TOP QUESTIONS TO ASK A PROSPECTIVE DUI ATTORNEY

Prehire Checklist of Twelve Questions to ask a DUI Attorney

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The Top Twelve Questions You Should Ask Before Hiring Any DUI Attorney to Represent Your San Diego Driving Under the Influence Case .  NOTE: We urge you to print this page and use it as a questionaire when you are interviewing prospective law firms.

These are the TOP TWELVE Questions
you should ask EVERY prospective
DUI Attorney you speak with:

  1.     

Is your practice 100% dedicated to San Diego DUI Defense ? Meaning you accept no other legal or criminal cases BUT California DUI defense matters?
The ONLY acceptable answer: Yes.

  2.     

Will the DUI attorney after whom the Law Firm is named actually be the attorney that appears on my behalf in court?
The ONLY acceptable answer: Yes.
Here's a nice follow up question if the answer is "no":

Who exactly might I expect the actual attorney in court representing me to be? Any idea? Or will you just pick someone when the court date arrives?

  3.     

Are you EXTREMELY familiar with the judges and prosecutors that will be involved with my San Diego DUI case? Do you have a strong and positive relationship with those indivuduals ?
The ONLY acceptable answers: Yes.

  4.     

Have you ever been disciplined by the State Bar of California ?
The ONLY acceptable answer: No.

  5.     

Are you a SUSTAINING member of the National College for DUI Defense? Have you attended at least five of their intensive training events?
The ONLY acceptable answers: Yes and Yes.

  6.     

Are you a "Specialist Member" of the California DUI Lawyers Association ?
The ONLY acceptable answer: Yes.

  7.     

Have YOU, not another attorney that you paid to do trials for you, but have YOU recently had a jury return a verdict of "NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES" on a DUI case that you PERSONALLY tried in the San Diego Superior Courts? If so, are those DUI case results and dates VERIFIABLE in the San Diego County Superior Court offices?
The ONLY acceptable answers: Yes and Yes.

  8.     

Have you been through Standardized Field Sobriety Test Training under National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Guidelines? Did you attend and complete both the student course AND the instructor's course?
The ONLY acceptable answers: Yes and Yes.

  9.     

Does your law firm have a FULL STAFF of qualified, experienced, LICENSED paralegals, legal assistants, DMV consultants and investigators ?
The ONLY acceptable answer: Yes.

10.     

Do you REGULARLY get asked to speak at seminars or give presentations to other DUI attorneys in the area of Drunk Driving Defense ?
The ONLY acceptable answer: Yes.

11.     

Are your San Diego DUI case results and verdicts recent and are they readily available for me to view and verify?
The ONLY acceptable answer: Yes.

12.     

Are you PERSONALLY ever asked to speak to local law enforcement agencies, specifically their DUI Patrol Units, regarding issues in DUI enforcement ?
The ONLY acceptable answer: Yes.

NOTE: If an attorney (or saleperson acting on behalf of the attorney) cannot answer ANY of these questions in line with what has been provided as "The ONLY acceptable answers", you are not consulting with a law firm qualified to legitimately defend you in your DUI case.

Period.




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