Daniel Anthony Murphy

Our family consulted with him and one meber becane his client. He was slow and ill-informed. A simple divorce dragged on forever. He billed and billed and billed. He ended up turning family members against one another and both lied and swore. He was very polished at first. Once he had the retainer, e...verything changed. He never accomplished the divorce and we eventuslly went to another lawyer. Mr. Murphy would not return the what we felt was the unused portion of the retainer. Save yourself, run.

Do not hire Dan, he is a drunk. Unfortunately I have known him since I was a child, as my mother (angela) has worked on and off for him si ce 1992. I hired him on advice from my mother, Angela (yes the same), and I am now ruined. According to my new friends in Santa Barbara County Jail I would hav...e gotten a better deal from the public defender. I will always maintain my innocence in the matter, and I pushed for a trial. He said the exact qrong things, to the point that I now believe he was deliberately harming my character, for no real purpose. At this point I am confident that I will sue him for malpractice and misrepresentation, except that no other lawyers will take the case. He basically took a strait foreward case and dragged it out almost two years, only to force me to accept a lousy plea bargain deal. He yelled at me a number of times, and pushed facts to the judge that were false, to try and establish some sort of false pretense. I witnessed him cohorting with the DA on several occasions, and when I called him out about it he berated me. I firmly believe he has codified some sort of criminal arrangement with the courts to ruin his clients, and basically steal their money. Read any of the other reviews here and you will understand, that he is the real criminal. I sincerly doubt the accuracy of the post giving him 5 stars, especially since every other review I have read seems to agree with me.

Dan Murphy provided counsel to me for my divorce. He has also represented several friends based on my referral. Dan was attentive, smart and kind. He was also sensitive to my monetary restrictions. Further, his legal assistant Angela Parker was amazing. She helped me work through the issues of m...y case. What a great team. I am grateful to both Dan and Angie for their work ethic and the peaceful outcome to what started as a very tense matter.