Meet the Attorneys

Michelle Behan

Michelle Behan is an Honorably Discharged Veteran from the United States Navy and a former Special Agent with the FBI. Michelle is a board-certified DUI defense attorney, the co-chair of the Impaired Driving and Amicus Curiae committees for the National College for DUI Defense, and the State Delegate for the State of Arizona for NCDD. She is an associate member of the American Academy of Forensic Science and a member of the National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers DWI Committee.

Known nationally as Miss DUI Arizona, Michelle is a frequent lecturer on topics involving field sobriety testing, forensic science, and cross-examination techniques. Michelle also has significant appellate experience, including amicus curiae briefs to the Supreme Court of Arizona and the United States Supreme Court. She is a published author, a sought-after speaker, a Peloton devotee, the owner and president of The Behan Law Group and the founding member of The Lawyer’s Lounge. Michelle lives with her two sons, her Glock pistol, and the best dog in the whole wide ever in Tucson, Arizona.

Neil Halttunen

Neil is an Oregon criminal defense attorney and former certified DRE. During his law enforcement career, Neil made upwards of 750 DUII arrests and performed approximately 140 drug evaluations.

Neil participated in training new DREs during the practical portion of their training program. Neil is experienced in teaching other attorneys how to tackle both alcohol and drug DUII cases and is often called upon to answer questions by his colleagues. Neil has extensive experience training police recruits in law enforcement protocols including impaired driving procedures.

Amanda K. Riek

Amanda K. Riek is an associate at Chirafisi Law. Her practice focuses almost exclusively on criminal defense with an emphasis on high level felonies and OWI cases. Amanda graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Leadership with comprehensive honors in 2008 and from the University of Wisconsin Law School with a certificate in Criminal Law in 2011. She spent the previous decade serving Wisconsin as an Assistant State Public Defender primarily in Columbia County but also in Sauk and Dane County.

Amanda is a board member of the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (WACDL), a founding member of the WACDL Women's Caucus, a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), a member of the National College for DUI Defense (NCDD), and president of the Columbia County Bar Association. This coming year Amanda will serve on several national committees: co-chair of the NCDD's National Task Force Ethics Committee, the NCDD's National Task Force on Trial Advocacy, NACDL's Trial Penalty Committee, and a NCDD/NACDL Liason. In her spare time, Amanda travels nationally to play volleyball, loves to cook, enjoys domestic and international travel, and camps as often as she can.

Leah Housler

Leah Housler is an Associate Attorney at Tisdell Law Firm where she handles all criminal defense cases and specializes in DWI defense. Her passion for the legal field started young. In fact, when asked to pick a career to write an essay on, in the fourth grade, Leah wrote that she wanted to be an attorney when she grew up. An idea that, no doubt, grew from her Dad’s constant insistence that she could “argue with a fence post”. Her desire to help others, through proper legal representation, only grew as she continued her legal education and saw the injustices that occurred when people not educated in the law were faced with criminal cases. Leah grew up in a small town in Southern New Mexico and took the New Mexico bar exam, upon completion of law school in Arizona. Shortly after passing the New Mexico bar, she moved to Texas and completed the Texas bar exam. She is New Mexico, Texas, and Federally licensed.

In the evenings, you can find her in the gym or on the couch with a good book and her dogs. She is an avid Harry Potter fan, a lover of tattoos, and always planning her next big travel adventure.

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