L and L Law Group, PLLC represents clients across Collin County, Texas on the full Texas Penal Code and Health & Safety Code spectrum. Cases are filed in the Russell A. Steindam Courts Building, 2100 Bloomdale Road, McKinney, and prosecuted by the Collin County Criminal District Attorney’s Office. Co-founding partners Reggie London (Texas Bar No. 24043514, former Dallas County ADA) and Njeri London (Texas Bar No. 24043266) handle every retained matter personally. Free 24/7 consultation: (972) 370-5060.
Collin County criminal-justice infrastructure
Collin County anchors the northern edge of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and recorded 1,064,465 residents at the 2020 census, with U.S. Census Bureau estimates placing it near 1.25 million by 2024 — among the fastest-growing counties in the state. It spans roughly 886 square miles, and its population is concentrated in a band of affluent suburbs: Plano (285,494), Frisco (200,509), the county seat McKinney (195,308), Allen (104,627), Wylie (57,526), and Prosper (30,174), against a countywide median household income near $124,000. That combination of high household income, heavy commuter traffic, and rapid growth produces a criminal docket weighted toward DWI, drug, theft, assault, and family-violence filings rather than the offense profile of a dense urban core.
All criminal business is centralized in the county seat. Felony and misdemeanor cases alike are filed at the Collin County Courthouse — the Russell A. Steindam Courts Building — at 2100 Bloomdale Road, McKinney, TX 75071, and prosecuted by the Collin County Criminal District Attorney’s Office at 2100 Bloomdale Road, Suite 100. Collin County does not split criminal work between a district attorney and a separate county attorney; its Criminal District Attorney carries the entire caseload — felonies through the district courts and misdemeanors through the county courts at law.
The bench is deep for a suburban county. Collin County seats 15 state district courts (the 199th, 219th, 296th, 366th, 380th, 401st, 416th, 417th, 429th, 468th, 469th, 470th, 471st, 493rd, and 494th), which carry felony criminal cases alongside civil and family matters, plus 7 county courts at law that handle misdemeanors, Class C appeals, mental-health, and probate dockets. Every one of those courts convenes at the Bloomdale Road complex, so counsel, prosecutors, and defendants operate inside a single McKinney courthouse rather than across scattered satellite locations.
Services for Collin County clients
L and L Law Group provides four primary service categories for Collin County criminal matters. Each has a dedicated information page with the full defense workflow:
Practice areas covered in Collin County
The firm handles the full charge spectrum in Collin County. The most common case categories filed in the Russell A. Steindam Courts Building, 2100 Bloomdale Road, McKinney:
- DWI and intoxication offenses — Tex. Penal Code Ch. 49. First offense Class B (BAC under 0.15), Class A (BAC 0.15+), felony DWI (third offense or with child passenger), intoxication assault, intoxication manslaughter. See our DWI defense page.
- Drug crimes — Tex. Health & Safety Code Ch. 481. Penalty Group 1, 1-A, 1-B, 2, 2-A, 3, 4 across possession, possession with intent, manufacture, and delivery. See our drug defense page.
- Family violence and protective orders — Tex. Penal Code §§ 22.01, 25.07, 25.11. Class A family-violence assault, continuous family violence felony, violations of protective orders. Federal Lautenberg firearm-ban consequences under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9). See our family-violence page.
- Sex crimes — Tex. Penal Code Ch. 21-22 plus § 33.021. Sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, indecency, child-pornography, online solicitation. Federal Adam Walsh SORNA registration cross-reference. See our sex-crimes page.
- Weapons charges — Tex. Penal Code Ch. 46 + federal 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). UCW, felon-in-possession, prohibited weapons, weapon transfer. See our weapons page.
- White collar and fraud — Tex. Penal Code Ch. 31-34. Theft, fraud, embezzlement, money laundering. See our white-collar page.
- Federal charges — TXND and TXED indictments. Pre-indictment negotiation, Guidelines sentencing, safety-valve and 5K1.1 departures. See our federal defense page.
- Juvenile cases — Tex. Family Code Title 3. § 54.02 transfer-to-adult-court opposition, juvenile-record sealing, juvenile sex-offense conditional registration. See our juvenile defense page.
- Expunction and non-disclosure — Tex. Code Crim. Proc. ch. 55 + Tex. Gov’t Code ch. 411. Eligibility analysis, petition drafting, agency-service distribution, post-order compliance. See our expunction page.
Why retain L and L Law Group for a Collin County matter
Three operational reasons. First, direct attorney access: every retained matter is handled by Reggie or Njeri London personally — no intake clerk, no junior associate handoff. The partner who takes the consultation is the partner who appears at every hearing. Second, flat-fee structure: engagement fees are quoted in writing at the free initial consult and cover the entire defense through final disposition or trial in chief. Hourly billing in criminal defense creates the wrong incentives because the State controls the case pace. Third, dual prosecutor-and-defense perspective: Reggie’s prior service as a Dallas County Assistant District Attorney informs the firm’s reading of probable-cause affidavits, plea-evaluation thresholds, and trial-preparation escalation. Njeri’s federal admissions (TXND, TXED, 5th Circuit) and motion-practice depth complete the framework.
