CALIFORNIA'S "RECOGNIZED LEADERS" IN DUI DEFENSE 

California Drunk Driving Law is a two-volume treatise on the laws of the State of California relating to DUI. The treatise is written by attorneys Barry T. Simons and Paul Burglin, two of California's most respected and well-known attorneys in the area of DUI defense.

Mr. Simons and Mr. Burglin not only write and comment on the state of the drunk driving law in California, they are also practicing attorneys. When you hire the Law Office of Barry T. Simons or the Law Office of Paul Burglin, you do not get a DUI Lawyer who just reads the Book on California Drunk Driving Law, you get the DUI Lawyers who write the Book on "California Drunk Driving Law ".

This website, and the accompanying two-volume treatise, "California Drunk Driving Law ", is written for California DUI Defense Lawyers.  This disclaimer is not meant to discourage non-lawyers or defendants from using the website as an informational guide; however, all readers should be advised that no attorney-client relationship is intended or formed by any use of this information and the information provided is not intended to be considered legal advice; nor should it be relied upon as such as there is no substitute for consulting a qualified California DUI Defense Attorney  to determine the merits of your California DUI case and deciding whether any legal or factual defenses apply to your California Drunk Driving case.

Contact a qualified California DUI Defense Lawyer  from the Law Office of Barry T. Simons today for a free California DUI Case Evaluation.

BARRY SIMONS (SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONS)

Mr. Simons has also been selected as a Superlawyer in DUI Defense for the Southern California region and has a 10.0/10.0 rating in DUI Defense by the AVVO Lawyer Rating System. Mr. Simons's credentials speak for themselves and it is for this reason that he was chosen to continue Ed ("Fast Eddie") Kuwatch's legacy of providing DUI Defense attorneys throughout the State of California and the country with the most up-to-date information on the laws of drunk driving.

Mr. Simons leads a team of dedicated DUI defense lawyers, each specially trained in DUI defense and each a contributing editor to California Drunk Driving Law. These lawyers include: Alan Castillo, Marlo Cordero and Peter F. Iocona, who is not only qualified to "Administer" the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, but who is also qualified as an "Instructor" of the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests. 

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PAUL BURGLIN (NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONS)

Paul Burglin has been practicing DUI law for over 25 years and is the co-author of California Drunk Driving Law. Mr. Burglin is a Regent of the National College for DUI Defense and is also one of only a handful of attorneys in the entire State of California to hold Board Certification in DUI Defense by the American Bar Association.

Mr. Burglin is one of only a select few DUI defense attorneys in the country to have been accepted to attend the University of Indiana's Borkenstein Course on chemical testing and scientific protocols typically only offered to prosecution experts, and he is a certified graduate of the Borkenstein Institute.

Mr. Burglin is a frequent lecturer before the National College for DUI Defense and the California DUI Lawyers Association. Mr. Burglin is rated 10.0/10.0 in DUI Defense by the AVVO Lawyer Rating System.

Mr. Burglin is a well-known commentator on California DUI Law and skilled DUI trial lawyer.

THE HISTORY OF KUWATCH'S CALIFORNIA DRUNK DRIVING LAW

The two-volume treatise, "California Drunk Driving Law", was started by Ed ("Fast Eddie") Kuwatch nearly 30 years ago.  Mr. Kuwatch spent his entire career educating, inspiring, and organizing California criminal defense attorneys who handled driving under the influence cases.

Prior to publishing the first edition of California Drunk Driving Law in 1984, Mr. Kuwatch filed an amicus brief in People v. Trombetta at the request of the Contra Costa County Superior Court Appellate Division. 

In 1988, Mr. Kuwatch founded California Deuce Defenders (CDD), which has since been renamed to California DUI Lawyers Association (CDLA), a statewide organization made up of criminal defense attorneys specializing in DUI defense.  That same year, Mr. Kuwatch authored and published the EZ-ALC Verson 2.0 Blood Alcohol Chart Software that is still used today.

Ed Kuwatch was known throughout the nation as the "Guru" of drunk driving law. He lectured at seminars for DUI defense attorneys throughout the nation.  Mr. Kuwatch has often been also been referred to as "The Dean of the DUI Defense Bar" (San Francisco Recorder, August 13, 1997). 

Over the years, Mr. Kuwatch, teamed up with some of California's Most-Recognized Leaders in Drunk Driving Defense, offering his services to clients of these DUI lawyers throughout the entire State of California. Mr. Kuwatch's textbook on the subject of DUI law: "California Drunk Driving Law", covered DUI law like no other text in America. The powerful tool is used by thousands of DUI defense attorneys, prosecutors and judges. Fittingly, they named it "The Bible of Drunk Driving Defense"™.

Mr. Kuwatch was a defender of the Constitution of the United States. He fought to defend the laws of the State of California and sought to end laws that restricted the right of citizens to bear arms and fought to limit the three-strikes laws to cases involving only violent offenders.

When Mr. Kuwatch passed, the legacy of his textbook, California Drunk Driving Law, ultimately passed to Mr. Simons as Mr. Simons was a close personal friend of Mr. Kuwatch and they often worked together on DUI cases. Like Mr. Kuwatch, Barry T. Simons has fought hard to defend the rights of those charged with DUI in the State of California and throughout the country and as a tribute to Mr. Kuwatch's legacy, Mr. Simons continues to update and publish Mr. Kuwatch's treatise along with DUI defense attorney Paul Burglin and some of the other most-recognized leaders in California Drunk Driving Law.

DISCLAIMER: This website and blog are intended for use by those seeking general information relating to California drunk driving law.  The reader should be aware of the fact that California DUI laws and legal procedures such as those presented in this website are constantly changing.  Consequently, any statute, law, or procedure discussed herein may have been changed as a result of drunk driving laws, judicial court decisions, or California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) license suspension rules, regulations, policies or procedures enacted since similar information was posted on this website.

Moreover, the information provided here is not intended to be legal advice and should not be relied upon as such because there is no substitute for consulting with a qualified DUI Specialist.  Accordingly, the reader is strongly advised to consult with a DUI Specialist and anyone with a legal problem should immediately obtain legal representation and advice from an attorney with extensive experience handling California DUI Defense cases. 

The Law Office of Barry T. Simons, the Law Offices of Paul Burglin, as well as the publisher, James Publishing, assume no liability whatsoever for any use of this website or blog as it is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to be legal advice from this office or from any attorney working for this firm. Rather, the information contained in this website and blog are intended to initiate further, subsequent discussions between the reader having a specific legal problem and a qualified DUI attorney.  All readers are informed that no attorney-client relationship is intended nor formed by any use of this website or blog and all readers are advised, in line with the Rules of the State Bar of California, that the only way to form an attorney-client relationship with The Law Offices of Barry T. Simons or the Law Offices of Paul Burglin is to execute a binding retainer agreement with either one or both firms.