Robert McWhirter

Robert J. McWhirter has successfully tried over 100 criminal trials in Federal, state, and city courts. He is a nationally and internationally known speaker and author on trial advocacy, immigration law, and the history of the bill of rights and reconstruction amendments. He is a frequent guest on national news programs on current constitutional and immigration issues including MSNBC, FoxNews Live, Bloomberg News, Arizona Horizon and KJZZ. Mr. McWhirter is a Certified Specialist in Criminal Law. For over six years, Mr. McWhirter’s peers have elected him to serve on the Arizona State Bar Board of Governors. Mr. McWhirter has published extensively:  His latest book is FIXING THE FRAMERS’ FAILURE: THE 13TH, 14TH, AND 15TH AMENDMENTS AND AMERICA’S NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM (2022).  The American Bar Association has publish Mr. McWhirter’s book BILLS, QUILLS, AND STILLS: THE HISTORY OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS (2015).  The American Bar Association has published his books THE CRIMINAL LAWYER’S GUIDE TO IMMIGRATION LAW: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, 2nd Ed. 2006 and THE CITIZENSHIP FLOWCHART, 2007. In the 2010 United States Supreme Court case of Padilla v. Kentucky Justice Alito extensively quoted from his book.  Mr. McWhirter has served on the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section and on the Standard Committee writing the CRIMINAL JUSTICE STANDARDS.  Mr. McWhirter has had published over 40 other articles in both English and Spanish on the history of the Bill of Rights, immigration law, and criminal practice. Since 2009, Mr. McWhirter has been named a Southwest Super Lawyer. Mr. McWhirter is a 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient from Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Mr. McWhirter is a 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient from the Barrett Honors College. He received the Frank X. Gordon Award for Excellence in the Practice of Law, Mohave County Bar Association in 2013 and the Saint Thomas More Award, Saint Thomas More Society in 2010.