Dan Petersen

Bio

I am a criminal defense attorney at Tim Anderson Law dedicated to helping clients who are facing federal, state, or municipal criminal prosecution or who are under investigation by either the local police department, a county prosecutor’s office, or the federal government.

Our practice is devoted to clients who are facing the massive power of the federal government and the state in proceedings in which they may lose their liberty, their reputation, and their ability to earn a living. We are criminal defense attorneys. I have been taught and wholeheartedly believe that our singular focus on criminal cases has allowed us to accrue the knowledge and experience necessary to use our resources and skills to effectively represent those accused of very serious crimes.

Our business is case preparation. Our business can be straight-forward, but is not easy. Shows and movies depict dramatic and poignant courtroom scenes — lots of drama but little substance. That is fiction. The reality of successfully trying and defending a criminal case is that the courtroom spectacle is only the tip of the iceberg. What lies unseen beneath the surface is how we prepared, how we built that case with hours and hours of investigation, research, and analysis to get to the heart of the facts and circumstances of each particular case.

Most cases don’t go to trial. As I wrote earlier, case preparation is simple, but not easy. We work very hard from the beginning of every case to ask the right questions, find the right answers, and develop the right strategy to best serve our clients, regardless of the odds we and our clients face. We cannot guarantee a certain result, but we can guarantee tireless effort and preparation, and importantly, empathy for our clients.

I have traveled the very difficult road of becoming an able advocate for my clients. Tim has shared with me the lessons he has learned on his journey to becoming a known and respected criminal trial attorney. On that journey we have learned that we have to be thorough, and we have to be adept at asking the right questions.

We know that cross-examination does not begin at trial. It begins the first day we take a case, when we begin the detailed, and at times, painstaking process of investigating, and then challenging, the evidence that the federal government and state has marshaled against our client.