California’s Premier DUI Attorneys
A firm of experienced California DUI lawyers (including 3 former prosecutors) practicing DUI defense exclusively, the Law Offices of Lawrence Taylor serves clients from offices in Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside and San Diego. Supported by a staff of 3 former law enforcement DUI experts, including 2 former DWI police officers, each DUI lawyer in the firm focuses entirely on drunk driving defense and criminal DUI related DMV license suspensions. No cases but misdemeanor or felony DUI defense (driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs) are accepted.
- Top-rated by Martindale-Hubbell: “A-V”
- Listed in Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
- “Southern California Super Lawyers” (Los Angeles magazine)
- “Best Lawyers in Orange County” (Orange Coast magazine)
- Author of 2 books on drunk driving defense and California DUI Law.
- AVVO client-based ranking: 10/10 (“Superb”)
The highly specialized law firm, with each DUI defense attorney averaging 14 years criminal experience, has been awarded the coveted peer review rating of AV (“very high to preeminent” in legal ability and ethics) by the Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory — the highest rating awarded to attorneys and one shared by fewer than 7% of all lawyers in the United States. The Law Offices of Lawrence Taylor is also listed in the prestigious Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, and has twice been featured in the American Bar Association Journal (“Today’s DUI Defense Bar is More Focused and Aggressive” and “New Test for DWI Defense”), one article noting the successful DUI defense specialization and unique technical support of former law enforcement drunk driving experts for each California DUI attorney in the firm. And in a May 2009 expose article on DUI defense attorneys, California Lawyer (the professional journal for members of the California State Bar) observed:
“Defendants often get from their lawyers what they pay for. At the Law Offices of Lawrence Taylor…blood and urine samples are routinely reanalyzed; breathalyzer maintenance, calibration and administration are investigated; and sometimes even the scene of an arrest is revisited. Taylor’s firm also boasts a support staff that includes a forensic toxicologist who once did DUI testing for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s crime lab, a former hearing officer for the DMV, and a former police officer who was on the Santa Ana police department’s DUI task force. That’s a far cry from the firms where lawyers, by their own admission, do the same thing over and over again.”
The result of experience, specialization and technical support is success in the criminal court and at the California DMV license suspension hearing. And Mr. Taylor’s firm of drunk driving attorneys remains the only one approved by the California State Bar to provide continuing legal education to the legal profession.
The “Dean of DUI Attorneys”
The firm of California DUI lawyers is guided by the nationally-known “Dean of DUI Attorneys”, Lawrence Taylor. A University of California (Berkeley) and UCLA Law School graduate, Mr. Taylor is a former criminal prosecutor, Fulbright law professor and author of the two most respected drunk driving law books in the criminal defense field. With over 33 years experience, he has presented lectures to DUI lawyers at over 200 seminars on DUI laws and penalties and drunk driving defense techniques in 38 states and is today one of only 4 attorneys in California to hold ABA-approved Board Certification in DUI defense.
In annual surveys conducted by Los Angeles magazine, over 65,000 Southern California attorneys have voted Mr. Taylor a “Super Lawyer” in each of the past five years, one of only two California DUI attorneys so honored. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Law and in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. On July 25, 2002, at Harvard Law School, Lawrence Taylor was presented with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the National College of DUI Defense.
Southern California
“Super Lawyers”
“Super Lawyers 2004”
“Super Lawyers 2005”
“Super Lawyers 2006”
“Super Lawyers 2007”
“Super Lawyers 2008”
“Super Lawyers 2009”
In surveys of over 65,000 Los Angeles and Orange County attorneys.
Larry Taylor is recognized as one of the finest DUI trial tacticians in the country.
Editor, “California DUI Report”
(Taylor) excels at trial preparation and tactics... His expertise is incomparable.
“Trial” (Assoc. of Trial Lawyers of America)
Taylor, a former Marine with nearly three decades of practice, has come to be known in California as the dean of DUI defense.
“California Lawyer”
Are tougher DUI laws making it harder to defend a DUI client?
"Lawrence Taylor analyzes the impact of new DUI laws on DUI defense.
July 2, 2010
Running Time: 5 minutes, 49 seconds
What advice do you have for drivers who are stopped for a possible DUI?
Mr. Taylor offers advice to citizens facing a DUI investigation
July 2, 2010
Running Time: 6 minutes, 22 seconds
