Avoid this guy, he will sell you out to the DA just to force you into a settlement (less work for him). He will tell you initially that the charges are weak and you have a strong case and then, once you've paid him his exorbitant fee, start pressuring you to agree to a lessor charge (that actually ha...s the exact same punishment as the original - and in fact, the original charge remains on your record as having been "dropped from"). His only real strategy is to delay the proceedings again and again (he'll put a waiver in front of you right before the court calls you) in hopes that some witness (like the cop that arrested you) will drop out - the result being that you have to deal with the courts for 2 - 3 times the normal length of the case. I had a very low BAC (.0095/.01) but in the end, he forced me to accept a plea agreement (he stuck the agreement in front of me just before the court called my case and told me it was the best I would get & that if I didn't accept it I would most likely get jail time) - I ended up getting a worse sentence than a repeat high BAC offender with a public defender (I have a friend that has had 2 priors and tested at double the limit on his current DUI, and his PD was still able to limit his punishment to far less than what I got). Aaron's explanation was that I drew a very difficult Judge and that the Judge obviously didn't like me! Right. So if you draw a Judge that appears to not like you, shouldn't you insist on a change of venue due to judicial prejudice? The same excuse was used with why the DA wouldn't give me a better deal. It actually seemed to boil down to, "Because HE has to work with these guys" - he was more concerned about how HE was going to work with this DA and Judge on future cases than he was about getting me a fair result. There are a lot of far better lawyers out there that are actually willing to work for you, don't take the chance with this one.