Edward Loss

Law Offices of Edward A. Loss III limits its practice to the aggressive defense of the accused, impaired driver from Misdemeanor DUI cases to Vehicular Homicides. Mr. Loss is a tough, knowledgeable and experienced trial lawyer who has successfully handled hundreds of cases. Ed enjoys a national reputation as a DUI practitioner and has completed over 750 hours nationwide of advanced training pertaining exclusively to D.U.I. related matters. He has qualified as Class I Operator of the Intoxilyzer 5000 and GCI Field Collection Device pursuant to Arizona Department of Health Services Rule R9-14-406(A)(2) and is certified as a Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus / Field Sobriety Test Instructor. Ed is a 1983 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago where he served on the Law Review. After Law School he clerked for the Honorable George N. Leighton of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Ed is a member of the DUI Committee of Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a founding member of the Phoenix based Committee for Constitutional Enforcement of DUI Laws. That Committee first uncovered the fact that the State of Arizona was concealing and destroying calibration and quality assurance data for their Intoxilyzer 5000 breath testing devices. Ed was associate counsel in the case of State v. Hentges resulting in the suppression of over 1,300 breath test results on April 18, 2000. Ed was also the first one to discover that the state was using microbial contaminated blood swabs in the 1999 case of State v. Holovnia. These Microbes were actually capable of creating Ethyl Alcohol in the blood collection tube after the blood draw! Ed is a 32nd Degree Mason, a Knighted Member of the Order of Knights Templar and a Noble of the El Zaribah Shrine in Phoenix. GOOD LAWYERS AREN'T CHEAP AND CHEAP LAWYERS AREN'T GOOD!