When hiring a law firm, some clients
question which attorney or associate is
actually working on their case. At Hintz
& Welch the answer is simple: Eric Hintz
or Joe Welch.
These partners maintain their thriving
practice based on a simple working principle:
do the work yourself. This handson
approach means Hintz & Welch
employs no associate attorneys, so all
clients are assured of personal service
by one of its dedicated partners.
“No one else ever does the work as
well as you can do it yourself,” says
Hintz.
The two-man team specializes in criminal
defense and personal injury cases,
spending much of its time in the courtroom
helping citizens and families who
find themselves in trouble. “We don’t
hesitate to help people in need,” says
Welch.
Particular areas of expertise include
white-collar crime, felonies, misdemeanors,
homicides, DUI, juvenile criminal
defense, drug crimes and sex crimes.
They practice criminal and civil law in
state and federal courts spanning the
entire northern California region. The
duo has also found particular success in
product liability and plaintiff’s personal
injury cases.
The experienced trial lawyers met in
the mid-1980s in a downtown athletic
club while each was studying to pass his
bar exam. Welch, a graduate of Sacramento’s
McGeorge School of Law, and
Hintz, a graduate of Hastings College of
Law in San Francisco, became fast friends
and watched their families and careers blossom
into the 1990s. They took vacations together
with their families, each sporting four
boys, then joined forces in 1994 to form
Hintz & Welch.
Hintz is heard regularly as a legal commentator
on local television and radio. Both
men are also heavily involved in community
and church activities, which reflects back
into their law practice.
“No one else ever does the work as
well as you can do it yourself.”
“Just as you’d treat your own brother
is the way we’d like our clients to be
treated,” says Welch. “When you’re in
trouble you need trust and confidence in
your attorney, and we provide that.”
Committed to their unique hands-on
approach to practicing law, new business
comes almost exclusively via referrals
from satisfied clients or other attorneys.
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