Mr. Drew Findling

The Findling Law Firm PC

Drew Findling is the founding partner of The Findling Law Firm, P.C., based in Atlanta, Georgia.  Drew spent his first three years as a Fulton County public defender. As a public defender, Drew tried and won acquittals in many cases, but most noteworthy, Drew was the first attorney in the nation to successfully employ that battered women’s syndrome defense based exclusively on verbal abuse. After three years, Drew brought his courtroom skills to private practice. Consistently since 2018, The Hollywood Reporter has listed him as a Power Lawyer and a Top 20 Troubleshooter. In 2024 and 2025, Forbes Magazine named Drew to their list of the Top 200 Lawyers in America – one of only five criminal defense lawyers listed in the country and the only criminal defense lawyer to appear on the list for consecutive years. Drew has been the subject of featured profiles in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair,  XXL, Forbes, BBC, The New Yorker, The National Law Journal, The Daily Report, Law 360, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Washington Times, New York Post, Sky Sports, Axios, Fast Company, Bloomberg News, and The Times (UK). Drew has been the subject of television and social media profiles that include CBS’ Face the Nation, CNN, MSNBC, VICE News, VLADTV, DJ Akademiks, and The School of Hard Knocks.

Drew’s clients include musicians Cardi B, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, YNW Melly, Lil Nas X, Faith Evans, Rod Wave, Offset, Quavo, Glorilla, NBA Young Boy, Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, the late Young Dolph, and the late Takeoff from the group Migos, Trippie Redd, Boosie, YFN Lucci, and DaBaby; actor and comedians Katt Williams, Tiffany Haddish, and Mike Epps; and athletes such as Dennis Rodman, Shaquille O'Neal, Joshua Primo, Trent Brown, Montrezl Harrell and Alvin Kamara.

In recent years, Drew has crisscrossed the nation litigating and trying some of the nation’s biggest criminal cases. In 2013, he won a 28-count clean sweep, not guilty verdict in the RICO trial of Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill. To date, this is the largest scale political RICO & public corruption acquittal in Georgia history. For his efforts, Drew was awarded the 2013 NAACP Civil and Human Rights Award. In 2018, on the eve of trial, he defeated the Department of Justice in South Carolina on the complex issue of applicability of the War Time Exemption of the Statute of Limitations resulting in a complete dismissal in a decades long Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation. In 2018, he won a not guilty verdict in a Murphy, North Carolina murder trial that was considered locally the biggest criminal case in twenty-five years in Western North Carolina. In that case, of interest to this audience, Drew represented a woman charged with murdering her lawyer husband while vacationing in their mountain home.

In 2023, Drew and his law firm handed the Department of Justice one of its biggest setbacks, in what the IRS has labeled the most complex tax subject matters in the Revised Code, “duty drawback.” He won a complete sweep not guilty verdict in a federal San Francisco international money laundering case involving in excess of $40 million in an alleged shipping fraud. In 2024,  After just shy of one month of jury selection in Fulton County, Rayshawn Bennett, who performs as “YFN Lucci,” and after three and half years of litigation, he successfully had all murder and RICO charges dismissed against YFN Lucci with zero cooperation with an agreed upon letter from the District Attorney of Fulton County that YFN Lucci be released at the earliest determined release date. YFN Lucci went from looking at a life sentence to selling out State Farm Arena a few weeks ago.

While Drew has built a formidable five-person criminal defense firm, because of his excellent record of trial successes, he is consistently requested to try civil cases. In 2019, Drew successfully defended Andrew Young, III, son of former Atlanta Mayor and civil rights icon Ambassador Andrew Young, in a jury trial involving the sale of Bounce TV to Script Media. In 2022, Drew successfully defended Jonathan Kirk, who performs as the “DaBaby,” in a jury trial in the Southern District of Florida receiving a defensive verdict and Rule 11 sanctions which will require the reimbursement of a substantial amount of  DaBaby’s attorneys fees by the plaintiff’s attorney.

This coming January, Drew will represent Durk Banks, who performs as “Lil Durk,” in his federal conspiracy to commit murder case in Los Angeles. And in January 2027, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Drew will try the death penalty case of Jamell Demons, who performs as “YNW Melly”  In late 2025, Drew anticipates trying a lawsuit, in which he represents the plaintiff in the case of a high school football player who suffered a catastrophic injury five years ago in a high school football game.