 2006 (PBI)


• Solving Drivers Licensing Problems, 2006 (PBI/$99.00)


• Materials from National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Yearly DUI Seminar, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 ($500.00)


• Advanced Strategies in Handling DWI and DUI Cases, 2006 (Lorman) $147.00