Law Offices of Earl Carter and Associates

This is a great law firm. I had a lawyer to represent me 3 years ago or so. Someone thought it was ok for them to mess with the legal system and lie to falsely accuse of putting my hands on them. When I went to court the first time I had no idea what I was doing. So to let time go by I decided to take matters into my own hands and fix the mess that I landed myself in the first round. I went to the down town area to look for a reliable and well experienced law firm. I came across this company they introduced me to a wonderful lady at the time who was working with this company. I explained everything to her. She and I would keep into touch on a daily basis, and reassure me that everything will be ok for me. The day of my court hearing I was so worried to even attend because my thought process was how will the judge understand I was falsely accused for something I never did the first time around. The first judge just went off the other persons lies and same with the police when they came out to the scene. They had no legit proof. At least when I had my lawyer to represent me this last time around the judge made sure to ask for legit proof not basis it off as a he said she said outcome. At the end he favored me and lifted the order in my favor because he can see I was innocent to begin with. No one wants to deal with a pathological sociopath psycho. Not even the judge did

I have never had the need for an attorney in my entire life, but when I got myself into a really serious situtation which included serious prison time along with a life changing felony on my record, I certainly am glad that I found Earl Carter and associates. I was thankfully assigned Dennis Kuntz. Not only is he a great person, he is an amazingly dedicated and thoughtful attorney. Being that I have never gotten in trouble in my life, I was terrified and had zero knowledge how the judical system worked. Dennis was thoughtful of my fragile state, and worked his butt off to get me the most amazing deal. I’m still in shock actually, that I will serve ZERO jail time, and my record will only reflect a misdameanor. I never in a million years thought that this was even a possibility. I cannot express my sincerce graditude to Dennis for all he did for me. I would HIGHLY recommend Dennis to anyone looking for an attorney.

It’s kinda tough to review a law firm because each client has wildly varying cases with factors that can affect the service one receives. Well my situation was a total cluster*uck. I was looking at felony charges with serious jail time. I retained Earl Carter initially out of desperation and because they were located close to the courthouse.
When I was assigned Sean Davitt, I immediately appreciated his candor and non-​nonsense approach as well as his sense of humor. He was definitely a straight shooter. However, I became anxious when I saw how busy he was juggling multiple cases, including mine, in the Riverside Court. I told him that I had hopes of getting my charges reduced to misdemeanor and avoiding any jail time. For the facts of my case, I knew this was a long shot but I wanted to see what Mr. Davitt could do.
After pretrial negotiations, Davitt came back with two offers. The DA gave a joke of an offer of no jail time as long as I accept the felony conviction, meaning I would not be able to get any decent jobs afterwards and I would have to surrender my arsenal of guns. This was not acceptable. Davitt then told me about the judges’ offer of misdemeanor reduction but with 28 days jail and 64 days community service.
Of course Davitt advised me to take the judges’ offer because it was much more beneficial in the long run to not have a felony record. So I took that offer, hoping that I would be kicked out of jail early due to the massive overcrowding in the jails due to the federal realignment mandates.
Here’s where Davitt was genius. He didn’t tell me that there was a good chance of my early release from county jail until after I signed the conviction forms. He didn’t want me to get my hopes up because there was still a small chance I could serve the whole jail sentence. So I prepared for the worse, but in the end I only served 4 days out of my 28 days.
Next Davitt secured me house arrest instead of the initial order for community service. After I enrolled in LCA for electronic monitoring, Davitt told my case manager that I should be qualified for 4019 credit, meaning that my 64 day sentence should be cut down in half, getting two days credit for each day served under house arrest.
So long story short, don’t believe those reviews that claim Earl Carter & Associates are a bad firm simply because those reviewers had a bad outcome in their case. I had reasonable expectations and I knew the limitations for what ANY private lawyer could do for the facts of my case.
This is the key, you can’t expect miracles, but Earl Carter, and Sean Davitt in particular, did more than what I hoped for so I definitely consider it money well spent. Speaking from experience, county jail is not that bad as long as you’re lucky enough not to be stuck with some crazy psychopaths. But the true horror of jail that NOBODY ever talks about is the 24 – 48 holding period of pure hell you have to endure while they look for an empty jail cell to put you in. Being stuck in a tiny 9×10′ cell with 14 other recent convicts is truly inhumane! People were sleeping on the dirty floor or under benches or toilet trying to get some shut eye from the bright ²⁴⁄₇ lights. It’s basically torture through sleep deprivation.
If you get Sean Davitt assigned to your case, make sure to point out his picture from the website!

I would like to let everyone know that Earl Carter & associates law is the very best understanding and private to your needs I had a great experience thank you Sean A. Davitt.

