Law Offices of Earl Carter and Associates

This Law Office is the worst! They are very expensive and they do nothing for you! We paid for an Attorney to help explain to the Court that I was innocent and was charged with extra unheard of charges. In return the attorney from this office washed his hand, could not deal with the District Attorney and had me plea guilty to charges that I did not commit!!! In addition to pleading guilty convinced me that 6 month of jail time was better than going to trial !!! He also guaranteed I would get home arrest. WRONG! I was denied home arrest and all private jails due to my disability. I am permanent disabled with a brain tumor and other serious medical conditions and jail time almost cost me my life. My wife had to hire a new Attorney to release me from jail while serving only 2 weeks. Our new attorney won the case on her first try to have me released from jail to seek emergency medical treatment with my own doctors, since the jail had no real doctors that could help me with my condition. Our new attorney was the first attorney in Orange County to have won a case like this, to have a inmate released from jail while serving a sentence. Oh and by the way the phone Secretary Gloria is rude she makes you feel like shes doing you a favor… Wow! we had to call and find out why the attorney was not in court he was always late… Wow! We only paid for their services!!! This attorneys office Is the worst ever! I DO NOT RECOMMEND!

This place is a complete scam! E. Carter doesn’t even exist! Its a attorneys pool you dont even speak to one… its all case managers… hello, most palce call them secretaries! Dont do it go to someone you can see face to face and know whos representing you! Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere! !! If i could give a 0 or — i would!!!

Lawyers are all crooks but these guys take the bait knew I shouldn’t of hired one for a DUI but under the circumstances I decided to talk to the attorney, I explained what happend when I got a DUI on my motorcycle that the light doesn’t turn green cause of the weight difference and they messed my arm up from drawing blood he sounded very confident about beating it getting emotions on the light and a blood split, now that’s jus the begging 8 months later nothing happens they say sign this plea deal and give your DNA you’ll only have to do a 6 month program and keep your license I’m like cool they go to court come back to me and I ended up getting an 18 month program losing my liscense for a year, and still have to pay for my DNA and got to get a breathalyzer in my car these ppl arnt attorney’s they’re sales men I could of hired krusty the clown from clown college and saved 2 grand and 8 months I should have even done it myself, after the fact still trying to get answers I try contacting them Gloria there is very unprofessional tries to justify situations explaning i signed the document for my dna but the plea deals out of the question I still have to give my dna and they said its still vountary when I went down there to jus get in contact with my lawyer I tried to do that but its pointless trying to get in contact with them, they jus give you the run around they wait til you pay them off to go to court and collect papers and then want nothing to do with you when they’re finished they’re savages I don’t see how they sleep at night or have a firm so if you’re reading this save your money its pointless use it for your fines I wish I would have

I got rolled last summer with 2 illz (felony possesion), and being under the influence. One of their lawyers got my case dismissed, as long as I took a 6 hour drug class, and gave them my DNA. They only communicate by mail, but are cheap and got the job done.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
Being a poor college student with no knowledge of the legal system or the DUI process, I was suckered into retaining these crooks as counsel because of their reasonably affordable price. The saying you get what you pay for could not be more relevant in this case. If you want to pay them a large sum of money to appear in court on your behalf and send you pretty little letters explaining nothing really, then by all means retain them as counsel. But be warned, they will do NOTHING for you that you can’t do yourself.
First off, they lead you to believe the price they quote you is «all inclusive» of everything, read the fine print… IT IS NOT! They will charge you for every little extra thing they do for you besides appearing in court. And if you want to go to trial (Which you probably do), that’s going to cost a lot extra ($ 500+).
For the most part they are pretty good about informing you via letters in the mail what is happening in your case. However, they forgot to send me the results of my DMV Hearing. Upon going through a DUI checkpoint I was informed by the officer that I was driving on a suspended license! I told him I had retained counsel in my case and I had not heard anything from my lawyer or DMV, luckily he let me go. I promptly called Earl Carter and they claimed to have sent the results to me via mail about a week ago (I had not yet received them at that point). They said they would send them again and three days later I got them in the mail.
Upon appearing in court for a separate matter, I was informed that a warrant for my arrest would be issued for failure to appear in court on my DUI case (THE CASE THAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTING ME IN!!). I told the judge this must certainly be a mistake since I had counsel representing me in the case, he granted me time to call Earl Carter. Upon calling and asking them, they maintained that their records showed no charges against me had been filed in the court for my case. THEIR RECORDS ARE BULLSHIT! Luckily the judge granted me another week to get my shit together upon which I had to call Earl Carter and explain to them that I was in front of a judge and he told me directly that charges HAD IN FACT been filed against me (One would think that they would know this if they were actually Representing me or were «Experienced Attorneys»). I then had to TELL them WHEN and WHERE to appear for me since clearly they had no clue what was going on. I COULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR THEIR NEGLIGENCE! I think that speaks volumes in itself about how organized and poorly run this firm really is.
Despite this, I did however end up with a favorable result in my case via a plea deal that I am certain ANYONE could have obtained. Overall, they basically stole my money and did nothing for me that I couldn’t have done myself. Lesson learned the hard way I guess. NEVER AGAIN!

Awful! Rude! Unprofessional! Make sure you ask if one attorney will represent you and if they are available to talk and/​or meet when you need to. Follow through after your case is done. I found out years later that they never fixed my son’a driving record

I had the best experience with Earl Carter and Associates! At the beginning of all this, I had no hope in winning my case. It seemed impossible because I’ve been told that the Fullerton courthouse was the toughest of all in Orange County. With the help of Attorney Juanita Duran, a miracle was made and after 8 long months, we won my case! Juanita fights like no other for her clients and does everything she can to get her point across. Earl Carter did a great job in updating me after each court date, by mailing me a letter and giving me a phone call in regard to what happened in court. I was so lucky to win my case and so thankful for finding out about Earl Carter and Associates. Thank you so much Juanita Duran and Earl Carter and Associates! You guys are the best! I DEFINITELY recommend this law office.