John Deming

Hi, I'm John. The law is stressful and complicated; my job is making it manageable and understandable.

I secured a guilty verdict on a case where a woman's ex was secretly recording her phone calls to other people in her family. During my time as a prosecutor, the most meaningful part of the job was always getting justice for people who had been hurt by crime.

Before I was a lawyer, I was a comedian. I love practicing law for the same reason I love writing jokes: they both take that part of the brain that focuses on the things other people miss and turns it from a quirk to a superpower. Just like finding the exact word or cadence can turn a random thought or nagging observation into something that can make an entire room burst out laughing, finding the right detail that everyone else missed can transform a losing case into a winning one.

My love for the law comes from that. The great thing about the law is that it rewards looking a little closer, thinking a little harder, and being a little more creative.

When I was in high school, a video my friends and I made as an extra credit project accidentally went viral on the Internet and wound up getting used in classrooms around the country.