Dennis M. Hart is a criminal defense lawyer with twenty five years of experience. He has participated in many notable criminal prosecutions in the Washington, DC area and elsewhere over that time. He has defended individuals accused of offenses in high visibility prosecutions from political corruption to racketeering homicides.

Mr. Hart has served as lead counsel or co-lead counsel in numerous Federal criminal prosecutions that have been designated extended and complex by the Federal trial and appellate courts. In addition, he has presented cases before a majority of the Federal Courts of Appeals; has argued cases in the DC Circuit en banc; and has appeared before the United States Supreme Court in criminal cases on two occasions.

As a qualified Federal death penalty counsel, he recently completed a two-year, multi-count, multi-defendant Federal death penalty case in the Eastern District of Virginia. In the course of his appellate work he has served as lead counsel in hundreds of criminal and civil appeals to federal and local courts. He has participated in dozens of important cases whose significant and unique legal issues have generated nearly sixty published appellate decisions.

Mr. Hart's criminal litigation experience in the criminal trial and appellate areas has been supplemented by his involvement in complex civil litigation involving toxic-tort cases and bio-medical research litigation which focused on domestic and international corporate defendants and entailed a sophisticated analysis of large document discovery and organization.

Currently, Mr. Hart is involved in U.S. representation of clients charged with criminal offenses in foreign proceedings. He is a member of the District of Columbia, Virginia and Texas bars. Mr. Hart received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and his law degree from the University of Houston.