NATIONAL CRIMINAL DEFENSE COLLEGE FACULTY

Kobie Flowers

Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP
Work 1300 Eye Street, NW Washington DC 20005 TPI Attendance: July, 2009
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Biography

Kobie is a trial lawyer, with over twenty years of courtroom experience. Kobie has litigated cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States and internationally in the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay.

His first-chair trial experience in building cases for the government as a federal civil rights prosecutor and in fighting the government’s efforts as an assistant federal public defender provides him with an uncommon insight into trial practice. Kobie typically represents high-profile clients in high-stakes criminal investigations, civil litigation, internal investigations, or trials. In his lifelong effort to end mass incarceration and police brutality, Kobie also represents the wrongfully convicted and sues police departments. Recognized by his peers for his trial acumen, Kobie teaches the art and science of trial lawyering to other trial lawyers around the country.

As a member of the Attorney General’s Honors Program, Kobie was a civil rights prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice for over four years. He specialized in the prosecution of police brutality cases. Kobie was one of the prosecutors who successfully tried the largest case against federal correctional officers in the history of the Civil Rights Division. For that effort, he earned the Civil Rights Division’s Special Commendation for Outstanding Service. Kobie never lost a case as a federal civil rights prosecutor.

After his tenure as a federal civil rights prosecutor, Kobie sought out the challenge of defending against federal prosecutions as an Assistant Federal Public Defender. As an AFPD, Kobie successfully represented clients charged with federal felonies. Kobie won two-thirds of his trials. When trial was not in the client’s best interest, Kobie navigated through the demands of the government and obtained numerous favorable, pre-verdict outcomes for his clients, including dismissals of cases.

Kobie has consistently been recognized as a top lawyer by publications like, Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, Lawdragon, and Washingtonian, as well as by leading organizations like the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He graduated from Stanford University and Georgetown Law.

Before starting his legal career, Kobie served in the United States Peace Corps.

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