Overview:
Deandra M. Grant was included in the list of Super Lawyers® for 2011, 2012 and 2014. Super Lawyers® is an attorney rating service that is nationally recognized throughout the legal community. After performing exhaustive and rigorous research by an independent research team, they announce their list of highly capable, trustworthy and competent attorneys in Super Lawyers® Magazine and online. The list represents no more than 5% of the attorneys in Texas.
Attorney Grant was also AV® Preeminent ™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, which is the highest rating an attorney can achieve. She was given the AV® rating for her outstanding professional achievements in the field of DWI law and her contributions to the legal community.
Experience
Deandra Grant graduated in 1990 from Trinity University in San Antonio with a B.S. in Business Administration. She earned her law degree from the SMU School of Law and was licensed by the State Bar of Texas in 1993. Having spent her last year of law school as an intern with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, she began work there as an assistant district attorney in January 1994.
Deandra’s tenure as a prosecutor focused on DWI prosecution. In 1995, she founded her own firm and began defending citizens accused of DWI. She has practiced criminal law for 20 years and has represented hundreds of Texans charged with criminal offenses including DWI, violent felonies and sex crimes. As a former prosecutor, she knows firsthand how to counter the prosecutor’s evidence and strategy.
Operator and Testing Experience
Deandra has spent hundreds of hours in training courses and programs related to DWI defense. She has participated in numerous ”dosing” experiments in which people are given specific amounts of alcohol over certain time periods and then tested to see the effect of the alcohol on their mental and physical capabilities. She attended and successfully completed the operator certification course for the Intoxilyzer 5000, the breath-test machine used in Texas. She learned how to operate the machine and the science behind it. She also participated in experiments related to the inaccuracy of the machine.
Deandra has completed the certification course to administer standard field sobriety testing, the same National Highway Traffic Safety Administration training course that teaches police officers nationwide how to identify drunk drivers during traffic stops. She has also completed the SFST Instructor course and taught the SFST practitioner course to other attorneys. In 2008, she completed coursework in Atlanta, Georgia, on DWI forensic blood and urine testing.
In 2011 she completed a week-long course on forensic chromatography in Chicago at Axion Labs. At the conclusion she received a certificate from the American Chemical Society in forensic chromatography. In 2012 she became a member of both the American Chemical Society and the American Academy of Forensic Science. In addition she has been admitted to the University of Florida Master’s of Forensic Science program in the College of Pharmacy. Deandra is a national speaker and teacher on topics including trial skills, jury selection, cross examination, field sobriety tests and forensic breath and blood alcohol testing.
For a list of her recent speaking engagements, click here.
For her entire Curriculum Vitae (Resume’), click here .
Professional Organizations & Memberships
American Chemical Society
American Academy of Forensic Science
National College for DUI Defense
State Bar of Texas
College of the State Bar
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (2007-10 board member)
Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
Denton County Criminal Lawyers Association
Plano Bar Association
Dallas Bar Association (2007 Criminal Justice Committee chair)
American Association for Justice
Deandra has served as the moderator of the Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association online discussion group since 2005 and both founded and served as the moderator of the Texas DWI Defenders online discussion group since 2006.
The Law Offices of Deandra M. Grant, PC has a main office in Plano and a satellite office in Dallas. Deandra accepts DWI cases in Collin and Dallas counties including Plano, Dallas, Frisco, McKinney, Allen, Wylie, Garland, Mesquite Texas and the surrounding communities.