WARNING

BEWARE OF SO-CALLED NATIONAL LAW FIRMS

You are most likely at my website because you are looking for a lawyer to handle a criminal case for you in San Francisco or in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you search another law firm's website and find only a toll free number with no local number and if you find no local address then beware. There is no such thing as a national criminal law firm. What you are seeing is only a blatant attempt to misrepresent what amounts to an advertizing scheme as a national law firm. What really is occurring is the so-called national law firm sells referrals to mostly second-rate attorneys in various locales. Don't be deceived. When you are contacted by a lawyer responding to your call to a "national law firm" ask him/her if they are a member of the so-called national law firm. They won't be; because it doesn't exist. If you have a case in San Francisco you need a San Francisco lawyer, like myself, who is respected by all of the judges and prosecutors and who has an office, like I do, in one of the premier areas of town.

BEWARE OF FORMER DISTRICT ATTORNEYS AND POLICE OFFICERS

Some former district attorneys and former police officers are fine criminal defense attorneys. Most are not. But don't be deceived by their advertising which implies that because they were a district attorney or a police officer that will help you as a client. In most cases it won't because if they are still friends with the police or other district attorneys they will tend to be more concerned about maintaining that friendship than in helping you. Or they left the district attorneys office or the police on bad terms and have no friends and many enemies there. Or it has been so long since they were in the district attorneys office no one knows them there anymore. You are much better off with an attorney, like myself, who has always been a criminal defense attorney.

 

 

Jonathan M. Rutledge
Attorney at Law
225 Bush Street, Suite 1600
San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel: 415-362-8600
Fax: 415-474-1238
email:JonathanRutledge@cs.com