Richard Kuniansky

Richard Kuniansky was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1953.

He received his preparatory education at the University of Georgia, where he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance. He received his J.D. degree from Emory University School of Law, where he graduated Order of-the Coif in 1978.

Since his graduation, Mr. Kuniansky has been involved exclusively in trial work. From 1978 to 1980, Mr. Kuniansky was a prosecutor for the State of Georgia. He then became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta) and a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida (Miami) assigned to the Presidential Drug Task Force. After prosecuting primarily white collar criminal cases and drug cases for the Department of Justice for over seven years, Mr. Kuniansky left government service to join the law firm of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams and Martin, where he spent the next five years engaged in litigation practice with heavy emphasis in criminal tax litigation and commercial litigation: Mr. Kuniansky then formed his own firm.

Mr. Kuniansky is Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is a lifetime member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, Federal Bar Association and Houston Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, United States Tax Court, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. He is also licensed to practice law in both Texas and Georgia (inactive status).

Mr. Kuniansky has been awarded an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell and was named a Texas Super Lawyer in 2004, 2020 to 2023. Mr. Kuniansky has lectured at various legal seminars.

Mr. Kuniansky is a trial lawyer, Mr. Kuniansky tried his first jury trial within a week of graduating from law school. He spent the next two years as a trial attorney for the State of Georgia. He then became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta) and a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Presidential Drug Task Force in the Southern District of Florida (Miami). During his seven years with the Department of Justice, Mr. Kuniansky prosecuted several of the largest cases in the country, including a major conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act by transporting hundreds of millions of dollars of Lockheed Aircraft and Midair refueling equipment to Mohamar Kadafi’s Air Force; and the largest bribery case in the history of the IRS. Mr. Kuniansky then spent the next five years with a large law firm specializing in defending criminal tax cases. Mr. Kuniansky is a specialist in White Collar Crimes Criminal Defense in Federal Court.

With nine years prosecution experience, and 36 years defense experience, Mr. Kuniansky has the experience to achieve results that are matched by few attorneys in his field. Mr. Kuniansky believes that the most successful defense is comprised of a combination of elements. First, the attorney must have a thorough understanding of how the Government intends to prove its case. Second, the attorney must thoroughly prepare his case by investigating all of the facts as well as the applicable law. Third, the attorney must have the trial skills necessary to present this defense in the most forceful and successful manner possible. Mr. Kuniansky’s experience and hard work ethic allows him to combine all of these elements in successfully defending his clients.