THE LENTO LAW FIRM TEAM

When you're facing criminal accusations, having a good criminal defense attorney is one thing--but having an entire legal team behind you gives you an exponentially greater advantage. That's why, when Joseph D. Lento founded the Lento Law Firm, he did so not just to provide excellent legal services but also to build a winning team with a shared passion to fight for their clients. As a result, the Lento Law Firm's Criminal Defense Team has gained a reputation as one of the most experienced and dedicated legal teams in the profession.

Whether you're fighting against charges of assault, drug crimes, child abuse allegations, an unfair restraining order, or any other criminal charges in New Jersey, you can rest assured that the Criminal Defense Team at the Lento Law Firm is on your side. Our support extends beyond the courtroom, encompassing all the necessary background probing, preparation, structuring, and paperwork needed to obtain the best possible outcome for you. To arrange a consultation, contact the Lento Law Firm today at (888) 535-3686 or submit your request through our online contact form.

What Defines an Exceptional Legal Team

When it comes to criminal defense, the effectiveness of a legal team is determined by the abilities and dedication of its team members. The selection process at the Lento Law Firm is not solely about agreeable personalities; we put great emphasis on hiring capable staff with strong qualifications, admirable character traits, practical knowledge, and a shared passion for delivering excellent service to our clients.

The legal staff at the Lento Law Firm embodies the firm's values, and their quality and commitment are key components of our successful track record.

Principal Attorneys

Clients often derive confidence from the reputation and skills of a law firm's founding partners when selecting legal representation. These attorneys establish the vision and direction for the firm, provide overall guidance for the team, and often take the lead when the case proceeds to court.

Associate Attorneys

Fully certified and capable of handling critical issues, associate attorneys are often the unsung heroes working diligently behind the scenes. These associates embody the passion and dedication of the firm's senior partners. The Lento Law Firm has a sharp eye for identifying talented associates and a commitment to fostering their growth. When you choose to work with our Criminal Defense Team, you're not just working with top-tier partners but with an entire staff of highly talented associates who are determined to leverage their skills to your best advantage.

Paralegals and Legal Assistants

A successful legal team cannot function efficiently without the help of a staff of proficient paralegals and legal assistants. While these professionals have not undergone the years of professional education that lawyers go through, they have valuable training in organizing, prioritizing, and executing various forms of legal work.

Paralegals and legal assistants typically go through four-year undergraduate degree programs, acquiring skills that enable them to manage client intakes efficiently, maintain files, handle record requests, review and summarize medical, employment, and school records, and prepare accounts and chronologies, among other essential tasks. Their foundational work is crucial in freeing up the attorneys to concentrate on more intricate, high-value tasks. The primary role of these professionals within the Lento Law Firm Team is to ensure that all other professionals within the team can perform at their optimal level.

Staff Investigators

At the Lento Law Firm, our legal team extends beyond lawyers and supporting staff. We also boast a diverse group of seasoned investigators who are integral to gathering evidence, conducting comprehensive research, and unearthing critical facts, all of which contribute significantly to building solid cases for our clients. These professionals bring valuable expertise and insights to our team from their backgrounds in law enforcement, intelligence, and other related sectors.

The Indispensable Role of Investigation in Your Case

Clients have a pivotal role in providing their defense attorney with substantial facts. By withholding pertinent information, they inadvertently hamper their own case and the efforts of their defense attorney. However, clients may not always be aware of every detail of their case. They understand their experiences but may not know what evidence the prosecution has unearthed. This is why the importance of experienced in-house investigation cannot be overstated.

Investigative work forms an essential component of the Lento Law Firm's practice areas in legal defense. To deliver exceptional service, attorneys must grasp every relevant detail about their client's case. An attorney who steps into a trial, hearing, conference, or negotiation unaware of crucial facts instantly undermines their credibility and competence. The industry uses harsh terminology for investigative failures, such as being "sandbagged," "duped," or "blindsided." These investigative lapses often become the turning point leading to a lost case. To prevent such outcomes, the Criminal Defense Team at the Lento Law Firm prioritizes exhaustive investigation, ensuring they have all the facts when offering vigorous representation. A winning attorney is one with a firm grasp of the facts of the case.

Bringing the Investigation In-House

From its inception, the Lento Law Firm Team has understood that in-house investigation is the most efficient way to cater to our clients' needs. Hence, we have opted to incorporate these capabilities within our firm, employing full-time investigators instead of engaging them on a case-by-case basis. Our investigators uncover facts using lawful methods to procure information and evidence that could significantly influence the client's case. The investigators within the Lento Law Firm Team locate witnesses, record witness statements, visit government and private offices, photograph and measure crime scenes, conduct archive searches, and secure and scrutinize evidence. Their training and experience in law enforcement provide them with an insider's understanding of how successful investigations operate. When you engage the Lento Law Firm Team, you benefit from the expertise of these skilled investigators.

Our team includes former law enforcement officers with decades of experience in Special Investigation Units. These investigators have spearheaded thousands of governmental and private investigations into a wide array of criminal and civil matters, including all the practice areas that the Lento Law Firm Team covers. Often, our most significant victories for our clients can be attributed to the exceptional skills and dedicated work of these in-house investigators.

Strategic Intelligence

Investigation is a crucial part of the groundwork for any successful case, but another equally important aspect is intelligence analysis. This process goes beyond merely amassing data. It involves a thorough examination of the gathered information to uncover patterns that could prove pivotal to your case. Such analysis can also lead to the identification and presentation of other essential evidence.

