Douglas M. Gutscher

Mr. Gutscher is a highly respected criminal defense and labor law attorney in Michigan, with hundreds a case representations. Apparently one individual did not like the advice Mr. Gutscher provided in a case in which the individual was criminally charged. Any one with a degree of common sense will ...know that you cannot please everyone all of the time. Bottom line is Mr. Gutscher does excellent work and is in high demand for his expertise.

After being charged with a fictitious crime by a prosecutor that was unqualified to take the case, I was assigned Doug Gutscher as my union-appointed defense attorney. He refused to even listen to my side of the story until he read the police report, because he didn’t want to “draw any conclusions”. ...After I requested that he file a motion to have the case reassigned to an independent prosecutor, Doug refused my request and referred to it as “petty and frivolous”. Considering that Doug’s only recommendation was that I take a plea, I discontinued his representation and hired my own attorney. Not surprisingly, my new attorney had the originally assigned prosecutor recused and the State AG assigned my case to an independent prosecutor…who declined to prosecute the ridiculous charge. It’s unfortunate that POAM collected 10 years’ worth of union dues from me and the best they could provide for my legal representation was Doug Gutscher. His unprofessionalism and lack of communication skills were very disappointing.