Phillip Weidner is the most principled attorney I have ever hired. I was indicted on marijuana and gun charges in the late nineties and was facing ninety nine years on nebulous conspiracy charges. I paid him a flat fee to defend me. After that he was my personal legal pitbull. He spent seven and a half years fighting every motion he filed, from AK Superior Court to AK Appellate Court to the AK Supreme Court. After exhausting state courts, every motion was filed through the Ninth circuit and then through the US Supreme Court. This was time consuming and costly to his firm. He never pressured me to take a plea, in fact he assured me that we needed to fight on. Remember, I’d already paid him up front. I dare say most attorneys would have encouraged me to cut a deal but for Phillip it wasn’t about what was best for his firm, it was about what was the best deal he could negotiate for me. The State went from offering me four years in prison, then two, and finally no time, just probation. If I would have declined that offer he would have happily taken my (weak) case to trail. I remember during my Evidentiary hearing the courtroom filled up with lawyers taking personal time to observe his cross examinations. He is a legend in the legal circles of this state. This man got me through a most difficult time in life. I will always be in his debt.