Michael Tamou

Michael Tamou is a criminal defense attorney and the founder of Tamou Law Group, PLLC, with offices in Phoenix and Scottsdale. He defends people accused of crimes, and that is all he does. His practice centers on the cases that carry the most exposure: sex offense allegations and white collar prosecutions, along with DUI and DWI, domestic violence, drug charges, and felony traffic matters throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area and across Arizona.

Sex crime and white collar cases are their own kind of fight. They are built over months by detectives, forensic examiners, and financial investigators before the accused ever knows a file exists, and they arrive as thousands of pages of records, forensic downloads, spreadsheets, and interviews. Michael takes that record apart. He challenges how the interviews were conducted, how the digital evidence was collected and interpreted, how the numbers were characterized, and whether the State's theory survives contact with what the evidence actually shows. When outside experts are needed, he brings them in early rather than at the courthouse steps.

He takes on complex, high-exposure cases and prepares every one of them for trial. That is not posturing. Cases that are genuinely trial-ready are the ones that move, and the State negotiates differently with a lawyer who is ready to make it prove its case.

That work has drawn recognition from his peers. Michael has been selected to Super Lawyers and recognized by Elite Lawyers, honors based on peer evaluation and professional achievement rather than advertising.

He is licensed in Arizona and Missouri.