NOLA Criminal Law is Townsend Myers - an established criminal defense lawyer in New Orleans. Townsend is a 1993 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, with an undergraduate degree in history from the University of South Carolina Honors College. While in law school, he completed a clinical education program with a concentration in criminal law. After graduation he began his career as an assistant public defender with the Cook County Public Defender s Office in Chicago. He has been a criminal lawyer, and only a criminal lawyer, ever since. In 1996, he returned to New Orleans, establishing his professional career with the Orleans Parish Public Defender’s Office. In early 1998, he established NOLA Criminal Law. NOLA Criminal Law exists because Townsend wants to understand your problem, and help solve your problem. The goal of NOLA Criminal Law is to provide a top-notch professional service to all of its clients, while still maintaining a level of personal dedication to each individual client. Our promise is that your criminal problem, whatever it is, will get the attention it deserves, and hopefully the result you expect. When you have a criminal problem, you need a criminal lawyer. Over the course of Townsend's career he has handled well over five thousand felony criminal cases, hundreds of DWI case, and countless misdemeanor and traffic cases.You get the fruits of that experience when he shows up in court to handle your case.