Most people find us in the middle of something: a charge, a crash, a custody fight, a death in the family, a partner who stopped returning calls. Find your situation below. Every page tells you what actually happens next under Wyoming law, and every call is answered, day or night.
Not sure where you fit? That is what the first call is for.
Criminal Defense
The State has more resources than you do, and it starts building its case before you know there is one. Francis H. McVay was a Deputy County and Prosecuting Attorney in Park County before he moved to the defense side. He has built these cases, and he knows where they are weak.
- Criminal Defense. Misdemeanors and felonies in Laramie County and across Wyoming, from arrest through trial and appeal.
- DUI & Impaired Driving. A Wyoming DUI is two cases, and you have about 20 days to protect your license.
- Drug Possession. Constructive possession, search challenges, and first-offense deferral.
- Aggravated Assault. Self-defense, weapons, and the one word that makes a misdemeanor a felony.
- Theft, Shoplifting & Fraud. The $1,000 felony line, and how to avoid a conviction that reads as dishonesty.
- Domestic Battery. No-contact orders, the enhancement ladder, and the federal firearms consequence nobody mentions at arraignment.
- Probation Violations. A revocation is a hearing, and the judge still decides the response.
- Federal Crimes. Target letters, grand juries, sentencing, and Indian Country jurisdiction.
- NGMI & Title 25. The mental illness defense, competency, and civil commitment.
- Juvenile Delinquency. Juvenile court runs on different rules, and a child’s record is not a small thing.
- Appeals & Post-Conviction. A verdict is not always the end.
- Expungement & Restoration of Rights. Firearm rights, voting rights, and clearing a record that is still costing you work.
- Local pages: Gillette · Laramie
Personal Injury
Insurance companies are institutions, and institutions protect themselves first. Injury cases are handled on a contingency fee: no attorney’s fee unless we recover for you. How case costs are handled is explained in writing before you sign anything.
- Car & Truck Accidents. The 50% fault rule, Wyoming’s missing UIM requirement, and government-vehicle deadlines.
- Slip & Fall. The natural accumulation rule, explained honestly.
- Local page: Casper
Family Law & Fathers’ Rights
Wyoming law has no maternal presumption. Custody is decided on the best interests of the child, and a parent who shows up prepared is not fighting the statute.
- Fathers’ Rights. Custody, paternity, visitation, and modification. Parent-child equity is a founding commitment of this firm.
- Family Law. Divorce, custody, support, and the dissolution of a household.
- Enforcing Custody Orders. Orders to show cause and contempt, whether you are enforcing or answering.
- Abuse & Neglect. DFS involvement, dependency cases, and protecting a parent’s relationship with their child.
Protection Orders
These cases move fast, run on a lower burden of proof than a criminal case, and often run alongside one.
- Protection Orders. Seeking one or defending against one, for domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault, including harassment by a household member or anyone else.
Tribal Court
- Wind River Tribal Court · Tribal Court Practice. Tribal court practice and the federal jurisdiction questions that arise in Indian Country. Tribal Law certification.
Estates, Wills & Elder Law
- Probate. Small estates up to $400,000, out-of-state mineral owners, formal probate, and will contests.
- Trusts & Estates. Planning, administration, and the orderly transfer of what you have built.
- Wills. Drafting and review.
- Elder Law. Guardianship, capacity, care decisions, and protecting older adults from exploitation.
Business & Financial
- Business Law. Entity formation, operating agreements, and contracts.
- Wyoming Holding Companies. What the charging order protects, and what it does not.
- Registered Agent Service. A law firm that reads the lawsuit the day it arrives.
- Breach of Contract. Unpaid invoices, collapsed deals, and what you actually have to prove.
- Business Litigation. Owner disputes, freeze-outs, and dissolution.
- Bankruptcy. A structured path out from under debt that has stopped being survivable.
Why Deep Waters Law
Deep Waters Law stands between people and the institutions that have already decided something about them.
- Both chairs. Former Deputy County and Prosecuting Attorney, Park County, Wyoming: misdemeanors, felonies, juvenile, and Title 25.
- The Wyoming Supreme Court. Former Senior Assistant Appellate Counsel, Wyoming State Public Defender. Briefed and argued Walker v. State, 2022 WY 158, in which the Court reversed two convictions under plain-error review.
- Trial training. Graduate, Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College.
- DUI defense. Member, National College for DUI Defense.
- Tribal court. Wind River practice. Tribal Law certification.
- Reachable. Answered 24 hours a day, including weekends.
Mr. McVay briefed and argued Walker v. State as Senior Assistant Appellate Counsel for the Wyoming State Public Defender. The matter was not handled by Deep Waters Law, L.L.C. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome in any other matter.
Talk to a lawyer today
Not sure where your situation fits? That is what the first call is for.
Call (307) 333-7539. Answered 24/7, including weekends. Office hours Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closed noon to 1:00. Or request a free consultation.
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