Welcome to my website! And welcome to my “image.” I put image in quotes because my hope is that this website gives you an idea of who I really am. Despite the article below, which refers to me as one of LA’s go-to lawyers for celebrities, I am, before anything, a husband and father. And, on a professional level, I am, before anything, a simple guy from the Midwest who has followed and is currently living his dream: becoming a highly sought after lawyer — nationwide – for people of all stripes and socieconomic levels when they’re facing serious criminal charges or have already been convicted of them.
As they say, “The times? They are a-changin’.” While that may be true, there are a few things about me which will never change. My goal today is the same as it was on the day I first took an oath to become a lawyer: to provide top-flight criminal defense representation nationwide, no matter the case, no matter the client, no matter the challenge. My goal today is the same it has always been: to stand in the gap for you, whether your case is inside or outside California, and, most importantly, to stand in the gap for you with courage, integrity, and results.
Again, welcome.
– MARK.
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Courtesy of www.thewrap.com (Author: Dominic Patten)
You’ve seen them on Larry King, you’ve heard them on the microphones at the courthouse steps, and you read their names every time some celebrity goes haywire.
They’re the lawyers to the stars – and there are many.
The highest-profile legal eagles, like Mark Geragos and the late Johnnie Cochran, have become TV celebrities unto themselves.
But some of the busiest celeb lawyers in town these days are non-household names. Without them, the wheels of Hollywood justice would grind to a halt.
Tom Sizemore from “Saving Private Ryan,” “Black Hawk Down,” and “Pearl Harbor” and his attorney Mark McBride
TheWrap narrows down some of Hollywood’s top-notch personal attorneys, what they’re doing and who they’re doing it for.
SPECIALTY: Criminal Defense
FIRM: Mark McBride Law / Gardner + Associates
STAR CLIENT: Tom Sizemore
THE BRIEF: Along with fellow attorney Jennifer Gardner, McBride, who with his flair for fashion might make him the most well attired male attorney in L.A., struck a deal with the City Attorney that got the self-admitted drug addled and
often legally entangled “Saving Private Ryan” and “Celebrity Rehab” star off near certain jail time for domestic violence. Sizemore, a longtime friend of the lawyer’s, is now serving 36 months of probation and must perform 80 hours of community service teaching drama at the Hollenbeck Youth Center.
OTHER CELEB CLIENTS: McBride likes to keep most of his star cases out of the public eye. The Sizemore case was already in progress and on the record when McBride joined it.
STRATEGY: “Two things I bring to the table,” McBride told TheWrap, “are that I treat my high-profile clients like normal people, which they truly respect, and I also don’t charge them more just because they’re quite wealthy or because they’re well-known.” The Beverly Hills-based lawyer says that POV, as well as countering the notion a celeb lawyer “is just this easy-breezy, schmoozy type,” and that celebs automatically get special treatment from the courts, is a great part of both his accessibility to the media and in the court of public opinion. “What I try to articulate to the media is that my client and I are just normal people who, just like the viewer or reader or listener, puts their pants on one leg at a time like everybody else.” Beyond his folksy style and sartorial bent, one attorney who has faced off with McBride in court told TheWrap that the main reason the lawyer is a go-to guy for clients who want quiet resolutions is that “Mark is relentless in working the particulars to get his clients the best deal possible, and then some.”
