Miller & Associates Attorney Profiles

• Strategies for Defending DUI Cases in California (2012) (Aspatore Press/West Publishing);
• Strategies for Defending DUI Cases in California (2013) (Aspatore Press/West Publishing);

Trial Lawyer Experience Qualifications.

As a trial lawyer, he has handled over 100 trials in courts in Orange County, San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.  He has had both not guilty verdicts at trial, and dismissals through motions, as well as wins with the DMV for his clients.

With civil cases, he has handled serious civil cases through trial, to verdict in wrongful death trials, personal injury cases, premises liability cases, and business disputes, and has personally settled over two million dollars in civil case settlements for his clients.

Academic Credentials

• Doctorate of Jurisprudence, Western State University College of Law
• Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Minor in Information Systems
• Certification, Field Sobriety Testing
• National College of DUI Defense Trial Skills Graduate, Harvard Law School, Cambridge Massachusetts.

Areas of Specialization:

Known as one of the top Orange County DUI Lawyers, Robert focuses, as a DUI Defense lawyer, on helping clients with Orange County DUI Defense matters, assisting clients with their court case, and handling DMV and suspended license cases, and related driving or aaddiction-relatedmatters.

Our firm also handles the Expungement of DUI cases and other matters in Orange County, and certain other limited areas of law.

Case Results

Mr. Miller has had a number of positive outcomes for clients, listed on our case results page.

Some of the details on how the outcomes were obtained are listed on the Case Study pages for specific individual cases.

Giving Back – Charitable Actions, Donations, and Advisement

Mr. Miller is active in local Orange County charities, participating in events with Corazon De Vida in Irvine, and was for a decade a volunteer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County.  He also previously served on the events board of Olive Crest Children’s Homes and is active in Orange County Charity Events for Karma International.

In the legal world, Mr. Miller serves as a mentor to law students at the University of California Irvine School of Law, and at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, where he is a regular lecturer and advisor to the Student Career Center.

Robert Miller serves on the board of the Skeptoid Foundation, a non-profit, and is an executive at Karma International.

Bar Admissions and Date of Admission:

• Supreme Court of California, 1995
• United States Central District of California, 1995
• United States District Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1995
• United States Southern District of California, 2002
• Supreme Court of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., 2002.

Professional Memberships, Past and Present, include: 

• National College for DUI Defense,
• California DUI Lawyers Association,
• National DUI Defense Lawyers Association,
• American Bar Association,
• American Association for Justice,
• National Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (NCDLA),
• California State Bar,
• Federal Bar Association,
• Consumer Attorneys of California,
• American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys,
• Los Angeles County Bar Association,
• San Diego County Bar Association,
• Orange County Bar Association,
• Hispanic Bar Association,
• Riverside Bar Association,
• Beverly Hills Bar Association,
• North Orange County Bar Association,
• West Orange County Bar Association,
• Harbor Orange County Bar Association,
• South Orange County Bar Association
• American Inns of Court, and
• Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association.

• publications

  PUBLICATION NAME	TITLE	DATE
  BOOK (ASPATORE PRESS)	Strategies for Defending DUI Cases in California (Co-Author)	2014
  WASHINGTON POST	Inmates Review Prisons on Yelp	2013
  THE DAILY MAIL	Prisoners Review Their Jails on Yelp	2013
  ABA JOURNAL	A Five-Star Prison	2013
  INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES	Inmates Reviewing Prisons And Jail Facilities On Yelp; Lawyer Robert Miller Calls Controversial Service Valuable	2013
  GOVTECH.COM	Inmates Rate Jails on Yelp	2013
  ASPATORE BOOK PUBLICATION	Strategies for Defending DUI Cases in California (Co-Author)	2013
  CALIFORNIA LAWYER MAGAZINE	Phylogeny and Ontogeny and Legal Writing	2006
  SKEPTIC MAGAZINE	Quantum Physics and Christian “Science”	1998
  ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER	Book Review: My Best Book	1992

  Speaking ENGAGEMENTS

  CONFERENCE NAME	TITLE	DATE
  CHAPMAN LAW SCHOOL INTERVIEW WEEK	Interviewing for Law Students	2014
  CACJ LEGAL TECHNOLOGY ANNUAL SEMINAR	Legal Technology and Law Practice	2012
  DUI “RULES OF THE ROAD” SEMINAR	Legal Technology	2011
  CRIMINAL DEFENSE SEMINAR 2007	Criminal Law, Criminal Defense, Whittier Law School	2007
  UPDATES IN DUI DEFENSE	DUI Defense	2004
  STARTING A SMALL LAW FIRM: PRACTICE TIPS	Law Firm Management, Whittier Law School	2001

• Civic Memberships include: 

  Newport Beach Junior Chamber of Commerce, (where Mr. Miller was the former legal counsel), and was a member of the Irvine Chamber of Commerce.

Media Coverage

As a lawyer, Robert Miller has made many media appearances, and has also been cited as a legal expert in many television mentions, radio appearances, and mentions in print publications regarding his work, including the following, among over 50 others:

• The Washington Post, “With few other outlets for complaints, inmates review prisons on Yelp“, 2013.
• Raw Story, “Colbert shares Yelp prison reviews for benefit of ‘violent criminals’ in his audience“, 2013.
• Adweek.Com, “The Country’s Best Bars — Inmates Review Prisons On Yelp“, 2013.
• Algeminier.com, “Yelp Prison Review: “Say You’re Jewish” If You End Up at Rikers Island“, 2013.
• RollOnFriday.uk, “Going to Prison?  First Read the Reviews“, 2013.

You can view each Miller and Associates Attorney Profiles through the link at the top, or contact Robert Miller through the website contact us page, or by email directly at rmiller [at] expertlawfirm.com.