California Criminal Defense Center

Attorney Ardalon Fakhimi is the general trial counsel and founder of California Criminal Defense Center. For more than 12 years, his legal career has been exclusively limited to the practice of criminal and DUI defense. In the early stages of his legal training, Mr. Fakhimi amassed a wealth of knowledge and trial experience while working and interning for the offices of the Attorney General and Public Defender. In doing so, Mr. Fakhimi gained significant insight into both criminal prosecution and criminal defense. However, the vast majority of Mr. Fakhimi’s career has been focused primarily on the defense of criminal and DUI cases. For well over a decade, Mr. Fakhimi has litigated and negotiated several thousand of such cases. Mr. Fakhimi routinely handles all facets of criminal cases, ranging from simple misdemeanors to serious and violent felonies in the Superior Court of California. Aside from DUI defense, much of Mr. Fakhimi’s criminal practice is devoted to defending: Domestic violence cases Theft offenses Vehicular offenses Drug offenses Alcohol offense He also has expert knowledge on handling alcohol and drug-related DUI cases at both the misdemeanor and felony levels, while concurrently representing clients in administrative hearings at the Drivers Safety Offices of the Department of Motor Vehicles. As a member of many nationally recognized organizations devoted to DUI defense, Mr. Fakhimi stays abreast of the most recent changes in DUI law and the scientific developments in DUI cases.