Richard A. Kempaner

An Associate of Price and Flowers Law Firm, P.C. Richard A. Kempaner has been practicing law for over 30 years.

He graduated from the University of Alabama Law School in 1962 with his Juris Docorate where he had also received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science in 1960. He later attended the George Washington Graduate School of Public Law where he graduated in 1968.

Mr. Kempaner is licensed with the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Criminal Appeals, the U.S. District Court and the District of Columbia. He has attended numerous seminars and short courses in specialized areas of criminal law with an emphasis on driving under the influence litigation. His criminal law practice includes extensive inquiry into probable cause aspects of detentions, searches and seizures, every felony and misdemeanor charge contemplated by the State Criminal Code and municipal ordinances from bond setting, preliminary hearings, indictments, sufficiency hearing, plea bargaining, trials, appeals, and new trials. This includes minor felonies and misdemeanors up through capital murder, rape, arson, robbery and DUI. Mr. Kempaner has routinely handled exclusionary hearings (identification, search and seizure,confession, diminished capacity, forensic); as well as preliminary (probable cause) hearings, jury and bench trials and appeals and administrative hearings and appeals. His Federal Law experience is centered around drugs, kidnapping, robbery, fraud, stolen motor vehicles (interstate), impersonation, extortion and conspiracy, Army Court Martial, murder, drugs, procurement fraud, driving under the influence. For the last four years, his practice has been limited to criminal charges and driver’s license suspensions/revocations involving alcohol and other substances causing impairment. Mr. Kempaner is a former temporary District and Municipal Court judge. He is also a United States Veteran serving in the Korean War and trained infantry troops to serve in the Vietnam War.