Mr. Michael Hollingsworth has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Mr. Hollingsworth joins 21 fellow board of directors elected by the membership to serve rotating three-year terms. They represent Virginia’s 11 Congressional Districts and “are among the very best of Virginia’s Criminal Defense Lawyers,” according to the association.
He will represent the Northern Virginia Region which includes the 17th (Arlington), 18th (Alexandria), 19th (Fairfax, Fairfax City) and 31st (Prince William, Manassas) Judicial Districts.
VACDL is affiliated with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and its mission is “to improve the quality of justice in Virginia by seeking to ensure fairness and equality before the law.”
As a Criminal Defense Attorney at Nichols Zauzig, Mr. Hollingsworth has been named a Top Criminal Defense Lawyer by Northern Virginia Magazine, a Top 100 Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Association and a Client’s Choice by Avvo for consistently superior client ratings.
His experience has taken him through every level of Virginia’s court system and has involved defending a wide variety of felonies and misdemeanors. He has tried cases in the Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court, General District Court, and Circuit Court of virtually every county in Northern Virginia. Beyond trial work, Mr. Hollingsworth is also a skilled appellate lawyer, and has argued before both the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Virginia Court of Appeals.
