As a Business Executive in Minnesota, What Happens if I’m Charged with a Crime?
As a business executive, you remember all of the years it has taken you to get to this place in your career. You remember the sacrifices for education, long hours, business obligations and time away from family in order to attain this position. You also know just how critical your hard fought reputation is inside and outside of your company. St. Paul based Board Certified Criminal Law Specialist Jack Rice Defense understands this too.
Our firm has frequently been called upon to represent business executives who are facing criminal charges. We are a Minnesota based comprehensive criminal defense firm that has extensive experience handling a broad range of criminal charges that can a have a unique impact upon business executives including:
Fraud;
Embezzlement;
Domestic Assault;
Violations of Orders for Protection;
Terroristic Threats;
Sexual Assault;
A variety of other charges that put your career at risk.
All of these charges can seriously impact your life. However, as a Business Executive, you may be held to a different standard, a higher standard, by your employer, your co-workers, your family, the community. You need a Business Executive Criminal Defense Attorney who can provide a tailor made strategy to address the special needs you face.
Business Executives face an additional challenge.
Anybody at all stages of their lives could face criminal charges. The ramifications of these can be difficult, even brutal. Jail or prison is always a possibility. Probation, treatment programs and a public conviction may be also be in the cards. However, for a Business Executive, you face an additional challenge. For you, the allegations themselves, let alone a conviction, may be enough to jettison a lifetime’s work, your career. How you handle it may mean everything. Jack Rice Defense gets this.
For business executives, because of the high profile nature of your job, the charge itself could be more than enough to result in you losing your position. Because your position almost certainly requires enormous trust, any fraud and theft allegations can be cataclysmic. Those are obvious concerns. What about the less obvious ones?
Let’s imagine crimes having nothing to do with the office. For some, there is a clause in your contract that allows your Employer to fire you simply based upon public behavior regardless of conviction. So, a domestic assault charge, a violation of an order for protection, allegations of a sex crime, even a DWI may be all it takes to have a lifetime’s works pulled out from underneath you. As you might imagine, because of this, the charges that a Business Executive faces need to be handled in a very specific and proactive way. Failure to handle these correctly and the criminal charge may be the least of your problems. For all of these reasons, it is critical to bring in a professional who understands the ramifications not just of the conviction itself but how that conviction can impact your career.
Call your Business Executive Criminal Defense Attorney today
If somebody has made an allegation against you, don’t wait. This is not a time to bluff or think you can talk your way out of it. If you have been called before supervisors, if the police have been called, or you are sitting in a room wondering what to do, you need a comprehensive defense strategy. Now is the time to bring in Jack Rice Defense.
You need to understand what is at stake and what this may mean for your future. We will sit down with you to better determine whether these may actually threaten your profession and the rest of your life. We understand and will explain the process and we can put our hard fought and proven experience to work for you. Contact Jack Rice Defense for a free consultation.