Derek E. Miller, Attorney: The Prosecutor-Turned-Defender Who Knows Both Sides of the Courtroom
When Derek E. Miller, attorney and founder of D. Miller Law P.C., tells a jury he understands how prosecutors think, he is not making a rhetorical point. He spent more than a decade on the other side of the aisle — first as an Assistant Prosecutor at the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office, then rising to Chief of Operations overseeing 60 attorneys and thousands of cases every year. That institutional knowledge is not just a marketing line. It is the foundation of how he practices law.