John H. Painter

I found myself in a very serious situation, my life changed before my eyes. I will not mention what these charges were. I was told by a close friend that Mr. Painter was the best Union county had to offer and that is with out a doubt the truth. 3 long years of court, I watched as other clients trash ...talked John saying he was a bad lawyer....the man is wise and even if it seems he is doing nothing he is always working hard for you. If it had not been for John I would surely be in jail right now. I watched him work in a courtroom for 3 years and I would not trust a single other lawyer to ever help me. John is by far the best lawyer in Union county and I would recommend him to anyone for any type of legal issue. Thank you again John you are truly a god send!

John Painter is absolutely the best Criminal Defense Attorney around. I hired Painter for a case for someone very close to me. They were charged with 20 class C Felonies. That would mean many years in prison and could have resulted in additional consequences. In the end, the 20 Class C Felonies were... dismissed and a plea of 4 Class 1 Misdemeanors was agreed on with unsupervised probation. I am overjoyed to say the least! I feel like Painter saved my loved one's life and in many ways he did. There are not enough words for the gratitude I have for this man. On day one, the day of the arrest, when we called him to come to the jail he was there within the hour. After we did the bond (which would have been higher if Painter would not have been there) we went directly to his office to talk about the case. That was on a Saturday morning. Painter has always been available to us. Day or night, weekday or weekends if we had questions or just wanted to talk to him. His office staff are a pleasure which also helped during this trying time. He certainly takes care of his clients and is compassionate about what he does. John Painter is a true professional and if you are ever in need of a criminal defense attorney, he is your man!

I hired John Painter for a DUI case whereas I was arrested after an accident but was not the person driving the vehicle. After I was arrested and taken downtown to be booked, he showed up to go over with the officers what had happened to justify my arrest. Throughout the next 16 months we went to co...urt, awaiting a trial, while the D.A. tried to come up with witnesses of the accident. As the last court date came he made it clear we were not waiting another month to resolve this matter. Finally we got to trial. During the trial Mr. Painter was at the top of his game, objecting to things that didn't apply to the charges, questioning the prosecuting witnesses in the proper way as to prove that they didn't actually see the accident until after it had happened and everyone was out of the vehicles, and, most importantly, that they had no cause to arrest me. I had injuries from the crash inflected on my right side which is consistent of the crash since we had collided mainly on the passenger side of our vehicle. Besides all of that he was persistent in the fact that regardless of who the accident had happened or, who was driving, there was no cause for me to be arrested under the suspicion of driving while impaired. I must say it is a relief to get out of trouble. But a better relief to get out of being wrongly accused of a crime that you didn't commit. Although I did have to go through getting arrested and booked downtown, and had to take at least one day a month off for 16 months, of which was not at the fault of Mr. Painter but the D.A., in the end it was well worth anything to have an attorney on my side with the knowledge and skill to prove that there was no reason to arrest nor charge me with this act. In fact after the charges were dismissed, the court, gave me another charge of failure to reduce speed which Mr. Painter appealed for the fact that they couldn't prove I was driving in the first place. I would absolutely hire this attorney again, if needed.... but lets hope that doesn't happen again.

I recently received a "Following to closely" and was pretty scared as to the extent of such ticket. This was my first ever ticket and I really didn't know what to do so i scheduled an appointment with John Painter and he was absolutely wonderful. John was not only a pleasure to deal with but he helpe...d with my ticket and had it dropped. Not only keeping my insurance from skyrocketing but also kept me from having to show up at court at all. When i talked to John Painter, he talked to me as if he was my friend for decades. Which is very nice . He's very intelligent and he knows the business very well. If your needing someone to fight your case then John Painter is your guy. He did me a great job and i will recommend him to everyone I know.