Allen R. Bloom

About this office:

Recipient of San Diego Criminal Defense Bar Association; Career Service Award; (2008), "Conant Trial Attorney of the Year"; (1998), "Directors Award for Excellence" (1999), and former President of the San Diego Criminal Defense Bar Association (1998-99), Attorney Allen Bloom is one of San Diego's most successful and effective Criminal Defense Attorneys. For the past 35 years, he has dedicated his professional career to representing those accused of crimes and has handled - with considerable success - some of the most difficult and highly publicized cases in San Diego and throughout California and adjoining states.

He is rated as a Class 7 attorney, one of very few throughout the county of San Diego, the highest rating available for attorneys as designated by the San Diego County Judicial Attorney Review Committee, indicating a qualification level capable of handling cases as difficult as capital murders.

He has extensive trial experience in defense of serious felony cases, homicides, capital cases, and extensive experience in post-conviction matters.

He has been attorney of record in hundreds of serious felony trials, several thousand criminal cases including juvenile matters and has filed writs, appeals, motions, and other matters in United States Supreme Court, Circuit Court of Appeal, District Courts, California Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, Superior and Misdemeanor Courts in San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Francisco, Madera, Alameda, and in the state of Nevada.

He has acted as Judge, Pro Tem of the Municipal Court, State of California and as Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, Thomas Jefferson/Western State University School, and National University School of Law.

Criminal Defense; Trial Practice; Appellate Practice; Parole; Probation; Attempted Murder; Serious Felonies; Juvenile Law; Weapons; Vehicular Manslaughter; Aggravated Assault; Aggravated Battery; Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer; Burglary; Child Abuse or Neglect; Child Pornography; Concealed Firearm; Credit Card Fraud; Criminal Law; Delivery of Drugs; Domestic Violence; Drug Crimes; Drug Distribution/Sales; Drug Manufacturing; Drug Possession; Drug Trafficking; DUI; Federal Criminal Law; Felonies; Fraud; Grand Theft; Healthcare Fraud; Homicide; Immigration Crimes; Indecent Exposure; Insurance Fraud; Internet Crimes; Juvenile Crimes; Kidnapping; Lewd and Lascivious Conduct; Manufacture of Drugs; Misdemeanors; Molestation; Mortgage Fraud; Murder; Organized Fraud; Other Federal Crimes; Possession of Drug Paraphernalia; Practicing Dentistry without a License; Practicing Medicine without a License; Probation on Violations; Property Crimes; Prostitutions; Rape; Resisting with Violence; Robbery; Securities Fraud; Sex Crimes; Sexual Assault; Sexual Battery; Shoplifting; Solicitation of a Minor; Statutory Rape; Tampering; Theft; Uttering a Forged Instrument; Vehicular Homicide; Weapons offenses; White Collar Crime; Appeals; Post Conviction; Parole Hearings; Writs.

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