Ms Josephine P Hallam

About Ms Josephine P Hallam

<p> Josephine Pesaresi Hallam has been on the front line of the criminal justice system throughout her 23 year career. Hallam Law Group handles criminal law matters, as well as family law and personal injury cases. Mis. Hallam's personal, primary focus is on high level felony representation: murder, aggravated assault dangerous, sex crimes, sex crimes against children, drug sales and trafficking. In 2019 alone, Ms. Hallam tried five jury trials where her clients faced life in prison as their sentence.<br /> Ms.Hallam began working for the Public Defender&rsquo;s office while still a law student in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. After graduating law school, Ms. Hallam moved to Arizona and first joined the <a href="https://www.maricopa.gov/558/Public-Defender">Maricopa County Public Defender</a>&rsquo;s office in 1997. After two years as a trial attorney at the Public Defender&rsquo;s office, Ms. Hallam left to raise a family; however, she remained active in the legal community by volunteering as a supervising attorney at the Arizona Justice Project where she worked with teams of law students on Post-Conviction Relief Petitions for prisoners who were innocent or wrongfully convicted.</p> <p> Upon returning to the full-time practice of law, Ms. Hallam rejoined the Maricopa Public Defender&rsquo;s office as a Trial Attorney, where she first and second-chaired felony trials, ranging from drug sales to murders. Routinely managing a felony caseload representing more than 35 indigent defendants in active litigation, with charges that included homicides, sex crimes, child abuse, dangerous crimes, aggravated assaults, drug sales and trafficking. She has extensive experience handling trials, evidentiary hearings, plea negotiations, jury selection, and oral arguments; conducting discovery analysis, legal research, investigation, and witness interviews; and writing motions and other legal pleadings. Ms. Hallam was named Team Leader of her trial group, and then was assigned as a trial group supervisor, in charge of supervising 15 attorneys and their cases. While at the Public Defender&rsquo;s Office, Ms. Hallam taught new attorney training classes and taught <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/cle.html">Continuing Legal Education</a> classes at the Statewide Arizona Public Defender Association (APDA) Conference.</p> <p> Hallam Law Group attorneys enjoy amazing success in gaining dismissals, not guilty verdicts, outstanding plea offers, and favorable case outcomes for our clients. We pride ourselves on being experienced, aggressive, but also compassionate. We truly care about our clients and their families. A hallmark of our practice is our accessibility to our clients. </p>

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• Law School: U of North Carolina

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