Reviews

George Schraer is an excellent attorney, with 40+ years of experience in law. I have been a client of George since 2018, and continue to retain George for any legal matters in which we need counsel. Whenever I have queries, George always responds swiftly, in fact within a few minutes, and provides additional guidance and support. After having experienced ineffective and incompetent attorneys in the past, who had promised the world and delivered nothing, George's counsel was a welcome relief. Rather than taking our money at the first opportunity, George initially declined to represent my husband Dylan on appeal. This was also a huge part of what stood out to us about George. We didn't feel he was striving to sell us his service, but rather, gave us the confidence that we could depend on him to provide a rigorous review of Dylan's case. So we convinced George to draft a commutation application on Dylan's behalf. He did exemplary work in that regard, and took it upon himself to review Dylan's trial transcripts. To our excitement, George pointed out an issue which has become the focus of an appeal and relief in my husband's case. I would highly recommend George to anybody in a similar situation. George is reliable, straightforward, and his work is highly invaluable. The following is a statement from my incarcerated husband, Dylan: "George Schraer helped me put together a great commutation and found a crucial arguable issue for me in my case. I give this guy 5 stars. Awesome work. I have had bad luck with lawyers prior to George. I finally caught a break. George was great and helped me astronomically. Thanks George. If you ever read this, kudos to you. Dylan"

I hired Mr Schraer to help with litigation for a friend of mine with a very serious sentence. Mr. Schraer promise a lot but deliver little. He postponed his work with the case with endless excuses. "I'll start next week, I'm on this in two weeks, I'm a little delayed but hope to get this done next month and so on". When we are on a critical time limit this is not the way to do it. When he finally reviewed our case 6 months later than promised he found nothing he could use. Very convenient if you ask me, then he didn't have to bother doing any real work or investigation on the case, even if it had obvious issues. Luckily I was able to terminate the contract with Mr Schraer and move on to another lawyer who was interested in helping us.

Mr. George Schraer had selected the inncorrect date that Trial had started. He chose a date of the Pre Trial Motions, 402 Hearing as the start of Trial. It was not a mistake because it was pointed out to him and he still did not make the change or correct this critical date. Critical because this was an appeal and if corrected to the actual start of Trial Date, it would increase the time to an additional 5 days. However, even when he was told and faced with the facts of when trials actualy start, and would not change the date. The Judge, DA and Defense Attorney all state in the transcripts when trial began but George failed and kept his trial date which was incorrect.

George Schraer has been representing clients in criminal appeals in California longer, better, and with more heart than almost any other attorney in the state. I know this because I was an Appellate Project Staff Attorney for almost 40 years and have worked with or supervised just about every attorney in the state who does this work. You can't do better than George. If anyone can win your case, he can.

I'm another of George's colleagues and I agree with everything everyone (other than Mr. Abraham) has said. I'd add that between the surname Abraham and the information in the posting, it wasn't too hard to find the online information about the case, and one of the things it tells me is that the case is still still pending. The oral argument was last Thursday. (So George did do a bit more than just write the two briefs.) It will probably be at least a month or so before the court issues a decision. So it's not entirely clear what Mr. Abraham is complaining about. His son could still win his appeal. Also, inquiring minds want to know: if he didn't let Mr. Abraham see the finished product, how does Mr. Abraham know that there were spelling and grammar errors in the version that was filed?

I have known of George Schraer during my entire 40-year career as an appellate lawyer. I have referred to his briefing when working on my cases, and attended many seminars where George was a speaker. I have always been impressed with George's intelligence, his empathy, and his thoroughness. George gets my highest recommendation!

I have regularly consulted George whenever I have a complex or unique legal issue related to criminal defense. George always has the answer and often briefing right on point. George has won many groundbreaking cases in the California Courts of Appeal, the California Supreme Court, and the federal courts. I highly recommend George for motions in the trial court, appellate, and post conviction litigation.

In response to Mr. Abraham's post, George is a colleague of mine. I know for a fact that his son does not work and has never worked for the San Diego Attorney General’s office. He is currently a research attorney for a justice on the 2nd Distict California Court of Appeal in Los Angeles. This is easily verifiable through the State Bar which shows his work address on the court of appeal. Prior to that, he did court-appointed appellate defense, also in Los Angeles. This inaccuracy makes me skeptical of the remaining claims in Mr. Abraham's post. However, in fairness to Mr. Abraham, quite often clients and their family members do not have a full understanding of the law and the restraints that appellate attorneys must operate under nor a full appreciation of how difficult it is to obtain relief on appeal once a jury has found the accused guilty or the accused has entered a plea. I have no specific knowledge of Mr. Abraham's son's case, but I have no doubt that George Schraer did everything possible within the limits of the law to obtain a favorable result for his client. George Schraer is on the short list of appellate attorneys whom I would recommend to someone seeking to retain counsel in a criminal appeal.