Tuesday October 6, 2026

2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. - Norfolk Courthouse First Floor Training Room

Free to NPBA members; $30 non-members

1 CLE hr

Overview: 

This CLE outline walks a DUI case from the moment of arrest through sentencing, organized the way a trial attorney actually encounters it: (I) the immediate administrative fallout of the arrest itself; (II) what defense counsel should investigate before discovery arrives; (III) how to mine body-camera and written discovery once it arrives; (IV) a four-step framework for analyzing any DUI case for trial; and (V) a sentencing and license-consequence matrix, offense by offense. A closing practice-notes section highlights where plea-negotiation leverage lives.

Areas of Law:  Criminal Defense

Course Title: "An overview of a DUI Case and Its Consequences"

Speaker: Stephen P. Pfeiffer, Partner, Wolcott Rivers Gates

Stephen P. Pfeiffer

Stephen P. Pfeiffer is a partner at Wolcott Rivers Gates, one of the oldest and largest law firms in Virginia Beach, where he has built a reputation throughout Hampton Roads as a go-to trial lawyer for DUI Defense. Over a nineteen-year career, he has personally tried thousands of DUI cases across Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, Suffolk, and the Eastern Shore.

Credentials

• J.D., Cum Laude, Regent University School of Law (2007); B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Carroll College (2004), in History and Political Science.
• Admitted to the Virginia State Bar; the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
• NHTSA-certified Instructor for DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing
• NHTSA-certified Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE)

Recognition

• AV Preeminent® rating from Martindale-Hubbell — the highest available peer-review rating for legal ability and ethics.
• Named to Virginia Business Magazine's “Legal Elite” and selected to the Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” list annually from 2012 through 2022.
• American Bar Association 2007 National Champion in Legal Negotiations.
• Coauthor, “The Legality of Search and Seizure in DUI Cases,” in the Inside the Minds series (Aspatore Books).
• Over 1000 5 Star Google Reviews and over 1000 5 Star AVVO reviews.

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