As your DWI Defense Attorney Jim Vallone, my job is to make sure they meet all of you.

I was first turned on to the law in high school when I volunteered in the public defender’s office. I graduated from the University of Buffalo with honors in 1979, majoring in history and political science. I attended my first year of law school at the University of Dayton where I finished my freshman year in the top 10% of my class. I also won the freshman Mock Trial Championship. The next year, I transferred to the University of Buffalo Law School, where I graduated in 1982.

I opened my firm in 1983 and have been practicing law ever since. I have held positions as a law guardian protecting the rights of children, a confidential law clerk in the Erie County Family Court, a prosecutingattorney for three separate municipalities, a municipal attorney for two different municipalities, the president of the Prosecutors Association of Western New York, a judge of the town of Cheektowaga, and a law professor. As an instructor of my fellow magistrate judges in five different counties, I taught courses in ethics, jury trials, and serious felony matters. All of this allows me to understand how judges think and react to various clientele and circumstances, giving my clients an advantage in the courtroom.