John M. Gioffredi's Reviews

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Posted by Kim | September 05, 2025 | Speeding & Traffic Ticket

Does not return emails and calls

I have used John Gioffreddi over the years and he did a good job. I’m an attorney so I have also referred my clients to him. But his office staff must have changed. I recently got a ticket and reached out nearly 2 weeks before the deadline to answer and I have yet to get answers to simple questio...ns, find out fees or get a contract. My answer is due Monday and now I a frantically looking for another lawyer because as Abraham Lincoln said “only a fool represents himself”.

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Posted by Marti | November 19, 2013 | Speeding & Traffic Ticket

John Gioffredi Attorney's are awesome!!

I contacted John Gioffredi in regards to (2) traffic tickets that were in warrant status. I went by their office at payed bond and they immediately had warrants lifted and court was scheduled. The first date in court my attorney advised to schedule trial in which he did. When I came to court he alre...ady the offense dismissed. The second offense also was scheduled for trial and was also dismissed on my court date. The offenses were speeding and insurance. I payed $250.00 total for bond and attorneys fees. They saved me a total of $800.00! Teresa their office manager is professional and contacts you via phone to remind you of court. Love John Gioffredi!!

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John Gioffredi

Replied last November 25, 2013

Thanks for the glowing review Marti...but positive results are supposed to be given FIVE stars, not ONE! Please read the directions more closely - you're making me look bad!

Posted by teresa | March 22, 2010 | Speeding & Traffic Ticket

too busy for tickets

took my retainer to handle some tickets for me and knew from the begining the tickets were issued by a constable and he has done this for long enough that he knew that because a constable issued the citations they were locked in .. no getting out of them the only way to handle these citations was ...to pay the fine and let them go on my driving record he could have told me that from the very jump and saved me the retainer fee he took and did absolutely nothing for. except tell me the amount of the fines about three months after the fact

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John Gioffredi

Replied last March 23, 2010

I don't know this person, and I don't understand what her complaint is, but she's obviously unhappy. She's also obviously wrong about several things. 1) There's simply no such thing as fines or citations being "locked in." I have no idea where she got that idea. We can always fight the allegations by a contested trial if the person wants to pay us additional money to do so. That doesn't necessarily mean that we are going to win the trial, or that it makes the best financial sense to have a trial, but the trial option is always available for the client if they tell us that they want a trial. 2) Unless there was something unusual about the citation (i.e. - 120 mph in a school zone), under current procedures we can pretty much ALWAYS keep the citation off of the client's driving record - provided that they pay a probation fee on time and otherwise follow our instructions. I suspect that this person either didn't pay on time or didn't follow our instructions otherwise. 3) Specifically, under current procedures available to us, we can almost always keep a ticket issued by a Dallas CONSTABLE off a defendant's driving record by appealing the case and getting the defendant deferred adjudication at the county court. This procedure has been available for so long and is so successful in achieving an eventual dismissal that we always choose this procedure - unless the client affirmatively states that they want a contested trial instead, and then pays us to do the trial. If the client is upset that paying a probation fee is the ONLY guaranteed way to keep a Dallas constable - issued citation off of her driving record, we have no control over that, other than to simply explain that to her up front. And we always provide people this information, orally and in writing, before they hire us. It's in our contract. We always tell our clients what to expect when they hire us. I've never taken money from a client if I knew I couldn't help, and I've never taken money from a client and then "done nothing." If this unhappy client, or anyone else believes otherwise, I encourage them to call my office any day, any time, and ask any person on my staff what we can do with a ticket issued by a Dallas county constable. The telephone number is 214-739-4515. No matter when you call, or how many times you call, or who you talk to, you will always get the same truthful answer - every time. Perhaps this person wanted or expected her citations to be dismissed outright. Sometimes we are able to do that, if there is a legal deficiency in the complaint, but most times that doesn't happen, and we tell people all of that up front. We can only follow the legal procedures which are available at any given time. We have no magic wand to simply make tickets mysteriously disappear. Believe me, I wish it were otherwise. If anyone can provide me with such a magic wand, notwithstanding my own doubts about the existence of such wands, I will waive it around so we can all see what happens.

Posted by Susan | February 23, 2010 | Speeding & Traffic Ticket

I do not recommend this law firm

I used this law firm in 2005 for a traffic violation and when I just tried to renew my license this year (2010) I found that they had NOT taken care of the ticket even though they gave me a pink slip that said it was taken care of. Now I have to fight to get it taken care of, and they are completely... unwilling to take care of what I already paid them for! I am a legal secretary and this law firm came highly recommended to me by the attorneys at my firm. Evidently they take care of you if you are an attorney, but otherwise they could care less.

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John Gioffredi

Replied last March 09, 2010

We are human, and we occasionally make mistakes. When we do, we admit it, and we try to do whatever we can to make things right. But there was no such mistake in this instance. We promised to handle this client's ticket, which we properly did, but an administrative collection fee of $30 (called an "omni fee") was added as a result of this client allowing the ticket to fall into warrant status prior to hiring us. We immediately posted a bond to lift the warrant, and later handled the ticket itself in court. Unfortunately, there is no legal defense (at least none that I am aware of) to these so called administrative "omni fees". And there certainly isn't a legal defense that could be legitimately pursued for less than the $30 cost to pay the fee itself. These fees aren't criminal in nature, so warrants are never issued for non-payment, but the government will not renew a driver's license until the fee is paid. So they pretty much always get their money - eventually. When we get hired on a ticket that has a $30 omni fee attached to it, we offer to forward the $30 fee to the omni fee collection agency at no charge to our clients if they give us the money to do so. Otherwise we instruct them how to pay the fee on their own. But I certainly don't pay the $30 out of my own pocket, anymore than I would do the jail sentence myself should a client of mine be unfortunate enough to be convicted of a more serious crime. We explained all of this to this client, but she didn't like what we were telling her, and wanted us to pay her $30 omni fee out of my own pocket, which we wouldn't do. We had nothing to do with that fee - there is NEVER anything that we can do with these fees. The client just has to pay them (or not get their driver's license renewed.) We have handled over 80,000 traffic citations since 1985, and in doing so, have never once been cited by the Texas State Bar for professional misconduct. So notwithstanding this client's complaint about having to pay the $30 omni fee before the state would renew her driver's license, we feel that we do a pretty good job on these matters. I am very sorry that the government made her pay them $30 before they would renew her driver's license, but there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. (You can't please everyone, no matter how hard you try.) - John Gioffredi

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Criminal defense lawyer | Sep 05

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DUI and DWI lawyer | Jan 21

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"John has been a winning DWI trial attorney for a very long time. He's innovative and brilliant and those traits serve his clients extremely well. He shares his legal knowledge freely with members of the defense bar. Everybody knows him and everybody knows he brings everything when he tries a case. Plus, he's got some of the best stories of cases he's won despite extraordinarily unfavorable circumstances. We've got some great attorneys in town but none better than Gio!"