Eric Eckes

We pride ourselves on litigating aggressively, yet professionally.

Eric Eckes is a highly skilled trial attorney who has dedicated his law career to defending the criminally accused. A strong litigator with significant courtroom experience, Eric has successfully tried numerous complex and difficult jury trials in state and federal courts.

Eric’s criminal practice involves a wide-ranging scope throughout Ohio and Kentucky in both state and federal courts. He is known not only as an impassioned trial attorney, but also as a thorough litigator of federal and state appeals, including habeas petitions.

Eric has been invited to speak throughout the country on a variety of criminal defense topics for the following organizations:

• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ 4^thAmendment Seminar in New York, New York
• The Colorado Public Defender Training Program in Denver, Colorado
• The Annual Ohio Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit in Dayton, Ohio
• The Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy’s Annual Conference
• The Green Mountain Juvenile and Criminal Defense Institute’s Annual Conference for the Vermont Defender General
• The Federal Criminal Practice Seminar in Cleveland, Ohio
• The Eastern District of Kentucky’s Annual Criminal Justice Act Panel Federal Practice Seminar in Lexington, Kentucky
• The Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Sex in the Spring Seminar in Columbus, Ohio.
• The Cincinnati Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Monthly Training Program
• The Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Annual Current Issues in Criminal Law Webinar
• Friends To the Indigent’s Annual Veteran’s Day Seminar in Cincinnati, Ohio
• The Hamilton County Public Defender Office’s New Lawyer Training Program

In addition to educating seasoned criminal practitioners at national conferences, Eric has dedicated much time to training new lawyers in Colorado, Kentucky, and Ohio. Due to Eric’s litigation in 4^th Amendment cases involving modern technology, he has recently been speaking to criminal defense audiences on current and future 4^th Amendment issues in the digital age.

Eric began his legal career in Denver, Colorado, working for the Office of the Colorado Public Defender, where he handled all levels of felony cases. He gained invaluable jury trial experience and received extensive criminal defense training from the Colorado Public Defender, whose training program is widely recognized as a national model.

Before joining Pinales Stachler, Eric moved back to his hometown of Cincinnati, and worked for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy in Covington, Kentucky. While working to defend the indigent accused, Eric gained a reputation among his clients and the legal community as a zealous advocate for his clients. Eric continued to hone his jury trial expertise on serious felony cases.

Eric graduated magna cum laude from The Ohio State University. He earned his J.D. from the University of Cincinnati, where he graduated summa cum laude and was elected to the Order of the Coif, an honorary scholastic society recognizing graduates who have attained a high grade of scholarship. He was also an Associate Member of the Cincinnati Law Review, an Articles Editor for the Human Rights Quarterly, and received a Rosenthal Institute for Justice Fellowship working for the Ohio Innocence Project.

Eric is licensed to practice law in Ohio and Kentucky.  He is also admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Ohio and the Eastern District of Kentucky and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.