Legal Services & Lawyers

An honors graduate of UC-Berkeley and Harvard Law School, Neil Shouse served five years as Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County. He prosecuted more than 60 criminal trials, and handled more than 1,000 evidentiary hearings. He earned a reputation as one of the toughest and most successful trial prosecutors, with an astounding 96% success rate in felony criminal jury trials to verdict.

As a trial prosecutor, Mr. Shouse's cases ranged from DUIs and drug charges to complex, high profile murders. He worked in close partnership with police, detectives, the California Highway Patrol, criminalists and fellow prosecutors.

Among his cases was the successful prosecution of Shadae Schmidt, a college student who shot and killed her mother and then staged a fake robbery scene. Shadae Schmidt was defended at the trial by Michael Jackson lawyer Thomas Messereau.

Mr. Shouse frequently speaks as a guest legal commentator on national television. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, Court TV, Fox News Channel and Public Television.

Prior to serving as a trial prosecutor, Mr. Shouse was a litigator for several of the nation's top law firms, including the global law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. In that role, he represented such clients as AT&T, Microsoft, Metropolitan Life, Western Union and KPMG.

Mark J Sullivan is the preeminent criminal defense lawyer in the Desert. He's one of only 12 Certified Criminal Law Specialists in all of Riverside County, and the only one in Palm Springs. In a poll conducted in a San Bernardino County District Attorneys office, he was chosen as the defense attorney that the prosecutors would have represent them if they were arrested. As the well-known Judge John J "Jack" Ryan, Jr. puts it, "Mr. Sullivan is the consummate professional. He is held in the highest regard by members of the Riverside County bench. He is well respected by the local prosecutors and defense bar. I have worked with and have had the opportunity to see several great attorneys in these past 35 years. Mr. Sullivan is the best I have seen in Riverside County - and he ranks with the best criminal defense attorneys I've ever seen anywhere." In a poll of prosecutors in a San Bernardino County District Attorney's office, Mr. Sullivan was voted the defense lawyer whom prosecutors would want to have represent them if they were ever in trouble with the law.