Experience Matters!

Jennifer T. Stanton is an experienced, effective and aggressive trial attorney. With fifteen years of trial experience, her practice is limited solely to the defense of the criminally accused in federal and state trial and appellate courts. Ms. Stanton graduated from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in 1983. Since receiving her Juris Doctorate degree from New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1990, Ms. Stanton has been sworn before the following courts: Virginia Supreme Court and all the lower Virginia courts - 1991; United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia - 1993; United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit – 1996; and the United States Supreme Court – 1999. Her firm provides criminal defense services to clients in matters of federal and state trials, pre- and post-trial motions, sentencings and post-conviction relief. Ms. Stanton also acts as local counsel for out-of-state attorneys who practice in this jurisdiction pro hac vice.