Federal Sentencing Attorney Alan Ellis

The Law Offices of Alan Ellis is a full-service sentencing and post-conviction law firm representing exclusively federal criminal defendants and inmates throughout the United States and abroad.

For 35 years, the firm has worked with defendants and inmates and consulted with many of the nation’s leading criminal defense attorneys to develop strategies that obtain the lowest possible sentence for clients, to be served at the best facility possible, with the greatest opportunity for early release.

Areas of concentration include:

• Plea negotiations.
• Sentencing representation and consultation.
• Prison designation, transfers, disciplinary matters, and other problems.
• Direct appeals in all circuits from conviction and sentence.
• Supreme Court practice.
• Rule 35 motions.
• Habeas corpus 2255 and 2241 petitions.
• International prisoner transfer treaty work for foreign inmates and Americans arrested abroad.
• Parole representation.

The firm has a national practice with regional offices in San Rafael (San Francisco) California and Ardmore (Philadelphia) Pennsylvania. Many of the firm’s federal sentencing and post-conviction attorneys have served as federal law clerks, and several are former law school professors. Affiliated with the firm are a mitigation specialist who is a forensic licensed clinical social worker, and a federal prison consultant formerly employed by the Bureau of Prisons.

Approximately one-third of my work comes to me from defense attorneys requesting my assistance on cases. Another third of my cases come to me from defendants, their family and friends wanting me to work with their attorneyes.  The remaining third come to me from defendants, inmates or their family and friends with requests for representation.  With increasing frequency, I am being called upon to consult and assist earlier on in the criminal defense process. This is due in no small part to the importance of plea-bargaining and the significant recognition that planning and preparation for sentencing and post-conviction remedies must not be relegated to the post-verdict or part-plea stage of the proceedings.