Everything in California is expensive, so a San Diego CA DUI attorney can often make you faint just by pulling out the fee agreement. You could buy a house with that kind of money, you might think, and then resign yourself to being convicted to the full extent of the law because you’ll be representing yourself. Stop thinking that way. Federal requirements for representation apply for DUIs as well, and so if you have a felony, and even a lot of the time if you just have a misdemeanor, conviction that you are up against you will be provided with a lawyer by the state.

Lawyers who work for the state are typically seen as no nothings, and while I’m not going to deny that this term describes very well many public lawyers, it goes the same for private lawyers. Some public lawyers are bad at what they do, as are some private lawyers. The vast majority of public lawyers, though, excel.

Since being a public lawyer isn’t exactly going to get you as much money as being a private lawyer does, most such lawyers practice law for pay on the side, and often they retired into the public system after years of practicing law on their own.