Attorney
Greenwood Village, Colorado, 80111
Before entering law school throughout college and after H. Michael volunteered to represent the indigent and the poor for Legal Aid and Legal Services Corporation Agencies across the United States on both coasts and in the middle west in he states of Massachusetts, Oregon and Illinois. The latter was a one year assignment as a paralegal for VISTA PEACECORPS in the late 1970’s.
Mr. Steinberg graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1978, cum laude (with honors) with a B.A. in Legal Studies/Honors Studies. Thereafter he graduated from the University of Oregon Law School in 1982. and came to the great state of Colorado. His first position as an attorney was to work side by side with one of the great District Court judges of the Denver bench, the Honorable Alvin D. Litchenstein. Judge Litchenstein taught Mr. Steinberg the meaning of hard work to accomplish just results in, and out, of the courtroom.
In Law School at the University of Oregon School of Law H. Michael interned and worked as a Law Student Prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice his second year of law school. In his third year of law school at the Lane County Oregon (Eugene) Office of the District Attorney he set a record for trying more cases than any other intern for that large metropolitan office.
As a former career district attorney for over twelve years, Mr. Steinberg has handled several thousand serious felony cases and countless misdemeanor and traffic cases. He has taken dozens of jury trials to verdict and has argued hundreds of contested adversarial hearings while actively engaged in the practice of trial and appellate law in the Denver Area area for the last twenty six years.
Trial Lawyer: 13 years as a Senior Deputy District Attorney Followed By The Founding Of His Law Firm And An Additional 13 Years As A Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer.
From 1984 to 1997, Mr. Steinberg was a Senior Trial Deputy District Attorney for the Arapahoe and Douglas County District Attorney’s Office the second largest judicial district in the State of Colorado. Mr. Steinberg prosecuted numerous top level felony cases, including several high profile felony crimes of violence and white collar criminal cases.
Mr. Steinberg is known for lengthy and thorough pretrial challenges, motions, trial preparation, trial strategy, juror selection, and every aspect of trial law. He has over 26 years experience in the utilization of advanced technology including state-of-the-art computer hardware and software for legal research and writing and case management and the use of a high speed cable access link to the internet for expansive fact and medical research. He built this website and three others like it and is fascinated by the use of technology and its application to Criminal Defense Law and Procedure.
Mr. Steinberg’s strong interest and use of the these technologies greatly enhances the successful representation of his clients.
