Aggressive legal defense for clients charged with crimes in Pennsylvania.

Reading, PA attorney James Polyak has more than 25 years of experience defending the rights of those charged with criminal offenses in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He specializes in criminal defense in the courts of Berks County. He is a graduate of Penn State University and Widener University School of Law. After law school, he completed his internship at The Berks County District Attorney's Office in Reading, PA in 1992, and was hired as an Assistant District Attorney, where he prosecuted crime...

Reading, PA attorney James Polyak has more than 25 years of experience defending the rights of those charged with criminal offenses in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He specializes in criminal defense in the courts of Berks County. He is a graduate of Penn State University and Widener University School of Law. After law school, he completed his internship at The Berks County District Attorney's Office in Reading, PA in 1992, and was hired as an Assistant District Attorney, where he prosecuted crimes including Homicide, Robbery, Rape, Burglary, Drug Possession, Theft, Assault and DUI. In 1994, he was promoted to Chief Prosecutor of the Child Abuse Unit of the District Attorney's Office. After gaining valuable experience as a prosecuting attorney in Reading, PA, Mr. Polyak left the District Attorney's Office to specialize in criminal defense. Since that time, he has represented thousands of clients charged with felony and misdemeanor crimes in Pennsylvania. He has been lead trial counsel in more than 100 criminal jury trials, including death penalty cases. He has never had a client sentenced to the death penalty. He appears frequently in United States District Court, handling complex federal criminal litigation. No other criminal defense attorney in Reading, PA has handled more criminal jury trials in United States District Court than Mr. Polyak. Since 1994, he has been a member of The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is a former Criminal Law Instructor at Reading Area Community College and the Reading Police Academy. He is the former Chairman of the Berks County Bar Association Criminal Law Committee.