28-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Wall Street Journal
How a Lawyer in the Hamptons Became the King of DWI Cases
EDWARD BURKE JR. spends most of the year handling drug cases, traffic offenses, larceny and white-collar crime. But during the summer, when this criminal defense lawyer's stretch of eastern Long Island turns into a playground for the rich, his focus is on clients arrested for driving while intoxicated—an offense he calls a 'Deewee.'
'It is,' he says, 'the 'it' charge.'
