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A TRAFFIC LAWYER SPEAKS

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

A lawyer who handles traffic DWLS cases sent us this email and requested we post it. Here it is. Well done. I am a traffic lawyer. About 40% of my cases are DUIs. About 40% are DWLS cases, and 20% are other infractions. Here are my concerns about the plan announced by the SAO and Judge Slom.1) The traffic lawyers who handle about 80% of the DWLS cases were not consulted. With all due respect to the FACDL lawyers who met with Judge Slom, they do not handle a large amount of DWLS cases. One doesn't handle any of them. Why does this matter? For us it matters because we spend the money on advertising. We spend the money on staff to process the cases, calendar them, and keep in contact with the clients. And we spend the time to fix the licenses that are fixable...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).