Proximity matters on a Collin County case. Our office sits on Preston Road (State Highway 289) in Frisco — itself a Collin County city — a short drive south of the McKinney courthouse where every setting is held, so we can appear on short notice for magistration follow-ups, bond hearings, and docket resets without the travel lag a downtown-Dallas firm carries into a Collin County matter.
The firm is in Frisco; Collin County is in our default coverage area. Office at 5899 Preston Rd, Suite 101, Frisco, TX 75034. Phone (972) 370-5060 24/7. Email info@landllawgroup.com.
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Call (972) 370-5060Inside the Collin County criminal-justice system
A Collin County case runs on a predictable sequence. After an arrest, the accused is booked into the Collin County Detention Facility at 4300 Community Avenue, McKinney — the jail operated by the Collin County Sheriff’s Office — and then brought before the county’s Magistrate Court, generally within about 24 to 48 hours. The magistrate advises the defendant of the charges and of the right to counsel, decides whether probable cause supports the arrest, and sets the initial bond under Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 17.15. Only after magistration does the file route to a trial court.
Routing follows offense level. Felonies are assigned to one of the county’s 15 district courts; misdemeanors — the category that captures most first- and second-offense DWI, theft, and simple-assault cases — go to one of the 7 county courts at law; and fine-only Class C matters stay with the justice-of-the-peace or municipal court in the city that issued the citation. Because every district court and county court at law convenes at 2100 Bloomdale Road, a resident of Plano, Frisco, Allen, or Wylie still answers each setting in McKinney unless venue is moved under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 31.
Collin County also runs one verified problem-solving docket. County Court at Law No. 7 operates a DWI/Drug Court program — a supervised, treatment-oriented track that can replace a conventional jail-or-probation outcome with structured testing, counseling, and judicial monitoring for defendants who qualify. Determining whether a client is a candidate for that program is one of the first evaluations we make on an eligible intoxication or possession case.
Geography, transportation, and policing
Collin County’s enforcement pattern follows its highways. The county is crossed by US 75 (Central Expressway), US 380 (University Drive), State Highway 121 / the Sam Rayburn Tollway, the President George Bush Turnpike (SH 190), the northern segment of the Dallas North Tollway, and state highways 5, 78, and 289 (Preston Road). Those commuter arteries carry heavy nightly traffic between the suburbs and the wider metroplex, and they generate the bulk of the county’s traffic stops, DWI arrests, and highway drug-interdiction cases.
Policing is layered. The Collin County Sheriff’s Office patrols the unincorporated county, serves warrants, and runs the jail, while the county’s largest municipal agencies — the Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Allen, and Wylie Police Departments — make most arrests inside their own city limits, and the Texas Department of Public Safety works the tollways and state highways. Whichever agency makes the stop, the arrestee is booked into the Collin County Detention Facility at 4300 Community Avenue in McKinney and the case is filed at the Bloomdale Road courthouse. As a result, the identity of the arresting agency shapes the early evidence — which bodycam, dashcam, and offense-report systems produced the record — even though every case converges on the same McKinney courthouse and jail.
Why local defense practice matters in Collin County
The county courts at law and district courts in McKinney do not run identical dockets. Each has its own reset practice, plea-and-trial calendar, and appetite for contested pretrial hearings, and the Criminal District Attorney’s office divides its work among specialized units — intoxication, narcotics, crimes against persons, family violence, and white-collar — that each carry distinct charging habits and diversion thresholds. An attorney who is inside the Bloomdale Road courthouse week after week learns which court will hold a full Franks or Article 38.23 suppression hearing, which prosecutor will extend deferred adjudication on a first-time possession case, and which conditions a particular judge attaches to a bond or a term of probation. That local calibration is the practical difference between working the system Collin County actually runs and guessing at a generic one.
L and L Law Group appears regularly in those courts. Co-founding partners Reggie London (Texas Bar No. 24043514, a former Dallas County Assistant District Attorney) and Njeri London (Texas Bar No. 24043266) personally handle felony and misdemeanor matters at the McKinney courthouse, with concentrated volume in DWI, drug-possession, theft, assault, sex-offense, weapons, and family-violence cases. We coordinate with bonding companies across the county, screen every eligible client against the County Court at Law No. 7 DWI/Drug Court, and build sentencing mitigation from a defendant’s employment, family, and treatment history — the record a supervising court and the State weigh when they calibrate conditions to genuine rehabilitation rather than maximal control.
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