Chuck Strain's Office:
639 Main Street
(next door to the 5th/3rd Bank Theater at 7th Street)
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-2514
Ph. 513-621-2889
Fax 513-763-7704
www.DUIguy.us
DUIguy1@yahoo.com
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Chuck Strain is a solo-practice lawyer based in downtown Cincinnati. Since Ohio bar admission in 1981, he has focused on Ohio DUI law (exclusively since 1996). Although he travels to distant Ohio counties to represent DUI defendants, the bulk of his practice lies in Butler, Warren, Clermont, and Hamilton Counties.
Chuck is a frequent speaker on traffic law, ethics, and professionalism at seminars sponsored by the Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Greater Cincinnati Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Ohio State, Cincinnati, Clermont County, Butler County, and Warren County Bar Associations, the Lawyers' Club of Cincinnati, the Northeast Lawyers Club, and Lorman Education Systems.
Chuck regularly advises other lawyers on those subjects in courthouse hallways, on the phone, and on statewide email forums, including that of the Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He conceived--and has single-handedly taught--the Cincinnati Bar Association DUI Academy, a comprehensive course in Ohio DUI law. He has appeared on radio, on TV, and in print media discussing DUI law.
Chuck has completed two National Highway Transportation Safety Administration-approved courses in standardized field sobriety testing, including the instructor course. He also holds certificates from courses in the science, operation, maintenance, and repair of all three breath-testing machines approved in Ohio. (Those are the Intoxilyzer 8000, the Intoxilyzer 5000, and the BAC Datamaster.)
Chuck has attended every intensive summer session of the National College for DUI Defense at Harvard Law School since 2001, and he regularly attends other advanced DUI seminars across the nation. A member of the Ohio State Bar Association College every year since its inception in 1983, he earns as much as ten times the required continuing legal education credits each year.
Chuck is a sustaining member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, having served on numerous committees, currently including these seven: Ethics, Fee arbitration, Professionalism, Continuing Legal Education, Administration and Finance, Solo/Small Practice, and Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, where he serves on the traffic law committee. He is also a member of the National College for DUI Defense, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Greater Cincinnati Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Hamilton County Municipal Court Trial Lawyers Committee, and the Lawyers' Club of Cincinnati, where he has served on the executive committee or as trustee since 1987, including 1992, 2010, and 2011 as president.
Chuck was born in 1952 in Dayton, Ohio, where he attended public schools. Elected fraternity president and to the academic honorary society Phi Beta Kappa, he graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana with a BA in Philosophy in 1975. He served as a claims representative with the Social Security Administration in Cincinnati, while attending occasional courses in German and law at the University of Cincinnati.
Then Chuck moved to Columbus to attend the most competitive law school in Ohio. During law school he was a judicial intern for U.S. District Court Judge John D. Holschuh, a hearing officer in the Columbus City Attorney's Office, and a legal intern with the Ohio Attorney General's Office. He graduated in the top third of his class at The Ohio State University College of Law in 1981. After a backpack trip to Europe while awaiting bar exam results, he returned to Cincinnati and immediately opened his practice focused on DUI law.