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	CLEVE M. JOHNSON 495 South High Street, Suite 400; Columbus, Ohio 43215-5058 (first building south of courthouse) Map (614) 299-8235__________________cj@clevejohnson.com
	HOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION •Do you need a serious defense? •Would you rather keep it simple? •Do you absolutely have to drive? •Are OVI's impossible to win? •21 ways to "beat" the test •Mistakes made in OVI cases. •Myths about OVI cases. •After court checklist SPECIAL HAZARDS •Is your job on the line? •Commercial driver's licenses •Are you a pilot? •Can an OVI be a death sentence? EXPERIENCE & CREDENTIALS •Qualifications and experience •The real best lawyers •State Bar Journal Article ATTORNEY'S FEES •Attorney fee answers & "secrets". •Is a lawyer worth the money? OVI LAWS & PENALTIES •OVI penalties •Drinks & alchool levels DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION •Myths and misunderstandings •DUS and no ops penalties LICENSE SUSPENSION CASES •22 ways to win point cases •48 ways to lose your license LOCATION AND MAP .
			*WHO ARE THE REAL* BEST OVI LAWYERS? Who actually knows who the best lawyers are? Is it reporters for publications based in other cities or states or is it other local drunk driving lawyers? Are the best OVI lawyers the ones who spend most of their time asking their friends to recommend them to publications or are they the lawyers that other OVI lawyers go to learn from in continuing legal education seminars? Do you want a lawyer that specializes in self promotion or one who concentrates on knowing the law and representing clients in court? Who do other lawyers go to learn from? Over the years I have conservatively lectured to lawyers in at least 50-75 different continuing legal education seminars. Among the sponsoring organizations are: National College for DUI Defense Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Ohio State Bar Association Columbus Bar Association Central Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Ohio Trial Lawyer’s Association Lorman Educational Services See also Recent Teaching Events below.**

Recent Teaching Events. Posted below are some of the recent topics on which I have spoken and the organizations which hosted the seminars. It should be noted that there are only a handful of Ohio OVI lawyers with comparable speaking records, and none with a more extensive or varied one. No other Ohio lawyer that has lectured at the National College for DUI Defense. [back]

	11/21/13	Ohio State Bar Association Annual OVI Update Seminar Topic #1: Solving Interstate Driver’s License Compact Problems Topic #2: Why You Probably Have the Wrong NHTSA Manual And how to tell if you have the right one.

	11/7/13	Columbus Bar Association--OVI Part II If You Have a NHTSA Manual It’s Probably the Wrong One. [NHTSA = Nathional Highway Traffic Safety Administration]

	11/7/13	Columbus Bar Association--OVI Part I In State Remedies for Out Of State License Problems

	11/21/13	The Supreme Court Of Ohio Judicial College Juvenile TrafficVideo Teleconference DUI, License Suspension, and Serious Traffic Offenses

	5/13/13	Lorain County Bar Association Winning OVI cases when the deck is stacked against you. The science of why convicting is easy, defending is hard, and some practical tips on how to help improve the odds.

	5/9/13	Ohio State Bar Association Convention Traffic Law Seminar Important Changes in Commercial Driver’s License Legislation

	3/13/13	Ohio State Bar Association On Demand Video OVI Essentials

	3/8/13	Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Handling a DUI Case Start to Finish - Pleadings, motions & everything you need to know

	11/28/12	Ohio State Bar Association Annual OVI Update Seminar Important Changes in CDL [Commercial Driver's License] Legislation Disqualification is now almost automatic. What used to work no longer does. How to avoid the pitfalls.

	11/30/12	Columbus Bar Association--OVI Part II Organized Seminar (chose topics as well as selected & introduced speakers) The new CDL law [CDL = Commercial Driver's License].

	11/30/12	Columbus Bar Association--OVI Part I Organized Seminar (chose topics as well as selected & introduced speakers) Better plead this one in 4C, right? See different lawyers explain how cases which at first glance seemed unwinnable turned out not be. Learn about the case and what worked.

	11/21/12	Lyons & Lyons Thanksgiving OVI Seminar Learn What the Judges Learned (or at least what they should have)

	7/17/12	Association of Municipal/County Judges of Ohio Coming to a Court Near You: The Intoxilyzer 8000

	5/3/12	Ohio State Bar Association Convention Traffic Law Seminar The Intoxilyzer 8000 regulations..

