Damico & Stockstill

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Our Louisiana criminal defense practice provides aggressive and effective representation for individuals, corporate officers, and public officials in local, state, and federal courts.

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Louisiana Criminal Defense Lawyer
Respected • Aggressive • Experienced • Successful

Our Baton Rouge law firm provides high quality criminal defense representation for people throughout Louisiana. We handle felony and misdemeanor charges in state and federal courts. Our criminal defense practice offers clients the very competent representation of well-respected trial lawyers with over 50 years of combined experience. If you are facing serious charges, call Damico & Stockstill, Baton Rouge criminal defense lawyers, to discuss your case in a free initial consultation .
Experience.

After graduating from law school in 1979, firm founder, Thomas C. Damico, worked for 5 years as an assistant district Attorney for the East Baton Rouge Parish. In 1984, he left the prosecutor's office and began to apply his knowledge of criminal law in his own defense practice. Since then he has represented thousands of individuals, companies, and public officials. Our Attorney, Thomas C. Damico, is a hardworking advocate of defendant's rights and a lifelong student of the law. It is quickly apparent to clients and court officials that he enjoys criminal defense work and is very good at it. His success in state and federal cases has earned Mr. Damico a strong reputation among other defense Attorneys, prosecutors, and judges.

Brent Stockstill graduated from law school in 1989 and immediately began practicing as a prosecutor in the East Baton Rouge District Attorney's office. During the next 18 years of service in that position, Mr. Stockstill earned a reputation as a aggressive and successful trial lawyer. His performance in the job earned him the position of Section Chief in the District Attorney's office. As Section Chief he not only handled the most complicated and highly publicized cases in the section, but he was responsible for the training of other lawyers in the office as well as investigators and staff. It was that reputation, knowledge and experience that Mr. Stockstill had earned that caused Mr. Damico to seek him out for partnership in his firm. Mr. Damico needed an aggressive and experienced trial lawyer and sought to take the best one from the ranks of the District Attorney's office. The addition of Mr. Stockstill met that goal.

A Kansas native, Roberta Vath moved to Louisiana to pursue a college education. Roberta holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of New Orleans, and in 2012 graduated cum laude from LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. During her time at LSU, Roberta excelled academically, making the Chancellor’s list five of her six semesters. She has received two CALI awards for academic excellence in coursework: one for her work in Decedent’s Estates, and one for her authorship of an article on adult adoption for Family Law Seminar. Roberta spent a semester as an intern at the 19th JDC District Attorney’s Office, where she refined her legal research skills and learned courtroom procedure. The following semester, she interned at the 19th JDC Public Defender’s Office, where she drafted court filings and studied criminal procedure. Subsequent to her year of internships, Roberta was engaged as a law clerk with Damico and Stockstill. During her tenure as a clerk, Roberta drafted multiple appeals and applications for post-conviction relief, as well as preparing for entering the courtroom. Roberta practices criminal defense, criminal appeals, and family law. She believes that all people are entitled to the fullest protections of the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Louisiana, and vigorously defends these rights on behalf of her clients. At our firm, we handle drunk driving, drug offenses, and a wide range of state and federal crimes as well as white collar charges.