Award winning DUI & DWI attorney Brandon Kane has 20+ years experience, and is a preeminent DUI lawyer in both Kansas and Missouri, representing clients throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area with DUI & DWI charges and related driver’s license hearings resulting from test failures and refusals.

We are one of Kansas City’s premier criminal defense lawyers, focus our practice on DUI & DWI, and are perennially awarded top ratings by our clients, our peers, and lawyer rating awards and publications.

We represent clients in the following Cities and Municipalities:

Missouri: Jackson County, Clay County, Platte County, & Cass County

Kansas City, Missouri, Lee’s Summit, Blue Springs, Liberty, Gladstone, Raytown, Grandview, Belton. Northland (Clay/Platte Counties): Parkville, Smithville, Kearney, Excelsior Springs, Riverside, North Kansas City, Platte City. Eastern/Southern Suburbs: Grain Valley, Oak Grove, Pleasant Hill, Peculiar, Harrisonville. Other Municipalities: Buckner, Lake Lotawana, Lake Tapawingo, Lake Winnebago, Lone Jack, Raymore & more.

Kansas: Johnson County, Douglas County, Franklin County, & Wyandotte County

Bonner Springs, Basehor, DeSoto, Edgerton, Fairway, Gardner, Kansas City, Kansas, Lake Quivira, Lansing, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Leawood, Louisburg, Merriam, Mission, Mission Hills, Mission Woods, Olathe, Osawatomie, Ottawa, Overland Park, Paola, Prairie Village, Roeland Park, Shawnee, Spring Hill, Tonganoxie & more.

Contact us today to set up a free consultation and case review.

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When you are arrested and cited with DUI in Kansas or DWI Missouri, you will face two separate legal actions:

1. The State’s Department of Revenue will bring an administrative/civil case against your driver’s license and seek a suspension of your driver’s license; and
2. A criminal case will be brought by the city or county in which you were stopped, and will bring charges which could result in heavy fines, jail time, and other criminal sanctions.

These cases have significantly different procedures and repercussions, and both cases are extremely important. Time is of the essence, and Kansas and Missouri impose extremely short timeframes in which to protect your rights.

After you are arrested for DUI, you have 14 days (in Kansas) or 15 days (in Missouri) to request an administrative hearing regarding your license suspension, and oftentimes, you are not given much more time before your first required court appearance in your criminal case. Because each DUI case is different and each client is different, you should retain an experienced and skilled DUI lawyer that can analyze and explain the law and facts as they apply to your case, as well as provide an effective and aggressive defense against your DUI charges in Kansas and Missouri. We are also here to act as your DUI attorney in the related administrative charges related to your driver’s license suspension, and if necessary, any post judgment remedies and appeals in your administrative or criminal case.

The following provides a general outline of the process to retaining our law firm, and the steps we take when aggressively defending your DUI and DWI charges in Missouri and Kansas.

If you’ve been pulled over and charged with a DWI or DWI, you’re probably scared, confused, overwhelmed, and need advice. Our experienced DUI attorney is here to help.

Because every circuit court, district court, and municipal court in Kansas and Missouri has unique issues and rules involving DUI & DWI law, the first step to obtaining our assistance is to set up a consultation. During this consultation, we will provide you information regarding: (1) the specific charges against you; (2) an overview of the process of examining and addressing your DUI charge; (3) a quote on our attorney fees (which range from $4,000-$10,000+ depending on whether it is a first time misdemeanor, second time misdemeanor, or felony charge); (4) additional information regarding the process we utilize to review and aggressively defend your DUI charge; and (5) an overview of various potential outcomes.

To set up a consultation, please contact us via our Free Estimate Form, via email, or by calling our office at (816) 229-2708.

During or after our initial consultation, to retain us, we will have you sign an Engagement Letter, make the retainer payment, and sign a fee agreement (for payment plans) prior to our representation.

Once we agree on representation, we have a variety of payment options. You can pay via credit card (either over the phone or via link that we will email you) or cash (in person only). For most DUI charges, we request that you make an up front payment of our attorney fee, with any court costs, fines, and other payments due and payable by you to directly to the Court once your case is addressed and a disposition is entered. We do allow payment plans, typically with at least half paid up front prior to representation.

Our office zealously represents clients charged with Kansas DUI or Missouri DWI by carefully scrutinizing all of the relevant evidence in your case. Our DUI lawyer is successful by focusing on main categories in which mistakes are made during the arrest process, including the officer’s determination of “reasonable suspicion” and “probable cause” (through the three primary phases of a DUI/DWI, including vehicle in motion, officer contact, and pre-arrest screening). This includes an analysis of the legality and propriety of the field sobriety testing, Miranda rights, proof of operation, notice issues, post arrest blood, breath, and urine blood alcohol content (“BAC”) tests, and a multitude of other issues.

In reviewing the circumstances surrounding your DUI charges, we engage in thorough meetings with our client(s), and also pore over the officer’s reports, officer certification, dash camera evidence, booking station/booking room videos, breathalyzer maintenance records, witness information, and use our experience to determine whether the procedures utilized by the officer are consistent with NHTSA guidelines, state law, and the protections afforded to you by the United States Constitution. Through this DUI case review process, we are able to uncover evidence that enables us to fight your charge and review the validity or invalidity of the evidence used or charges made against you.

In reviewing the circumstances surrounding your DUI charges, we engage in thorough meetings with our client(s), and also pore over the officer’s reports, officer certification, dash camera evidence, booking station/booking room videos, breathalyzer maintenance records, witness information, and use our experience to determine whether the procedures utilized by the officer are consistent with NHTSA guidelines, state law, and the protections afforded to you by the United States Constitution. Through this DUI case review process, we are able to uncover evidence that enables us to fight your charge and review the validity or invalidity of the evidence used or charges made against you.

After meeting with you, reviewing the above information, and discussing your case with the prosecution, we will then discuss with you whether going to trial and aggressively fighting to prove your innocence is the best option, or conversely, whether your best option is to control much of the downside associated with a DUI by seeking a plea bargain. Regardless of the path that is ultimately chosen, we diligently and thoroughly review your case and advise and represent you so that we can achieve a successful outcome for you and your family.

After thoroughly reviewing your case, we are then in a position to advise you regarding the best legal strategy to handle your DUI case, including options and legal strategies to fight your DUI charges, or whether the best outcome may be through fighting on your behalf to have your charges reduced through a plea agreement, potentially resulting in less severe penalties and restrictions.

We will then utilize the analysis we have completed from prior steps to engage in plea negotiations with the Prosecutor’s Office, where we can seek dismissal of your case, amendment of charges, or a plea that ideally keeps the conviction off your criminal record.

After obtaining a plea offer or engaging in plea negotiations, we will oftentimes file a Motion to Suppress or other pretrial motions, seeking to have certain information excluded (typically on Fourth Amendment) grounds, and always then attacking the issues of “reasonable suspicion” or “probable cause”.

The final step to the DUI process is either having a trial on your case, entering into a plea agreement (or diversion agreement in some jurisdictions), or pleading “open” to the Judge. Prior to this we will discuss the various options with you so that you are well informed throughout the process.

Our firm also assists with the corresponding “administrative” case which deals with your driver’s license. If the plea or the administrative case includes a loss or suspension of your driver’s license, we are also available to represent you with obtaining a hardship license, limited driving privilege, or other tools allowing you to be able to drive to work, school, and other specified obligations during or after the statutorily mandated minimum suspension period.