Los Angeles DMV Hearing Attorney

There are two branches to a Los Angeles DUI charge. One is the criminal court process, and the other is the DMV hearing. At Okabe & Haushalter, we believe that the DMV hearing is as important as the criminal trial and is best handled by a skilled Los Angeles DUI attorney.

Although a DMV hearing is an administrative hearing which does not take place in court or in front of a judge, its outcome will still have lasting effects upon a driver who has been charged with DUI. The DMV hearing, also called an administrative per se or APS hearing, is held in regards to the suspension of your driving privileges. Upon a Los Angeles DUI arrest, the arresting officer will confiscate your California driver’s license and serve you with a Notice of Suspension, which will act as a 30-day temporary license.

If you do not schedule your DMV hearing within 10 days of receiving your Notice of Suspension, your driver’s license will be automatically suspended 30 days from the date of the Notice.

Los Angeles DUI Lawyer

We understand the important role that a Los Angeles DUI lawyer plays at a DMV hearing. Not only can an attorney at our firm schedule your hearing for you, but we will also prepare for your hearing as we would for a criminal court appearance, fully preparing everything we need in order to give you the best opportunity of having your driving privileges reinstated.

Only the California DMV can suspend or revoke your driver’s license, and only the DMV can give you your license back or allow you to have limited driving privileges. At our law firm, our Los Angeles DMV hearing attorneys and lawyers work hard to offer our clients only the best representation at their DMV hearings.

Los Angeles DMV Hearings & DUI

A DMV hearing will be held at your local Drivers Safety Office of the DMV. At the hearing, your guilt or innocence in regards to your Los Angeles DUI charges will not be addressed – in fact, the outcome of your hearing has no bearing on the outcome of your criminal case. The DMV is only concerned with whether to suspend or reinstate your license. The following issues will be addressed:

• Did the law enforcement officer have reasonable cause to believe that you were driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs?
• Were you lawfully arrested?
• Were you driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .08% or greater?

A Los Angeles DUI lawyer at our firm will work to fight your license suspension based upon the three factors listed above, using specific knowledge of drunk driving laws and cases in order to build the most effective DUI defense possible.

Contact a Los Angeles DMV hearing attorney at our firm regarding your license suspension and DUI.