Hey there, welcome back to New
Day Northwest. Listen,
we all know you should never drink and drive,
but people do make mistakes and there are
definitely consequences to those mistakes.
Local law firm DUI Heroes is here
to tell us how a good lawyer can
help you through the process.
Joining us now is DUI.
Heroes founding lawyer Jonathan Dickner.
Welcome to new day. Thank you.
Have a nice to see you.
It is nice to see you so tell us
first what DUI heroes is all about.
So DUI Heroes is a small boutique
law firm we currently have.
For attorneys and all,
we deal with a DUI and DUI related offenses.
Nothing else, no personal injury,
no family law or anything like that.
We focus exclusively on
representing people charged with
DUI and DUI related offenses.
All up and down the I5
corridor throughout Washington,
mostly King and Snohomish County,
but pretty much will go anywhere.
OK, So what is the difference between case
management and client care in your office?
So case management is kind
of what most Law Offices do.
It's about working through the caseload.
Getting through the files and kind of
making sure your caseload goes low
enough that you can take in new cases.
It's very impersonal and it's very hands off.
Very sterile client care,
on the other hand, is is what we do.
It's about getting to know the
individual client we refer to.
Most of our clients by first name
and we get to know who they are,
what their goals are,
not just for their case, but for their lives.
One of the first things that we try
to acknowledge to each of them is that
we're sorry they're going through this.
Because very few people ever say that
it's a scary thing to go through.
It's terrifying.
They're jobs, shame they're shame et cetera,
and we try to recognize that.
The person who comes into our
office is literally in the hardest
position of human being is ever in.
They're sitting in front of a
stranger and they're saying,
please help me and that's one of
the most humbling things in human
being ever has to do.
And we recognize that and we're actually
grateful to them for coming to us
and asking us to be the one to help them.
That is, it's it's powerful
because on top of the shame,
I mean there's that incredible guilt for you.
Feel like a terrible human being,
or you and you don't want to talk to anyone.
And there are several processes
you have to go through.
Once this happens, correct and
you help through those processes.
Yeah, we we go through the
entire process with our clients.
There's a a department of
licensing administrative process.
There's the court process.
It's very confusing because there
are parts of them that interplay.
There are parts of them that don't.
Every client of ours gets
a free copy of my book.
The DUI survival guide.
You can get a copy on online,
but you can get a copy for free
just by calling us or asking me not
get you a copy anytime you want.
All of our clients get it walked
through all the basics. That's handy.
And then we're always there.
For the the clients and and
really for anyone 24/7,
that is very very
helpful. How did you get
into this line of work?
Why did you specifically pick this?
You know, kind of by accident.
I I never intended to go into
this particular line of work.
It just turned out as I sort of
went through law school and got
into doing criminal defense work.
And now we're talking 20 plus years ago
that I just kind of had a knack for it.
And the more I got to know people
who were going through this,
the more I found that I was very good
at being very understanding about it.
And then I started to see.
Some of the real problems with
the system Mm-hmm and I started
to meet individuals who really
changed my view on things.
For example, I had a client named Christina.
Christina came to me a few
years ago as a medical student.
Christina wanted to write at
the height of the pandemic,
wanted to become a doctor.
She's very close,
and she'd been in an accident.
There was an allegation of a fairly
high alcohol level in her case,
and based on that,
the prosecutor's office.
And her case wasn't really willing
to do much in terms of negotiation,
and she just came in terrified
that she was not going to be able
to achieve her goal of helping
people and healing people.
And we said, well,
we'll we'll help you and
we'll investigate the case.
And when we investigated the case,
what we found was that the Police
Department and was here in Seattle.
The Police Department had obtained her
breath test illegally and actually,
through one of the most brazenly
illegal things,
I think I've ever seen in almost 20 years.
In practice,
it was essentially one officer
who didn't have the authority.
His license to do a breath test had expired,
and
so you can't ascertain
whether it was done. Correctly
correct, but another officer who
had a valid card, yeah, gave it to
him and said just use mine instead.
Ohh, which is even worse.
So there were so many problems with this
and this lady's life was on the line.
I did everything end up
working out at least alright
when we were able to take all this
information in the Prosecutor's office
and show them what their officers had
done and and the officers bad actions,
what they were actually willing to do was
amend her charge not just away from DUI,
but all the way down to the lowest
possible criminal offense and misdemeanor.
It didn't hold up her medical career.
It didn't hold up her license,
and actually the the day that I asked
her if I could share her story.
As part of a variety of different talks
that I do, she said absolutely I'm.
I'm happy to do it and also
I wanna tell you something.
Jonathan I said what's that?
She said I'm holding my
medical license in my hand.
I got it in the mail today.
Wow, and so Christina is a doctor
now and she's helping people.
Well, I know that it it just just
proves that this can happen to
anyone at any time circumstances.
Obviously that it it.
We know it's not right,
but but this happens.
So before I let you go,
you have a special offer
for new day viewers, right?
I do yeah. So anyone who who watches
this segment or or sees this segment or
mentions the segment mentions new day
or or you or seeing me here what we're
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It's all calculated in advance.
We don't hide any fees.
There's no hidden costs,
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So we're going to do that for
all the new day viewers anytime.
Jonathan, thank you so much as it's
been a very interesting conversation.
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