A Florida and Georgia attorney who reads the science the way the State hopes you won't — and who answers his own phone. Attorney at Law, Florida and Georgia.
Call 904-383-7448Graham W. Syfert, Esq., is a member of the Florida Bar (No. 39104, admitted 2007) and the Georgia Bar (admitted 2006), and has defended the accused across Northeast Florida since 2007. He focuses on criminal defense — felony and misdemeanor charges, DUI, traffic cases, and white-collar and computer crimes — with a particular focus on matters that turn on scientific evidence.
He is admitted to practice in Florida and Georgia and serves clients across Duval, Clay, Nassau, and St. Johns Counties. Reach him directly at 904-383-7448 or graham@syfert.com.
Mr. Syfert graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor's in Philosophy, focusing on ethics and religious studies, before earning his Juris Doctor from the Florida Coastal School of Law. His writing and research earned him a position as a staff editor of the Florida Coastal Law Review. He was admitted to the Georgia Bar in 2006 and the Florida Bar in 2007.
Mr. Syfert brings attention to detail and thoroughness to the difficult situations his clients face. His background in research and his ability to communicate make him an attorney clients can trust to work toward a positive result. He focuses on criminal defense and handles traffic tickets and white-collar matters as well, with particular attention to cases involving scientific evidence, including computer crimes.
Before becoming an attorney, Mr. Syfert owned a technology company in Jackson, Mississippi. That technical grounding shapes the way he approaches scientific evidence today. He is a member of the Technology Law Section of the Georgia Bar Association, the Young Lawyers Division and Solo Practitioners Division of the Florida Bar, and the Jacksonville Bar Association.
Graham has taught defensive strategies to attorneys throughout the state, and was selected to present legal-education courses for Law Review CLE and the National Business Institute. He has also taught attorneys for Sterling Education.
Graham is the author of forms that include a motion to quash, motion to dismiss, and incorporated affidavit designed to provide self-help to individuals targeted in the mass BitTorrent litigation brought by the US Copyright Group and the law firm of Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver. Mere weeks before Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver dismissed nearly 5,000 defendants. While the forms angered the plaintiff's lawyers, they were praised by judges, attorneys, media, and consumer advocates as examples of how ordinary people might defend themselves in such a lawsuit.
The youngest partner of a Jacksonville law firm focusing on representing businesses, Graham was lead attorney on a plaintiff's personal-injury case that led to a recovery of nearly a million dollars for one injured party in a multiple-injury accident. He formed Graham W. Syfert, Esq., P.A., and now focuses mainly on representing consumers. He has represented several religious organizations throughout Florida and Georgia through legal opinions, litigation and negotiation, and navigating media controversy. In 2009, Graham's twelve-page motion to dismiss a $1,000 traffic ticket changed the method of citation writing among Florida law enforcement. In 2010 alone, he secured a dismissal of a DUI, a dismissal of a felony sale of cannabis, a dismissal of a carjacking and kidnapping case, and various dismissals of traffic citations.
Graham was also the co-founder and title agent for a Jacksonville title company founded in 2006, and has represented many realtors and realty companies in civil litigation and before administrative boards on issues of commission disputes and ethics. He has represented both buyers and sellers in real estate transactions and has prepared complicated land trusts for investors, for land management, and for estate purposes.
Graham was born and raised in Illinois and attended Illinois State University before relocating to Florida to be closer to his family. His early interests in high school and college were in psychiatry, psychology, and journalism; he was an editor of the school newspaper and earned the rank of Eagle Scout at the age of 16.
Email graham@syfert.com. You can also find Graham on his Avvo profile, his personal blog, the criminal law blog, and through the news and articles that have covered his work.
The call is free and confidential. Whether it is a traffic citation or a felony, the sooner a defense begins, the more can be done. Graham W. Syfert answers his own phone.
Call 904-383-7448Graham W. Syfert, Esq., P.A. · Jacksonville, Florida
Serving Duval, Clay, Nassau, and St. Johns Counties