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DUI Defense Attorneys in San Diego, California

Searching for a dui lawyer in San Diego? Counsel for the ten days that matter most, DMV hearings and DUI court defense. This page indexes San Diego's DUI defense coverage from the State Bar of California's official roll, with identity-verification markers where available.

San Diego County Superior Court hears civil matters at the downtown Central Courthouse and branch courts in Vista, El Cajon, and Chula Vista; the federal Southern District of California, with its border-driven docket, also sits downtown. For DUI defense cases, venue ordinarily lies with the San Diego County Superior Court: Central Courthouse, downtown · which is why counsel who appear there regularly read the local calendar better than any brochure.

One date controls everything that follows: ten days from arrest to request the DMV administrative hearing, per Cal. Veh. Code § 13353.2. The DMV's administrative per se suspension is separate from the criminal case, missing the 10-day window forfeits the hearing. Most misdemeanor DUI charges must be filed within one year (Cal. Penal Code § 802). Read the record below with that clock in mind.

This page is the San Diego chapter of the registry's statewide record · DUI Lawyers in California collects every county and city.

The clock & the court

Statute of limitations

Ten days from arrest to request the DMV administrative hearing.

Cal. Veh. Code § 13353.2

The DMV's administrative per se suspension is separate from the criminal case, missing the 10-day window forfeits the hearing. Most misdemeanor DUI charges must be filed within one year (Cal. Penal Code § 802).

Court of record · San Diego County

Superior Court of California, County of San Diego.

Main courthouse: Central Courthouse, 1100 Union Street, San Diego, CA 92101

For San Diego: San Diego County Superior Court: Central Courthouse, downtown.

Court website · Self-help center · Source: The court's official website, read 2026-09-27. Venue depends on the case; legal information, not legal advice.

DUI Defense · San Diego roster

7 active attorneys with an address of record in San Diego list dui defense among their practice areas on the registry, out of 12,135 active attorneys whose address of record is in San Diego.

By count, the practice areas most often listed by San Diego attorneys are business law (2,664), litigation (2,317), employment (1,422), personal injury (1,293) and real estate (1,138). A count of listings, not a measure of skill.

18 of the 12,135 have claimed and verified their record here; every other listing is the official record as published.

For 978 of the 12,135 active attorneys in San Diego, the registry holds a language other than English; by count, Spanish (784), Chinese (376), French (289) and Japanese (156). Attorneys themselves confirmed Spanish (2); the rest come from a firm website published in that language, which describes the website, not the attorney.

Reading the roster in San Diego. The first deadline is the case: ten days to request the DMV hearing, so contact counsel immediately after arrest. Look for attorneys who defend DUIs in the specific courthouse where the case will be heard, ask about their approach to the stop, the field tests, and the chemical-test evidence (calibration, rising-BAC, blood-draw procedure), and whether they staff the DMV hearing themselves. Flat fees by case stage are the norm in this practice.

Address of record in San Diego