You Voted! Top 7 Lawyers in San Diego

You nominated, you campaigned, and you voted your hearts out. Now, reap the rewards and check out the 7 lawyers and firms whom you have decided are the best in San Diego. We've broken it down by category, so check out the best commercial lawyer, best criminal lawyer, best estate lawyer, and more! Then, be sure to vote for your favorite San Diego design company and to nominate your favorite wedding designers and venues in our upcoming April polls!

Best Family Law Lawyer in San Diego

Winner: Puja Sachdev of Sachdev Legal Group 

Puja A. Sachdev is a certified Family Law Specialist who focuses on family law, child support, and divorce cases.  Her degree is from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, graduating cum laude. As a Family Law Specialist, Sachdev met rigorous requirements set by the California State Bar, which includes fulfilling specific educational prerequisites and receiving favorable recommendations from colleagues and the judiciary. 

On top of her education, she is a trained family law mediator and received her training from Forrest Mosten of Mosten Mediation in Los Angeles, California. Their training focuses on skill building and creative resolutions. She uses these skills when she works with the San Diego County Superior Courts. Sachdev is widely recognized as one of San Diego’s top attorneys receiving honors from San Diego Daily Transcript, SD Metro Magazine, San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Programs, and Super Lawyers. She’s been featured in the Alumni Spotlight by San Diego State University and has been on panel for the San Diego County Bar Association.

Best Commercial, Corporate, and Construction Lawyer

Winner: Erwin Shustak of Shustak Reynolds & Partners

Erwin Shustak is one of the founding partners of Shustak Reynolds & Partners, and he heads the firm’s Litigation and Arbitration Department. His specialty is in litigation, trials, and appeals of complex business, securities and financial fraud disputes. He has represented public and private companies that include financial institutions, and government agencies, including the FDIC, the Resolution Trust Corporation, manufacturing firms, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and defrauded investors. His trial experience includes breach of contract, real estate transactions and disputes, employment disputes, unfair competition, non-compete and restrictive covenant cases, as well as  intellectual property disputes including copyright and trademark infringement. 

Shustak has been voted as one of San Diego’s "Best of Bar" in 2015 and 2014 and as Top Litigator of 2014 by American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel magazines. Shustak began his career at the prominent firm of Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler in New York City. He now resides in Del Mar, California. His hobbies include sailing and skiing, but he is also active in a number of pro bono projects.

Best Criminal Lawyer in San Diego

Winner: Mary Prevost of Mary Prevost Law Firm

Mary Prevost graduated from The George Washington University in Washington DC in 1983. Her professional background experience is in working as an investigative reporter. She worked for The Washington Post and the WJLA-TV Channel 7. She spent years working in DC, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia as a reporter where she covered subjects such as government corruption on the local and national level. 

This inspired her to go to law school at California Western School of Law in San Diego, California so she could earn a degree that would allow her to fight government corruption and misconduct. Presently, she runs her own practice where she represents people with murder cases, border crimes, drug and alien smuggling, sexual assault, robbery, DUI, and vehicular manslaughter. She also handles civil rights cases that include police brutality claims, sexual harassment, and racial and age discrimination. 

Best Estate, Probate, and Trust Lawyer

Winner: Nastaran Parvizi of Duisters & Parvizi, LLP

Nastaran Parvizi is a managing partner and co-founder of Duisters & Parvizi. Parvizi was born in Iran and moved to Sweden where she was raised the majority of her life. After graduating high school, she moved to the United States and attended Georgia State University, graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelors of Science in Criminal Justice. In order to help people recover from distress from unfortunate circumstances Parvizi pursued law. She moved to San Diego and attended Thomas Jefferson School of Law. At the same time she also attended The Guanghua Law School in Hangzhou, China as a visiting scholar. 

Parvizi worked for one of the most renowned criminal defense attorneys assisting in several high profile cases, but after witnessing first-hand the devastation of losing a loved one she recognized a need to assist families and preserve assets. As a result, she shifted her focus from criminal law to civil law and co-founded Duisters & Parvizi. 

Best Tax and Government, or Bankruptcy Lawyer

Winner: Daniel Gamez of Gamez Law Firm

Daniel R. Gamez is an attorney that focuses exclusively in debt settlement. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University and received a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice. He served as an advocate for juvenile services both as a youth counselor and probation officer for several years. He rehabilitated a significant number of juveniles by keeping them out of long-term lock up facilities. Helping people made him realize that he should go to law school, so he enrolled in South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas. Once he passed the bar, Daniel and his wife Jennifer moved to Southern California. 

He accumulated a lot of litigation experience during law school when he clerked with in-house counsel for a Texas insurance company defending claims. He was elected as an intern with 1st Court of Appeals after completing just one semester of law school. In 2005 Gamez accepted an offer to work at the San Diego Law Firm of Pite Duncan, LLP. After six years, he decided to return to some more personal work with helping people in debt settlement and freeing clients from debt once it is eliminated. 

Best Overall Lawyer in San Diego

Winner: Brian Robbins of Robbins Arroyo LLP

Brian Robbins is the co-founder and managing partner of Robbins Arroyo LLP. His commitment is to representing shareholders, employees, consumers, and small business in complicated litigation cases. He believes in the power of shareholder derivative action as a tool to keep corporate mismanagement and fraud in check. This philosophy has earned the firm recognition as a leader in shareholder rights litigation. Before starting Robbins Arroyo LLP, he worked at three plaintiff class action firms where he represented clients in shareholder derivative, and consumer class actions. 

Robbins received his Master of Law Degree in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center and his Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt Law School. 

Best Overall Law Firm in San Diego

Winner: Klueck & Hoppes, APC

The attorney behind the Law & Mediation firm of Klueck & Hoppes, APC is Garrison Klueck. He has been practicing law for twenty-six years and is certified as a Specialist-Family Law, State of California, Board of Legal Specialization trained in collaborative and cooperative law. He is also credentialed as a mediator from the National Dispute Resolution Center. He has received much recognition, including being named a Super Lawyer from 2007 to 2011 and appearing on television and radio shows such as San Diego 6 and as a guest expert on CW 6-TV. Radio appearances include speaking on National Public Radio.

This firm serves the San Diego area and Southern California. They help people successfully face family law challenges like divorce, and child custody disputes. These can be difficult things for the family to face, and Klueck and Hoppes, APC is dedicated to guiding families through it in order to gain the best possible results.