Robert G. Wells is a federal and state criminal defense jury trial lawyer and practitioner with
nearly forty-five years of experience in the United States District Courts, the Second Circuit
Court of Appeals, as well as all levels of New York State Courts. He was trained at Gerry
Spence’s Trial Lawyers College. He is a Past President of the New York State Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is a member of the NYSACDL Board of Directors and the
NYSACDL Strike Force defending criminal defense trial attorneys. He has acted as an instructor
for the United States Courts teaching lawyers in San Francisco, Dallas, Los Angeles, Portland,
Chicago, and Atlanta among other venues. He has taught on matters ranging from Sentencing,
Direct Examination and Cross Examination, and all facets of jury trial practice. He has
instructed for the FBI and the Board of Fraud Examiners. He has taught for the New York State
Bar Association on trial practice. He is a guest lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law.
He has served as a legal commentator on CourtTV, and a legal analyst and guest on the
nationally broadcast legal radio program “Equal Footing.” Mr. Wells is also published in “Atticus
Magazine” and in “Warrior”, the Trial Lawyers College Magazine. He is a member of the
Federal Court Bar Association of the Northern District of New York, National Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers, the New York State Bar Association, and is a lifetime member of the
New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and their Board of Directors. He
serves as the Criminal Justice Act Representative for the United States District Court for
Northern District of New York, as well acting as an advisor to pro se litigants in federal courts in
the Northern District of New York and for the Federal court Bar Association of the
Northern District.