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Investigative Reporter Exposes DUI Attorney Practices

By Lawrence Taylor

The May 2009 issue of California Lawyer magazine, circulated to all attorneys in the state, has just been published — featuring the cover article "The DUI Defense Bar".  Investigative reporter Tom McNichol takes a hard (and long-overdue) look at the good, the bad and the ugly among drunk driving laws and lawyers.  A small sample: …DUI defense lawyers, however, aren’t nearly as easy to pigeonhole. At one end of the spectrum are the specialists who’ve spent much of their professional lives mastering arcane technical issues such as blood and breath partition ratios, microbial contamination in urinalysis, and the perils of retrograde extrapolation in chemical tests. These attorneys typically charge anywhere from $3,500 to $10,000 to defend a first offender, not including the expert witness fees or lab tests that may be required...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).