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Attorney Profile
Mark P. Foster, Jr.
Mark Foster, Jr.
Charlotte
North Carolina (NC)
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Attorney Mark Foster is an experienced and respected criminal defense lawyer who focuses on felony defense in federal and state courts. During his 29 years of practice in North Carolina and California, as well as in the military, Mr. Foster has tried over 120 jury trials and hundreds of bench trials, has litigated hundreds of motions, and has handled dozens of appeals. As an active duty Marine Corps officer from 1984 to 1987, Mr. Foster served as a judge advocate representing Marines in court-martial trials. He then served in the Reserves until retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2004.
Mr. Foster has been practicing in Charlotte for more than 15 years and in that time has tried some of the most serious, lengthy and complex criminal trials in federal and state courts. He is a board-certified specialist in federal and state criminal law. Mr. Foster is admitted to practice in North Carolina, California, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, the Western, Eastern and Middle U.S. District Courts of North Carolina, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
About Mark Foster, Jr.
Law School: UCLA School of Law
Admitted: 1996, North Carolina
Professional Webpage: www.rsfmlaw.com/Attorneys/Mark-P-Foster-Jr.shtml
Special Licenses/Certifications:
- North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Federal and State Criminal Law, 2010
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Member, Criminal Justice Act Panel Attorney Selection Committee, Western District of North Carolina
- Member, Federal Bar Association
- Member, North Carolina Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Member, Mecklenburg County Bar Association
- Member, North Carolina Advocates for Justice
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
- U.S. District Court Middle District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court Western District of North Carolina
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
- Maryland
- California
- North Carolina
- Chairman, Mecklenburg County Bar Indigent Representation Committee, 2008
- Member, Board of Directors, Federal Defenders of Western North Carolina, Inc., 2010
Verdicts and Settlements:
- Acquittals in three separate federal criminal trials. , 2001
Educational Background:
- University of Southern California, A.B., Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude), Major: International Relations, 1978
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