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Fiandach & Fiandach
100 Allens Creek Rd #100
Rochester NY 14618-3303
Tel: 585 244-8910
Fax: 585 244-4863
E-mail: ed@fiandach.com

Board Certified DWI Attorney - National College for DUI Defense

In 1976, nationally renowned Rochester New York DWI trial expert, Edward L. Fiandach, presented his first paper on Driving While Intoxicated. Since then he's given over 100 lectures on DWI, became New York's first Board Certified DWI Specialist, authored two sets of books on DWI, established a firm that tries more DWI cases than any firm in the State of New York and has written more articles on New York DWI than any attorney in the world. His monthly DWI newsletter, The New York DWI Bulletin, is the only statewide publication of its kind and for twelve years has been continuously used by lawyers, prosecutors and judges across the state. His annually supplemented DWI treatises, New York Driving While Intoxicated, 2d and Handling Drunk Driving Cases 2d, both two volume, nationally distributed texts, are widely acclaimed as the most authoritative publications of their kind. His DWI articles have been published nationally in The Magistrate, The Public Defense Backup Report, The Daily Record, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Times Union, Criminal Justice Journal and The Automobile Liability Newsletter, The Champion and numerous state and local bar association publications in New York and elsewhere.

He also owns and is factory trained on a BAC DataMaster and has conducted replicate DWI testing to demonstrate the effects mouth alcohol at lectures and for the media.

In July of 2005 at a program conducted at Harvard Law School, Mr. Fiandach was honored by being named the Dean of The National College for DUI Defense. This puts him at the top of the nation's DWI lawyers.

He is the first DWI attorney in the State of New York to ever be approved as a Board Certified DWI specialist by the American Bar Association and the only one in the Buffalo, Rochester, Utica, Syracuse, Binghamton and Watertown area. He is also rated "AV" by the nationally recognized Martindale-Hubble lawyer rating system. This is the highest rating a lawyer can receive. This puts him in the top 5 percent of all American lawyers.

Mr. Fiandach is frequently used as a source of DWI information by such prestigious news outlets as The New York Times, The New York Daily News, CNN, the Associated Press, ABC, The Harrisburg Patriot, Lawyer's Weekly and others. He has been a featured "Speaking Out" columnist in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle on eleven occasions. He is a frequent guest of local television and is regularly interviewed by all local media as an expert on DWI and alcohol related issues. He is also a frequent guest on television, radio and internet talk shows.

A dynamic speaker, Ed Fiandach has lectured on DWI nationwide for groups such as the National College for DUI Defense, the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Georgia Institute of Legal Education, New York State Bar Association, the New York State Magistrates Association, the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Lorman Legal Education, the Erie County Bar Association, and numerous other professional organizations. He is a regent and founding member of the National College for DUI Defense. He has taught the subject of DWI to New York State Judges on behalf of the New York State Office of Court Administration. He owns and is a factory trained operator of the BAC DataMaster.

Mr. Fiandach is also an adjunct professor of Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure at the prestigious University of Rochester. He teaches a course on Criminal Procedure and Constitutional Law to almost 100 upper classpersons.

Over the years Mr. Fiandach has consistently demonstrated that he is a force to be reckoned with in the face of incompetence or injustice. In 2001, for instance he was instrumental in exposing the incompetent and unjust practices of the Monroe County District Attorney's Office in the prosecution of felonies. Ignoring what was at times intense opposition from the local media, Mr. Fiandach called for the resignation of then District Attorney Howard R. Relin. Simultaneously, he petitioned then Governor George A. Pataki to launch an investigation into the disappearance of more than five thousand felony cases.

Although that two year investigation fell short of calling for Mr. Relin's resignation, it nonetheless acceded to many of Mr. Fiandach's complaints. Thereafter, Mr. Relin chose not to seek reelection.

Since he obtained a reversal in a murder appeal he argued after being admitted for only two months (see, People v. Egan (4th Dept. 1980) 72 AD2d 239, 424 NYS2d 546, Mr. Fiandach's career has been one of outstanding accomplishments and legal victories.

Over the years, his DWI clients have included doctors, nurses, airline and professional pilots, physicians assistants, lawyers, judges, professional musicians, professional athletes, priests, military personnel, politicians, police chiefs, fireman, bus drivers commercial drivers, CEO's, teachers, college administrators, professors, models, actors and actresses.

He owns and has also been trained by the manufacturer as an Operator of the National Patent Analytical System "DataMaster", the breath testing device in widest use in New York State.

When he's not with a client, in court or lecturing, Ed enjoys bicycling, Civil War history, skiing, cooking and most of all spending time with his wife and son (Jillian & Will) and their two dogs.