To this end, the Lento Law Firm has established partnerships with an attorney intelligence analyst and an analyst firm to take our services to a new echelon of proficiency. When you work with the Lento Law Firm, you benefit from these professional intelligence analyst services, as well.

Expert Consultants and Resources

Delivering top-tier legal services requires more than a strong internal team; it also necessitates access to an extensive network of external expert consultants and resources. That's why we've developed working relationships with a vast network of professionals who are experts in their respective fields. These external consultants provide our clients with crucial services, ensuring they receive the necessary coaching, mentoring, counseling, treatment, and other forms of support needed for a successful defense. Furthermore, these consultants can generate credible reports and provide expert testimony during trials and hearings, persuading judges, juries, prosecutors, and others of the client's abilities and intentions.

The specific expert consultants and resources required for a successful defense can vary greatly from one case to another, and the professional landscape is constantly evolving as new disciplines emerge and existing ones expand. The Lento Law Firm stays current with these changes and developments to ensure we can provide the most recent experts and expertise for your case. Here is a cross-section of the specialists we may engage to support your case:

Mental Health Professionals: We engage psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and therapists to provide mental health resources. They conduct examinations, administer mental health tests, diagnose mental health conditions, recommend and implement treatment, and provide expert opinions and prognoses. These professionals can address criminal, family, and other case issues involving competency, sanity, anger management, emotional control, suicidal ideation, dependent care, and safety and security in relationships.

Medical Experts: Our network includes physicians, toxicologists, specialists, and other medical consultants who offer medical and physical health resources. They perform examinations, administer tests, diagnose physical conditions, treat physical ailments, and provide expert opinions and prognoses on issues involving competency, capability, identity, recovery, care, safety, and security.

Substance Abuse Specialists: We collaborate with substance abuse, addiction, and narcotics consultants who bring expertise in identifying, using, and abusing alcohol and drugs. They perform tests, conduct interviews and reviews, make recommendations, administer treatment and programs, provide education and training, and offer informed opinions on capability, recovery, and safety and security in familial and other relationships.

Family Counselors and Social Workers: We work with social workers, family counselors, and life care managers who examine, inspect, review, and opine on family law, domestic violence, restraining orders, and similar cases involving dependent care, safety, security, and household management issues.

Sex Crime Experts: We engage sex addiction and sex offender experts for cases involving sex offender disputes, registry issues, sexual misconduct charges, restraining order cases, and others involving allegations of sex crimes or sexual deviance.

Financial Consultants: We partner with accountants and finance consultants who bring financial expertise to criminal and business cases involving allegations of conversion, embezzlement, fraud, and other financial improprieties. They also handle valuations of businesses and properties and confirm and opine on the source and nature of disputed financial transactions.

Technology Consultants: We work with computer, technology, and electronics consultants who specialize in identifying and tracing electronically stored information, addressing disputes in academic misconduct cases, restraining order cases involving social media posts and access or cyberstalking, and criminal cases involving allegations of electronic threats, hacking, and financial improprieties.

Identification Experts: Our network also includes handwriting, fingerprint, and other identification consultants. They bring expertise to criminal cases involving questions over authorship and identification.

Forensic Experts: We engage blood-testing, DNA, and other forensic consultants who specialize in examination, testing, and identification for criminal cases, drunk driving cases, sexual assault cases, and others requiring forensic review of biological evidence.

Rehabilitation Consultants: We partner with rehabilitation and remedial consultants who bring expertise in physical and mental capability to perform self-care, household services and management, and occupations for cases involving illness, injury, disability, domestic violence cases, and similar disputes.

Weapons Specialists: We collaborate with weapons consultants who possess expertise in ammunition, ballistics, and firearms. These experts play a crucial role in criminal cases, gun registration and safety matters, restraining order cases, and domestic and family violence cases. They provide invaluable assistance in disputes involving the possession, discharge, or other use and identification of weapons.

Visual Presentation Experts: Our team works alongside illustrators, animators, modelers, and other presentation consultants who specialize in presenting video, photographic, physical, mechanical, and scene evidence in the most effective manner possible. Whether it's for court trials and hearings, negotiations, or plea bargains, they ensure that evidence is presented in the clearest, most compelling, and easily understandable way.

The Invaluable Benefits of a Team Approach

Nothing is more powerful or effective than a team approach when it comes to defending you against criminal charges. The Criminal Defense Team at the Lento Law Firm is dedicated to securing the best possible resolution for you, equipped collectively with the necessary skills and resources for a successful defense. Here's what our teamwork offers you:

• Reputational Advantage: Our team approach ensures that your defense strategy is unimpeachable, capturing the attention of judges, prosecutors, police officers, probation officers, opposing parties, expert witnesses, family, friends, employers, and others who play a role or have an interest in your case.
• Financial Value: We strive to ensure that your investment in your defense yields returns far beyond what you initially invested. The return on this investment permeates various aspects of your life, including freedom, finances, employment, relationships, physical and mental health, and reputation.
• Social Benefit: Our approach ensures the preservation and enhancement of your relationships with family members, friends, neighbors, business or professional acquaintances, co-workers, and others who benefit from their relationship with you. This allows you to maintain a prosperous, beneficial, and rewarding social life.

A Leading Criminal Defense Team in New Jersey

If you need skillful legal representation for any criminal defense matter in New Jersey, the Criminal Defense Team at the Lento Law Firm is here to help. We have brought together the best possible blend of attorneys, legal staff, staff investigators, strategic partners, and outside expert consultants and resources to deliver a winning defense for your case. Call us at (888) 535-3686 or use our online contact form to schedule a consultation.