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Martin S. Pinales
Of Counsel

Strauss & Troy
The Federal Reserve Building
150 East Fourth Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202

(513) 629-9485 - Phone
(513) 241-8259 - Fax
mspinales@strausstroy.com


Practice Areas
  • White Collar Criminal Defense
  • Federal & State Criminal Law
  • Federal & State Appeals
  • Grand Jury Practice


  • Education
  • University of Cincinnati (B.B.A. 1964)
  • Salmon P. Chase College of Law (J.D. 1968)


  • Bar Admissions
  • Ohio (1968)
  • U.S. District Courts: Southern District of Ohio, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern District of Kentucky, Western District of Kentucky, District of Hawaii, Western District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. Courts of Appeal: Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits
  • U.S. Tax Court
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • Professional Associations
  • Cincinnati, Ohio State and American Bar Associations
  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers: 1978-1985, 1993-present (Member, Board of Directors, Past President 2007)
  • Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers: 1988-1993 (Director)
  • Cincinnati Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers: 1992 (President), 1993 (Chairman of the Board)
  • Master, Inns of Court, Southern District of Ohio
  • Fellow, American Board of Criminal Lawyers


  • Community Involvement
  • Former Adjunct Professor, Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law - Trial Advocacy
  • Former Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati - White Collar Crime
  • Faculty, National Criminal Defense College, Mercer Law School
  • Lecturer, Commonwealth of Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy
  • Lecturer, Trial Practice Institute and the Public Defender Academy, Riverside and Orange County, California
  • Lecturer, Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy, California Western School of Law
  • Lecturer, Cardoza Law School - ITAP - Trial Advocacy


  • Publications
  • "Drugs and The Law," W.H. Anderson Co., 1972
  • "Cross Examination of Chemists in Narcotic and Marijuana Cases," Contemporary Drug Problems, Federal Legal Publications, 1983
  • Criminal Defense Techniques, Chapter 6, "Representing a Witness Before a Grand Jury," Matthew Bender, 1990
  • Federal Sentencing Guidelines, The Champion, June, 1992


  • Honors and Awards
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Criminal Defense), 1987 - present.
  • Listed in the National Directory of Criminal Lawyers.
  • Rate AV in Martindale-Hubbell.


  • Other
  • Co-Director of the "Strike Force" of the Lawyers Assistance Committee, NACDL
  • CJA Panel Advisor
  • Served on the U.S. Judicial Conference Defender Services Committee
  • Advisory Group for the Southern District of Ohio
  • United States District Court for the Civil Justice Reform Act
  • Practitioners Advisory Committee of the U.S. Sentencing Commission
  • Former Special Counsel for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals


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