Michael Kruse

Michael A. Kruse, B. Com., LL.B. is a senior criminal defence lawyer with over 20 years of trial experience practicing in the area of impaired driving and criminal law. His practice is focused on defending individuals charged with impaired driving and other Criminal Code drinking and driving offences.

Mr. Kruse is a graduate of Queen's University (1984), where he received a degree in Business. He attended the University of Western Ontario where he received a Bachelor of Laws (1987) and he was called to the Ontario Bar as a Lawyer in 1989.

Upon his call to the Bar, he was an Assistant Crown Attorney with the Ministry of the Attorney General, in Windsor and Toronto for four years. During his employment as a criminal prosecutor, he gained extensive criminal trial experience including prosecuting 20 jury trials in the Superior Court of Justice and hundreds of trials in the Ontario Court of Justice in all areas of criminal law.

From the outset of his career as a Crown prosecutor, he took a special interest in impaired driving cases, which has carried over into his private practice.

Since entering private practice in 1993, Mr. Kruse has earned the respect of the public, his colleagues and judges throughout the province. He is widely known as a savvy, tactical, hard working and skilled drunk driving attorney. Mr. Kruse has an outstanding track record of winning impaired driving trials and other criminal cases over the last 20 years.

He is a member in good standing of the Law Society of Upper Canada and is a member of the Essex County Law Association and the Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association. He has been a lecturer and instructor for the Ontario Bar Admission Course for several years in the area of Criminal law.

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