Atty. Kobie Flowers
Kobie is a trial lawyer with over twenty-five years of experience. He has litigated cases in federal and state courts across the United States and in the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay.
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Kobie Flowers is a criminal defense and white collar attorney based in Washington, District of Columbia, practicing at Flowers Keller LLP. Admitted to practice in New Jersey, New Jersey State Bar Association, Maryland, Maryland State Bar Association, and District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar. Educated at Georgetown University (J.D., 2000) and Stanford University (B.A., 1994). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Criminal Defense: General Practice (2026), Best Lawyers in America — Criminal Defense: White-Collar (2026), and Best Lawyers in America — Awards: (2026). Serands clients in Washington, DC and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Kobie is a trial lawyer with over twenty-five years of experience
- He has litigated cases in federal and state courts across the United States and in the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay
- He represents clients in high-stakes criminal investigations, civil litigation, internal investigations, and trials
- Kobie also teaches trial lawyering to lawyers nationwide
- He began his career in the Attorney General’s Honors Program, serving as a civil rights prosecutor
- There, he specialized in prosecuting police brutality cases, some of the hardest cases to prosecute, and he never lost once
- Kobie later served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Maryland, where he represented individuals facing federal prosecution
- He won two-thirds of his trials, an impressively high number, and obtained favorable pre-verdict results when trial was not his client's interest
- Founding Flowers Keller LLP is the capstone of Kobie’s lifelong commitment to ending Mass Incarceration
- In 2003, Kobie was one of the prosecutors who successfully tried the largest prosecution of federal correctional officers in the history of the Civil Rights Division
- By 2023, he spearheaded the settlement of the largest wrongful conviction case in U.S. history—a case which was made into the critically acclaimed HBO documentary When a Witness Recants
- This history of fighting to end Mass Incarceration is what Kobie brings to his advocacy for the wrongly accused and the wrongly convicted
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Why local counsel matters in District of Columbia
Practicing law in District of Columbia. Legal matters in District of Columbia are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantive law. Cases originating in Washington are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate District of Columbia state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in District of Columbia brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantive law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in District of Columbia courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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