Law Office of Jonathan Bruce

Previous Law Firm Name

• Jonathan Bruce, Attorney at Law

Languages

• French
• Spanish
• Bulgarian
• German
• Russian

Law Firm Overview

Military Experience: U.S. Army (Infantry); stationed in Germany 

Summary of Qualifications:

• Have personally handled over seven hundred assigned criminal cases
  
  • Have personally litigated numerous jury trials, from jury selection to final arguments, with favorable results
  • Have personally conducted over five hundred preliminary hearings in felony cases
  • Have personally litigated over thirty juvenile and family court adjudicatory hearings
    
• Have successfully represented Hispanic clients in and out of court in Spanish; am able to communicate in several foreign languages
• Professional training and experience in:
  • general trial and plea negotiation practice, including evidence, examination and cross-examination, working with experts, opening and closing statements, interviewing clients and witnesses, bond and motion practice, preliminary hearings, etc.
  • juvenile hearing and plea negotiation practice, including working with parents, schools, truancy personnel, juvenile justice and social workers, etc.
  • specialized training in electronic evidence and white collar crime
    
• Have worked with juvenile appellate attorney in numerous successful appeals of district court judicial decisions
• Licensed to practice law in Connecticut and Kentucky
• Have completed lengthy research and writing projects resulting in master's thesis and doctoral dissertation
• Have written an article to be published in Yale Law School's Legal Affairs magazine

Commended as:

• "expedient," "polite," "skillful" and "tenacious" with "high ethical regard for the court system, counsel and clients" by prosecutor Craig Cox, Taylor County Attorney, Kentucky.
• "perfect" in work on federal capital habeas corpus petition by director of habeas corpus unit of Kentucky's Department of Public Advocacy
• "outstanding" in my work on a class action law suit with Robert Hannon, Esq.
• one of "hardest-working employees at firm" of Moskowitz & Nixdorf, LLP.
• "very good" in research project on law related to international enforcement of copyright and trademark judgments by Prof. Marc Greenberg, Golden Gate University Law School
• one with "enormous intellectual gifts" during doctoral work at University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Demonstrated self-motivation, discipline and desire to excel:

• Simultaneously worked full-time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria and earned a doctorate from the University of Sofia
• Published scholarly articles while a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley
• Attended basic and advanced mediation and negotiation training courses from expert mediators while in law school
• Have written an article to be published in Yale's "Legal Affairs" magazine

Areas of Practice

• Criminal Law
• DUI/DWI
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
• Workers' Compensation Law
• Immigration & Naturalization Law

Honors and Awards

• Doctorate, University of Sofia

Published Works

• "Management", Vol. 2, 1992
• "Philosophia", University of Sofia Press, Vol. IV, 1998
• "Becoming a Lawyer in the Blue Grass", Legal Affairs
• Journal of Cultural Resource

Classes and Seminars

• "What Do Insurance Law, Mediation and Hegel Have in Common?", Golden Gate University Law School, 2001
• "Legislative Histories of the Federal Arbitration Act and Other Law Related to Alternative Dispute Resolution", Golden Gate University Law School, 2001
• Lecturer, University of Sofia & Neofit Rilski University, Bulgaria, 1996 - 1998
• Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1993 - 1995

Pro Bono Activities

• Peace Corps Volunteer, Bulgaria
• Volunteer in Cincinnati Community Organizations

Representative Clients

• Hispanic Clients

West Practice Categories

Criminal Defense, DUI / DWI, Immigration, Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation