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Inside the Koplow Law Firm, founded by a former Maricopa County vehicular-crimes prosecutor who later worked in-house for Farmers Insurance defending auto-accident lawsuits before returning to defense-side DUI work.
The Koplow Law Firm — At a Glance
| FIRM | The Koplow Law Firm |
| FOUNDED | 2005, Phoenix — Lawrence Koplow (originally co-founded as Koplow & Patane) |
| FOUNDER’S BACKGROUND | J.D., University of Texas at Austin; former Maricopa County Attorney’s Office prosecutor, Vehicular Crimes Unit; former in-house counsel, Farmers Insurance |
| FOCUS | DUI and vehicular crime defense exclusively — misdemeanor and felony DUI, aggravated and extreme DUI, commercial-driver (CDL) DUI, vehicular homicide/assault |
| OFFICE | 2501 N. 7th St., Suite 120, Phoenix, AZ 85006 |
| CONTACT | arizonaduicenter.com |
Origin: Prosecutor, Insurance Counsel, Then Defense
Lawrence Koplow earned his J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin before beginning his legal career as a prosecutor with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, working specifically in its Vehicular Crimes Unit — the same unit that handles DUI-related homicide and serious-injury prosecutions. He then moved to in-house counsel for Farmers Insurance, where he defended civil lawsuits arising from automobile accidents, including cases stemming from DUI incidents. He founded his firm in 2005, initially as Koplow & Patane, which evolved into the current Koplow Law Firm. That prosecution-then-insurance-defense path is a genuinely unusual combination among the firms in this category, giving him exposure to both the criminal and civil sides of DUI-related litigation before he began representing defendants directly.
Practice Areas
The firm’s practice is limited to DUI and vehicular crime defense: misdemeanor, felony, extreme, and aggravated DUI; commercial driver’s license (CDL) DUI cases, which carry distinct disqualification consequences beyond the criminal penalty; and vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, and leaving-the-scene charges. Koplow is Of Counsel to the ASU Alumni Law Group at the Beus Center for Law and Society, where he supervises recent Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law graduates specifically in criminal and DUI defense — a teaching role that suggests standing in the local DUI defense bar beyond his own caseload.
Case Outcomes
Awesome Attorneys did not identify an itemized, dated case-results log for this firm. The firm’s own materials describe Koplow’s work as having “helped shape Arizona case law” and contributed to changes in how Arizona crime laboratories conduct testing procedures, though specific case citations for these claims were not published where Awesome Attorneys could independently verify them. Client and peer reviews describe successful outcomes in general terms — “knows the science of DUIs and the testing procedures,” from a fellow attorney’s review — without itemized case data.
Past-Results Disclaimer: General claims about legal impact are not a substitute for a case-specific track record. No past result guarantees a similar outcome in any future matter.
Client Voice
Reviews are strongly positive across the firm’s own site and third-party aggregators, notably including a review from another practicing DUI/criminal defense attorney who faced Koplow as opposing counsel while working as a prosecutor and described the state as knowing “they will have their hands full when Lawrence is on the case” — a peer assessment rather than a client one. Awesome Attorneys did not identify a pattern of unresolved negative reviews across the sources checked at the time of this profile’s compilation.
Community
Koplow’s Of Counsel role supervising new law graduates at the ASU Alumni Law Group is a genuine, documented form of mentorship within the legal community, distinct from a marketing claim. He also frequently lectures other attorneys nationally on DUI forensic science and constitutional issues in DUI enforcement, and has appeared as a guest on Phoenix’s KTAR Radio discussing DUI and vehicular crimes cases.
Recognition
Genuine, peer-reviewed credential: Koplow has been consistently selected to Southwest Super Lawyers in DUI/DWI defense, a peer-influenced, research-driven process selecting the top 5% of attorneys annually. In 2015, the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice (AACJ) — Arizona’s largest criminal defense bar organization — gave Koplow its first-ever “Outstanding Contribution to DUI Defense Award,” a genuine, one-time-per-recipient organizational honor rather than an annual marketing list. He is also a member (not stated as board-certified) of the National College for DUI Defense and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers — membership organizations, distinct from the NCDD’s separate board-certification credential that other firms in this category hold.
The Arizona Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information, not legal advice.
Arizona’s core DUI statute, A.R.S. § 28-1381, prohibits driving while impaired to the slightest degree or with a BAC of 0.08% or higher (0.04% for commercial drivers — relevant to the CDL cases this firm handles). A.R.S. § 28-1382 defines “Extreme DUI,” and A.R.S. § 28-1383 covers felony “Aggravated DUI.” Vehicular homicide and vehicular assault charges arising from a DUI incident are prosecuted separately, generally under Arizona’s homicide and aggravated assault statutes in Title 13, and carry substantially more severe penalties than the DUI charge alone.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Koplow’s genuine differentiator is the combination of prosecution, insurance-defense, and now criminal-defense experience specifically in vehicular cases — a three-sided view of DUI litigation that few firms in this category can claim, backed by a real Super Lawyers selection and a first-of-its-kind bar association award. The honest limitation: Awesome Attorneys could not independently verify the specific case-law and crime-lab-procedure claims the firm’s marketing makes, and as with several firms here, general experience claims outweigh itemized, dated case results. This is a strong fit for someone facing a serious vehicular-crimes charge (not just a standard DUI) where the firm’s forensic and civil-side background is most relevant.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched in August 2026 from arizonaduicenter.com, Super Lawyers, the National College for DUI Defense member directory, Lexinter, and Lawyer.com. Awesome Attorneys did not identify a competing “Koplow Law Firm” elsewhere that could create identity confusion. The Koplow Law Firm did not commission, review, or pay for this profile.
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