Attorneys at Law
LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE - 30 YEARS OF COMBINED EXPERIENCE
Practicing Law Throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia
Since 1998

CRIMINAL DEFENSE FOR IMMIGRANTS AND
EXPATRIATES
-FELONIES AND MISDEMEANORS IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS (TRIALS AND APPEALS)
-DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED / DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
-DRUG DEFENSE (ALL DRUGS, INCLUDING COCAINE, MARIJUANA, AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS)
- ALL VIOLENT CRIMES (INCLUDING MURDER, HOMICIDE, ROBBERY, RAPE, AND SEXUAL ASSAULT)
-WHITE COLLAR DEFENSE OF BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS
IMMIGRATION CRIMES (including unlawful re-entry, immigrant smuggling, and immigration fraud)
MARKS & KATZ - REPEATEDLY RECOGNIZED FOR ITS EXPERIENCE:
Listed in Martindale-Hubbell's® Bar Register of Pre-Eminent LawyersTM for Criminal Trial Practice and White Collar Crime.
Washingtonian Magazine's "Top Lawyers" (2004, Partner Jon Katz).
Repeated News Coverage of our Criminal Cases and Legal Views
Our Clients' Views - Click here. / More on our Experience - Click here.
THE NEWS TURNS TO JON KATZ AGAIN AND AGAIN FOR HIS CRIMINAL DEFENSE EXPERIENCE, INCLUDING:
FOX NEWS, LOCAL ABC NEWS, CTV CANADA, CNN RADIO, WMAL, WASHINGTON POST, BALTIMORE SUN, NATIONAL JOURNAL & WIRED.COM
(These news items covered our criminal defense partner Jon Katz's legal analyses of the Washington sniper trial, the Sami al-Arian trial, the Kobe Bryant trial, drug defense, child pornography defense, and obscenity defense; and Jon Katz's defense of the Plowshares case.)
Marks & Katz Appears on the O'Reilly Factor: January 25, 2006; rebroadcast during halftime on Super Bowl Sunday. Click here for the full interview, and here for more details.
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Rebroadcast courtesy Fox News
Based in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, Marks & Katz, LLC serves clients speaking a wide range of languages, many of whom are not United States citizens. In that spirit, we are a multilingual law firm serving immigrants' wide-ranging needs in criminal court and with immigration law. All attorneys and staff at Marks & Katz speak Spanish. In addition, partner Jay Marks speaks fluent Portuguese, and partner Jon Katz speaks fluent French. Jay and Jon are sensitive to the unique cultural aspects of multiple ethnic communities, together having spent time in multiple countries and continents around the globe and having spent substantial time with local overseas communities, including people from Central and South America, East Asia (including Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand), India and Pakistan, and Africa (including Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sierra Leone).
Partner Jay Marks is widely recognized in immigration law. Partner Jon Katz frequently defends non-citizens in criminal court, and is the Chair of the Immigration
Committee of the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association.
For criminal clients who are not United States citizens, we focus closely on minimizing adverse immigration impact from their criminal cases (click here). We provide caring, aggressive, creative and experienced criminal defense and immigration law services under one roof.
WE WELCOME YOUR INQUIRIES
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(301) 495-4300/FAX (301) 495-8815
justice@markskatz.com
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OUR LAW PARTNERS
(Admitted in MD/DC/IL, and the U.S. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit)). Se habla español. Se fala portugues.JONATHAN L. KATZ (Admitted in MD/DC/VA
state and federal courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court) Se habla español.On parle français.
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