Michael Ralph Bruggeman

I can't say enough about Mike Bruggeman. He is extremely knowledgable and has an excellent ability to analyze legal issues, and interact with prosecutors and judges, as well as the jury. He truly cares about his clients, and In my case his fees were extremely fair given the amount of work he put in...to the matter, his expertise, and the results obtained. Criminal defense lawyers will often have some clients who blame their lawyer for being convicted, but Mr. Bruggeman gave me sound legal advise and guidance at every turn.

Mike Bruggeman is a lawyer whose main focus is payment.  He will act, engage the client and work hard to get his money.  Once paid he becomes unresponsive, passive and it can even be characterizes as ambivalent.  One item that Bruggeman does do well is spend the funds he is given.  During our pre...-trial preparation he went on more vacations than 5 families combined.  During our year interaction up to and during the trial, Bruggeman continued to ignore the wishes and directions of the family, while never actually conveying the reasoning of "his" defense to anyone except himself.  Even his own paid investigator could not understand the rational of the defense or support its execution.  To be clear the case was framed as a 2nd degree murder trial, tried as such, but resulted due to his "bumbling" with 1st degree w/life.  Don't hire unless your looking to ensure failure and imprisonment.