Worst lawyer ever, much like a public defender, working for both the client and the B.B. district prosecutor. He won't "help" your case any more than a public defender could; and by hiring him you're simply donating money to his MeThinks enterprise.
I concur with the other review. He is the worst lier ever. He would not fulfill my requests fulfilled by law, and he have indeed lied and improvised laws to prevent me from obtaining case files for my case. He does not mean to be ethical or helpful.
His techniques however will definitely get you to be his client if you have some degree of paranoia. And isn't that the symptom for most court cases? He overstates the charge and use carefully intonated vocabulary on his website to that effect.
For example. On his "marijuana drug cultivation" video he would start off by saying "the war on drugs in California is stronger than ever !" What a joke for those not on the loop. Yet this is how he gets you, good old simple psychological techniques. Don't let court cases put off your guards. It's more so pronounced in person. Even though I had been wholeheartedly and sincerely convicted of my innocence, he ceaselessly utilizes the carrot and stick technique to get me to take a deal, much like public defenders:"If you go to trial, they're not going to offer you a program, and you might get xx years; but if you take the program now, you will be living in a drug rehab for a year and you'll be alright." He makes a year of living with crackheads and meth users, and being forced to turn over your government benefits to these private enterprises sound like nothing. (constitution????)
And I've visited people from programs just to know what it's like. And they provide none of the rehabilitative qualities an outside world, family or friends-oriented "program" can provide. They're like foster homes to real families. In my own opinion. Never take a program.
Of cause he is for himself and he just wants your money. But since you're not the only one paying him, he will try to negotiate with the court to get you into drug rehab programs or sentences, so the government or your insurance will pay your program or jail facility about hundred thousand dollars (it's about 10,000 dollars for 3 months programs in April; less for public insurance), so that they pay the intermediate a hefty referral fee (thirty percent right now?Or has the Market Changed?) so that court and judges and district attorneys get some money as well. At the end Chad Lewin can have a good relation with the court and get more clients by doing what he is doing, and claim to be an experienced and practiced lawyer. He will learn what outcomes you want for your case, and pretty much instill the idea you cannot get what you want, with a combination of techniques I shouldn't need to name.
I discourage you from hiring him. And in case if you're wondering why I hired him. I didn't. My 55 year old mother fell in his heavy internet advertising scheme (FOX news???lol) and now That's 20,000 dollars of different people's money for nothing. Still he addes a last minute clause So that I'll still need to pay more if my second case goes to trial (yet it's covered for the first one? What's the difference?). Just one more catch and possibly more money for him.
I have at times got irritated at the things he says. One time I got so irritated and how he tries to make me take the program, I got excited and demanded to have a copy of my court files and video evidence. When he refuses to give them to me (which he still refuses and lied by saying it's not allowable by law), I got so mad I started shaking my hand. Immediately he says "are you on drugs?".
What a joke, I'm sure he is been on plenty of "drugs", so that drug must be the sole explanation to humaneness and temperament. That's indeed the most annoying and judgmental thing I have ever heard, and something a robotic police would assume or make up to harass the next person being passionate or simply different. I'm clear and open to my drug use, when it had occured; yet he seems to make the presumption that I'm always on drugs. Well sadly that would only be true if he meant water, caffeine, and X.X.X strength courtroom coffee?
He reminds me of the ops and the cops. Where?
Btw professional yelp reviews from reputed people can be bought for under 50 dollars a piece, less for fake accounts. So Yelp review does not mean a thing, unless it's something like this. Choose him and talk to him if you choose to. But enough people will still fall for his prey no matter what, hopefully this will encourage you.
Dammit California Bar. You're allowing your public defenders and lawyers to be intermediaries for human trafficking (think hard on the program), to make and take bribes (think hard on how court works) and to rob hope and destroy individuals' free choice of life. Surely, it's systematic and encompass the larger court and incarceration system, and much federal funding. read more