	3/9/12	Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers The Intoxilyzer 8000 Web Site

	2/8/12	Columbus Bar Association, Criminal Law Committee Traffic Law

	1/12/12	Northeast Ohio Prosecuting Attorney's Association The Intoxilyzer 8000 Regulations

	12/9/11	Columbus Bar Association--OVI Part II Organized Seminar (chose topics as well as selected & introduced speakers)

	12/9/11	Columbus Bar Association--OVI Part I Organized Seminar (chose topics as well as selected & introduced speakers) Common as Well As Obscure Mistakes Lawyers Make In OVI cases -- and how to avoid them.

	11/30/11	Ohio State Bar Association Annual OVI Update Seminar Topic #1: The Intoxilyzer 8000 Regulations Topic #2: A Second Look at HB 338

	11/23/11	Lyons & Lyons Thanksgiving OVI Seminar The Intoxilyzer 8000-Things To Look For On the Internet

	11/4/11	Lorman OVI Seminar The Intoxilyzer 8000

	5/11/11	Lorain County Bar Association How the new ODH regulations and the 8000 logs are different from anything we have seen before

	5/5/11	Ohio State Bar Association Convention Traffic Law Seminar How the 8000 regulations and logs are different.

	3/11/11	Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers The Department of Health's Intoxilyzer Online Data--How To Use It and Interesting Things You Will Find--and Won't Find--On the Web

	12/16/10	Mahoning County Bar Association OVI – New Trends and Tactics Topic: How the new ODH regulations and the 8000 logs are very different from anything we have seen before

	11/30/10	Columbus Bar Association--OVI Part II Organized Seminar (chose topics as well as selected & introduced speakers) Topic: Panel Discussion

	11/30/10	Columbus Bar Association--OVI Part I Organized Seminar (chose topics as well as selected & introduced speakers) Topic #1: The Intoxilyzer 8000: How the 8000 regulations and logs are different. Topic #2: HB 338. A useful new tool to deal with license suspension matters.

	11/19/10	Columbus Bar Association, Criminal Law Committee House Bill 338

	11/19/10	Ohio State Bar Association Annual OVI Update Seminar Administrative License Suspension

	5/6/10	Ohio State Bar Association Annual OVI Seminar The BMV and License Suspension Issues

	3/12/10	Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Overcoming Our Miseducation About How Persuasion Really Works

	12/3/09	Columbus Bar Association--OVI Part I Organized Seminar (selected speakers and choose topics) Topic: The October 16, 2009 revisions to the suspensions no ops & other statutes

	12/3/09	Columbus Bar Association--OVI Part II Organized Seminar (selected speakers and choose topics) Topic: What Defense Attorneys Want Prosecutors to Know

	11/20/09	Ohio State Bar Association Annual OVI Seminar Administrative License Suspension Appeals

	8/28/09	Musinkgum County Bar Association The Bureau of Motor Vehicles and License Suspension Issues

	5/21/09	Ohio State Bar Association Convention The Intoxilyzer 8000

	12/16/08	Franklin County Municipal Court Committee Recent Developments and Potential Additional Changes to Ohio’s DUI Law. What are the current and future challenges of dealing with DUI cases?

	12/12/08	Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Senate Bill 17 and other 2008 law changes

	12/12/08	Ohio State Bar Association New Lawyers Seminar OVI Cases

	11/13/08	Ohio State Bar Association, Annual DUI Seminar Traps for Lawyers: The Defense Perspective: Constitutional Issues.

	10/13/08	Ohio State Bar Association District 5 Meeting Senate Bill 17 and other 2008 law changes

	9/30/08	Columbus Bar Association Suppression Motions, New Traps For Lawyers

	9/19/08	Columbus Bar Association Legislation Seminar.

	7/18/08	National College For DUI Defense Lessons Learned form Political Consultants and Others.

	5/28/08	Lorman OVI Seminar Recent Legislative Change

	3/7/08	Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Using scientific techniques employed by highly paid political consultants to win OVI cases

	12/19/07	Ohio State Bar Association, Annual DUI Seminar Challenging prior convictions

		Full speaking history dates back to the early 1990’s