Law Offices of Michael J. Fremont

Michael Fremont is an excellent attorney and achieved an excellent result for us. He was able to get a better result than we ever anticipated and was very professional throughout the process. Mr. Fremont is knowledgeable about the law and various strategies and is very experienced with respect to the bureaucracy of the system and the various prosecutors and judges. He returned phone calls promptly and was available at all times of the day or night. Alicia, who works in his office, his knowledgeable, professional, kind and friendly and makes the entire process that much easier to handle. Highly recommend Mr. Fremont and his office.

Mr Fremont was by far the best Attorney for us! We met with plenty Attorneys to see who best understood our case and we picked him. He is a very busy man and for us that was a good thing. He did however, always return our messages by the end of the day if not betwern his court hearings. His secretary is very knowledgable and also very helpful. You will never be alone or feel alone from day 1 to months after a closed case. We had a case in which we had really low hopes for to win and we WON! He will try his absolute hardest to give you the best you can get! Trust him and know he has it! Hes extremely experienced and knows so much. He was also highly recommended to us!
Goodluck!

Let me start by saying I’m not new to the legal world. I have had my fair share of drinking related issues. That being said Mr. Fremont is by far the absolutely worst DUI attorney I have ever retained. We set up a meeting in his San Diego office that he only uses to meet with clients. After we went over my charges which was my 4^th DUI in a 10 year span, 3 of which were in another state. When he informed me that CA goes back 10 years of DUI’s and my current one would be a felony I began to sweat. He looked me straight in the eyes and said I had a good case and he was so excited to defend a case like mine because the some laws had just changed of the way the police department took my blood. I was not up to date of CA DUI laws and how strict they are but Mr. Fremont looked me square in the eyes again and insured me that I would not be looking at jail time so I hired him right on the spot. This is where my confidence in him ends, the first 3 times I had court he didn’t even know who I was so id have to approach him. He would tell me everything is going to be ok and not to worry. Well I have no choice to worry seeing how my job and life were on the line. As time and court appearances went on things got worse and worse. He lost every single motion hearing we took before the judge and manage to piss off the DA and judge on a regular basis. The court reporter had to ask him to speak up almost every time we were in court and was quite rude when making statements to the judge. All this happening while he’s assuring me this isn’t a jail case and I wont be going to jail. After losing all the motions we have one last chance by having a bench trial on my prior DUI’s in another state. Well we go before a judge that doesn’t hear a lot of cases like mine so she was a little lost herself. Mr. Fremont had his worst performance at my bench trial, he argued against a fresh out of law school DA and was embarrassed. Once I was found guilty on felony DUI, the judge increased my bail from 2500 to 50k, Mr. Fremont looked at me and said «oh wait I didn’t know your bail was that low». I told him that he was my attorney and those were facts he was suppose to know. So off to jail I go for 30 days until my sentencing hearing. Mr. Fremont at this point begins to tell my girlfriend and my boss that I may be looking at serious time. Umm why would he say that when he’s been telling me throughout this process not to worry jail wouldn’t be on the table? So I go into my sentencing hearing completely blind and not knowing what to expect. At my hearing he hands me a copy of the probation report and that they are recommending 365 days in custody and 3 years on probation with my custody to serve half of the 365 in a work release program. So the hearing begins and right from the start Mr. Fremont isn’t prepared. The DA completely embarrasses Mr. Fremont and made me look like a monster, everything I asked Mr. Fremont to speak on in my behalf he literally told me to shut up or I was going to prison. I have recently started looking for attorneys to maybe fight an appeal or a sentence reduction, every single attorney I have talked to laughed when I said who my attorney was. If that’s not a warning sign I don’t know what is

Disorganized and unprofessional. When you meet him during the initial consultation, you will be convinced you need to hire this man. However, you do not. In fact, you will likely get the exact same results regardless of whether you retain an attorney or not. So, use the money you would otherwise spend on legal fees and pay your court fines.
Here are some of the highlights that warrant my two star rating. He promised me results on appeal that he should never have promised and ultimately could not deliver. He missed filing deadlines for evidence that severely prejudiced my case. He called me the day before hearings asking material questions; questions that indicated he was rushing to prepare at the last minute (and had not even read the questionaire he asked me to fill out). The briefs he submitted to the court had several misspellings and typos in them. He was argumentative with the administrative officer at the DMV, the judge and opposing counsel. In sum, his actions only proved one thing to me: his ego is the only thing that matters to this man. Watching him in court was like watching a peacock strut at the zoo.
This is coming from someone who did their research before hiring Mr. Fremont and talked with several other attorneys in town before retaining him. Unfortunately, I made the wrong decision and I would never hire him again or recommend him to anyone.
I post this review only because all of his other Unilocal reviews are 4 – 5 stars. People need to be warned (go on AVVO to see other unhappy clients) not everyone has been satisfied with Mr. Fremont’s work product (or lack of it).

Best attorney in southern California, hands down. He saved me! And im not even exaggerating. Finding him randomly was one of the luckiest things to ever happen to me.

I was very unsure the best approach to take against fighting my DUI. After consulting with multiple lawyers, I decided on Mike. After dealing with him and his offices the past few months I got the result that made it worth every penny, Case Dismissed. Very easy process, and I would hire him again. Recommended = yes.

Mike is a great and honest attorney. He’s not like many other attorneys that tell you what you like to hear. He will give you his honest opinion on how strong of a defense you have on your case. He will not sugar coat anything to try and collect your money. He knows the ins and outs on DUIs from a 1^st offense DUI to a 4^th DUI to a Felony DUI. He is well known in all SD county courts and that’s a plus for your case. If you want a knowledgable, hard working, honest and affordable attorney, Mike is the right attorney to defend you!