The lead attorney behind Fort Myers Criminal Defense Lawyer is Robert Foley, and his resume runs in one direction before it reverses. He worked as an FBI agent. Then he served as an Assistant State Attorney, handling roughly 400 cases a year in that prosecutor role. A prosecutor moving 400 cases a year learns the machinery from the inside: where evidence breaks down, how charging decisions get made, which discovery requests land, and which plea offers hold genuine value versus institutional habit. Foley carried that knowledge across to the defense table, and the firm builds its entire hiring argument on it. The background sits at the front of the pitch, not buried in an attorney-page footer, so the claim is easy to test against what a former prosecutor would actually know.

Robert Foley's background as FBI agent and prosecutor

The practice operates as Foley and Wilson Law Firm, with offices in Fort Myers and Naples. Fort Myers Criminal Defense Lawyer has kept that prosecutorial history at the center of how it presents itself, and for a defendant trying to judge a firm cold, that focus is worth something. Most legal listings hand you a list of practice areas and a phone number. This one leads with a specific career arc and asks to be measured against it.

It covers both state and federal courts, which a local firm does not always do.

State court practice areas

On the state side, Fort Myers Criminal Defense Lawyer lists drug crimes, DUI, domestic violence, sex crimes, burglary and theft, violent crimes, white-collar offenses, juvenile crimes, gun violations, and probation violations. It also takes record sealing and expungement. That last item is one people usually look for late, after a closed case starts blocking a job or an apartment. A firm that follows the case from first charge through post-conviction cleanup stays useful through the long aftermath as well as the courtroom phase. Fort Myers Criminal Defense Lawyer covering that full arc means a client does not have to find a second attorney once the verdict is in and the record problems start. Record sealing and expungement are quiet work, but for someone whose past charge keeps surfacing on background checks, they often weigh as heavily as the original case.

Federal defense and pre-charge representation

Federal defense is a separate discipline, and the firm treats it as one. The federal list includes drug trafficking and conspiracy, cybercrime, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, and federal gun and sex crimes. It adds federal litigation, employee disciplinary defense, and pre-charge investigation representation. Pre-charge work is where the FBI background does the most specific job. Federal probes can run for months before anyone is charged, and a former agent who knows how an investigation gets assembled is a different kind of counsel during that stretch. Pre-charge representation, federal litigation, and employee disciplinary defense are not boilerplate items most local criminal firms advertise, so Fort Myers Criminal Defense Lawyer listing them reads as a deliberate match to Foley's background rather than a wide net.

Contact options and bilingual service

Reaching the firm is straightforward. Both the Fort Myers and Naples offices publish street addresses and direct phone lines, which is the floor a serious Southwest Florida criminal defense practice should clear. A contact form and a live chat option sit alongside the phones. The firm also serves clients in Spanish, a practical detail in a region with a large Spanish-speaking population. Its website carries attorney biography pages, so a visitor can read up on the people they would hire before calling. Between the two staffed offices, multiple contact channels, and published bios, Fort Myers Criminal Defense Lawyer leaves little of the basic vetting work for a client to dig up elsewhere.

Three facts anchor Fort Myers Criminal Defense Lawyer: a lead attorney who ran roughly 400 cases a year as a prosecutor before switching sides, a practice spanning state court, federal court, and pre-charge investigations, and bilingual service across two physical offices with published addresses. For this firm, those facts settle most of the question on their own. A federal pre-charge defense built on a former agent's experience is a specific, checkable claim, and it either fits the resume or it does not. Here it fits.

Client reviews across multiple platforms

The outside ratings line up with that. Fort Myers Criminal Defense Lawyer holds 256 reviews on Birdeye at a five-star average, and that volume does work the rating alone could not. At 256, an outlier or two does not move the aggregate, and a five-star average across that many entries points to a steady client experience. Avvo, the attorney-focused platform, hosts a profile with client reviews attached, though the exact total was not available in the sources checked. A Yelp listing exists for the Naples office, again without a confirmed count. The firm's own site runs a testimonials section with named client quotes, and named attribution beats anonymous praise. Taken together, the Birdeye showing and the on-site testimonials give Fort Myers Criminal Defense Lawyer a reputation record that points the same direction as its credentials.

Avvo profile information gap

One thing the listing does not resolve is the picture on Avvo. That is the platform built for legal reputation, and a defendant vetting a criminal attorney often opens it first for peer endorsements and case history. The Birdeye number is strong and the credentials stand on their own, but the Avvo total stays unclear, and that is the one corner of the record a prospective client would have to fill in directly with the platform.