The moment I got in trouble with the law and needed an attorney to deal with the DMV was a day I dreaded. After calling a number of attorney’s in my area, I was getting more and more disappointed after each call! So I reached out to an attorney firm outside of my county and called Earl Carter’s law office in Riverside.
After speaking to Juan, he was very knowledgeable, had great advice, quickly responded to my phone calls and put my mind at ease. I retained their services because of Juan’s professionalism and care to my urgent matter. Leticia was a wonderful help and a pleasure to work with along with Virginia Sierra, Nadia and the whole crew were a pleasure to work with. I would recommend this law firm Earl Carter and Associates to fellow Unilocalers for criminal, probation reinstatement, violation of probation, DMV hearings, plea withdrawal, bench warrant recalls, expungement and more!

Last May 2014 I retained the services of Earl Carter at the Rancho Cucamonga Superior Courthouse. Miguel was the attorney assigned to my case. I was facing three years in state prison for 2^nd degree commercial burglary. Due to his working relationship with the DA and judge, Miguel was able to get my arrest warrant recalled and I was released on my own recognizance. My attorney was able to obtain multiple continuances so that by the time the preliminary hearing rolled around, the DA. s case against me had grown weak. As a result, Miguel presented me a deal that entailed 45 days of work-​release and NO FORMAL PROBATION!
Needless to say I was very happy with my deal. If you are ever in need of an attorney in Rancho, I would not hesitate to recommend Earl Carter and specifically Miguel to handle your case.
William K

Great service and fast! Kevin started working on my case the same day I called. If I ever need advice or an attorney I know where I’m going.

Great service.

The Law Offices of Earl Carter Law helped me out a great deal, I had an urgent problem that needed immediate attention. I filled out the form on their website and a few minutes later they called me up to discuss my case. They showed up to court of time, and saved me a great deal of money. Would use them again.

Most of these reviews MUST be from the attorneys friends or family and VERY rare and lucky clients. My husband too got a great price and I thought it was because we were referral. My husband is fighting a bogus DUI charge. My husband was driving to Home Depot at night to pick up some extra supplies for his job the next day. A lady called 911 she said he swerved and was drunk. He swerved because he was tired not drunk. He then went back to his hotel pounded drinks with his coworkers, he went outside without keys mind you as he was reaching into his car through his window to grab his cigarettes an officer asked if that was his truck he said yes and the officer arrested him, he didnt read my husband his rights but hey Earl Carter and Associates could care less about any of this. No one from this office ever called us or returned our calls. We were always told by a receptionist that the attorney was not in then when we would finally call and would be transferred to someone it was almost always an unlicensed assistant. The ONLY thing this office did was win my husbands DMV case then request extensions for 1 year in court now my husband has been assigned a court appointed attorney. Dont waste your time or money with this office they are extremely unprofessional they wont do anything for you and then will tell you if you want us to continue we want 4300.00 more, what the hell no you havent done anything to prove you are worth it. If you dont believe me ask me for my email Ill provide you with my case number and the proof is on the courts website and I can scan you all their computer generated letters, they all look exactly the same.

On 07/​25/​2012 my girlfriend was driving us home from the casino after I played poker for several hours. Obviously I had been drinking and was asleep. To make a long story short she was driving through a dark street and crashed. Riverside PD (Assholes) pinned the crash on me because I had been drinking! Well I contacted Earl Carter and they retained my DL and finally after two years of pushing my case and several District Attorneys later they not only dismissed my DUI conviction but I plead out to an infraction of disturbing the peace. My defense attorney Joseph Iniguez was not only professional and understood my case, he worked the District attorney and made her realize that they were going to lose in trial. I highly recommend this law firm! Thank you and your team for finally making me feel like that justice was served. FUCK RIVERSIDE PD & Officer McMillan!

I was unhappy with the customer service this office had given me. Had filed for bankruptcy that was discharged but one of the creditors issued a lien on our property. When I called this office to seek their help, I was told that they no longer do bankruptcy and was told to find another attorney to represent me even though the attorney still works in the same office. I put my trust on them thinking I was represented well but it so happened that it was lack of knowledge on their part for not filing a motion to counteract the creditor from issuing a lien. To make matters worse, they don t call you back after leaving a message nor answer your emails. All I needed is an order to avoid lien, not to be neglected or be given the run around. Even if the office had major change in the services they provided, I was still a customer they had dealt with prior to the change. This company doesn’t live up to their statement for more than 30 years of experience. Not a way to treat a customer.

I was actually told by the lawyer to shack up with some guy just so I can look good for traffic court because I don’t have babies or live with family! When I told him I would rather «shack up» up a women (more joking then serious) he said
«But then you can’t have any babies.»
What an ass & what a wonderful government we have!