Aaron Christopher Bitter

My story is much too lengthy for this site, but long story short, I lost custody of my son to his father (whom CPS had previously found to be abusive), AND was ordered to pay $4500 of my ex's attorneys fees due to Aaron Bitter's neglect. Had to file with the state bar and a yr and a half later I stil...l pay my ex $100 a month, barely see my son, and will have to go through the entire nightmare that is a custody battle all over again someday. This 2 1/2 yr case (much too long for a case like mine) became so stressful that I ended up in the hospital a couple of times for what I thought was seizures and now realize were insanely intense panic attacks. He didn't show to several scheduled appointments, nor did he show to my hearings, and in the end I had to represent myself (I am a fairly intelligent person and trust me, intelligence and know-how won't get you anywhere if you end up with a judge like mine that holds it against people that come in and try to represent themselves). As you can see I am still dealing with the post traumatic stress years later, all because of an attorney that claimed to care and couldn't even DO HIS JOB, let alone have compassion for anyone he was representing. Fortunately several months ago a judge heard mine and several other of Aaron's previous clients' cases and awarded us our money back and ordered that Aaron be permanently disbarred. He is officially no longer an attorney (thank God) but a lady at the State Bar informed me that he is appealing the court's decision.

My husband and I both got in trouble for separate charges in July of last year. My husband hired Mr. Bitter for his Terroristic Threat charge. I liked what my husband said about him so I hired him for my case involving pills that I messed with the prescription on. Mr. Bitter was honest with both o...f us about what it would take to get the charges dropped or reduced and that it wouldnt happen over night. The prosecutors eventually dropped my husband's terroristic threat charge completely and they reduced my charge so that I only had to pay a fine. It was reduced so that it was like a traffic ticket and I paid 300 bucks for something that I was first looking at 2 years probation on. My husband had never been in trouble before, but I had been in trouble in the past and really did not want to go back on probation. I had just made a dumb mistake. Mr. Bitter seemed very busy but he and his secretary Christina always returned my calls. He even met with my husband and I at his office on the weekend a couple times. He knew that I was taking care of my mother who had health problems and he helped work with me on everything. I have nothing but good things to say about Aaron and Christina.

I just got done with a Misdemeanor Marijuana case where Mr. Bitter got the charges against me dismissed. I was arrested with two buddies while we were riding in Frisco a couple months ago. I knew that there was a joint or two in the car, but I really no idea that one of them had a much larger bag ...on them. We all got arrested. A couple weeks after bonded out, I talked to Mr. Bitter and 2 other lawyers about hiring them to fight my case. The other two lawyers treated me like I was some dumb doped out college kid and did not act like they believed my story or had any intererst in helping do anything other than get on probation. Mr. Bitter did not say whether he could definetely get the charges dismissed, but he said it was possible and from the first interview he seemed like he genuinely cared about helping me with my case. I honestly was a little worried that this guy was too nice to be an attorney and I was hoping that he really would fight for me. The case did not get dropped immediately, but I got a call from Mr. Bitter's office a couple months later informing me that all charges were being dismissed against me. I never even had to go to Court, and I paid a lot less than my two buddies, who both got probation on the case. I would defientely recomomed Mr. Bitter to anyone going through a similar situation with criminal charges.