Kobie A. Flowers

Kobie is a trial lawyer with more than twenty-five years of courtroom experience. He has handled complex cases in federal and state courts nationwide, as well as before military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. His practice spans criminal investigations, civil litigation, internal investigations, and trials. Recognized by his peers for his trial acumen, Kobie teaches trial lawyering to other lawyers across the country.

He began his career in the Attorney General’s Honors Program, where he served as a civil rights prosecutor. His work focused on prosecuting police brutality cases—widely regarded as one of the most challenging areas of federal criminal law—and he achieved a perfect record in those cases.

Following his time as a federal civil rights prosecutor, Kobie began defending people against federal prosecution as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Maryland. He won two-thirds of his trials, an impressive amount, and secured favorable pre-verdict results (including case dismissals) when trial was not his client's interest.

Kobie's lifelong commitment to ending Mass Incarceration led him to found Flowers Keller LLP. His work has spanned from trying the largest prosecution of federal correctional officers in the history of the Civil Rights Division to settling the largest wrongful conviction case in U.S. history—a case which was made into the critically acclaimed HBO documentary When a Witness Recants.