Baldwin County & Federal Criminal Defense
A charge is not a conviction. Patrick Prendergast began his career prosecuting cases in Baldwin County — he now spends all of it defending them. One attorney from the bond hearing to the last day in court, who learned how these cases are built from the other side of the courtroom.
Arrest calls answered after hours and on weekends.
Before you say anything
Most cases are damaged before an attorney is ever hired — in the back of a patrol car, in an interview room, on a recorded jail phone. Protect yourself first, then call.
Practice areas
This office does not take civil, family or general practice work. If you are charged with a crime in Baldwin County or in federal court, that is the whole job.
Driving and boating under the influence, breath and blood testing, implied-consent refusal hearings, and the administrative license case that runs alongside the criminal one.
Possession, paraphernalia, distribution and trafficking — including stops on I-10 and Highway 59 where the search itself is often the case.
Domestic violence in all degrees, harassment, menacing, and the protection-from-abuse orders that travel with them.
Theft of property, burglary, criminal mischief, receiving stolen property, and fraudulent-use cases built on card and account records.
Unlawful possession, carrying without a permit, and firearm enhancements attached to an underlying charge.
Cases brought in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, where the procedure, the discovery timeline and the sentencing guidelines all work differently than they do down the hall in state court.
Where this office appears
Baldwin County top to bottom — circuit, district and every municipal court on the Eastern Shore and down to the beach — plus federal court in Mobile.
Circuit & District Court, Bay Minette
Twelve cities across Baldwin County
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama
The attorney
Patrick Prendergast cut his teeth trying cases as a prosecutor in Baldwin County, learning criminal law from the other side of the courtroom — how a charge gets built, which ones hold up under pressure, and where they come apart.
He has spent his career since then doing one thing. Where many lawyers take whatever walks through the door, his entire practice is criminal defense — the same courts, the same prosecutors, the same judges, week after week.
What that means for a client is relentless advocacy and direct access to the attorney actually handling the case. Not an intake coordinator, not an associate you meet on the courthouse steps. The lawyer you hired.
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