Start by scheduling a free 30 to 45 minute consultation through the booking link. We will talk about your case, your client, and what mitigation support could look like from here. You will hear back within one business day to confirm your time. From that conversation, we will align on scope, timeline, and next steps together.

In the instances of a downward dispositional departure memorandum, a typical timeline for complete work product is six weeks from the date of engagement.

Once scope is confirmed, an Attorney Services Agreement and Statement of Work are executed. The Statement of Work defines scope, deliverables, and timeline so expectations are clear from day one. A case number is created and your client's file is opened.

I will reach out to your client directly, introducing myself as part of your legal team, and their defense team. A social history interview is scheduled at whatever location is appropriate.

At the interview, I have the client sign whatever releases of information are necessary for the success of their case.

The interview covers your client's full life history including family background, childhood, education, employment, housing, relationships, health, mental health, substance use, and their experience with the legal system.

I complete a genogram, mapping family history, generational patterns, trauma exposure, and relationship dynamics across multiple generations. I conduct a structured needs assessment, identifying unmet needs, available strengths, and gaps where intervention is most urgent and most likely to produce results.

Together, these tools give both myself, and you, the attorney a comprehensive strategic picture. Not just a biography but a roadmap. What does this client need most right now? Where has the system failed them? What story does the court need to hear? That clarity emerges from the front end of this process, early enough to act on it.

Your client leaves the interview feeling seen. What you get is a partner who knows the case from the inside, and a strategy grounded in the full human picture.

Under the signed authorization, we request records from all relevant providers including medical, mental health, treatment, education, employment. We also conduct collateral interviews with family members, counselors, teachers, employers, or anyone who can speak to your client's full story. Every contact is logged. Every record received is organized and secured.

I draft and deliver a professionally written mitigation report that tells your client's story clearly, and contextualizes the circumstances of the offense. I include whatever information is critical to the case. This information supports the arguments you are making to the court. The report is written for human beings: judges, prosecutors, and courtrooms. Visual presentations are also possible and depending on the circumstances of the case, they are imperative to delivery of the sentencing narrative.

At sentencing, Human First has done everything possible to ensure the court sees a full human being, not just a charge. If your client is granted a downward dispositional departure, I offer a voluntary post-departure coaching model, a step-down structure to support the transition and the goals your client set at intake. If your client goes to prison, we can prepare a case transition summary and coordinate directly with their Department of Corrections case manager so when they arrive, the work we started together can be continued.