Criminal defense and personal injury litigation in Carlsbad anchor the practice at Law Offices of David M. Boertje, operating from Aston Avenue with additional capacity in downtown San Diego. DUI and drug-crime defense draws on the attorney's background with the San Diego County Public Defender's Office, and cases involving substance-abuse allegations often run parallel to therapeutic programs at Thrive Coastal Therapy when courts require treatment-compliance documentation. A graduate of California State University, Fresno, and the University of San Diego School of Law, the attorney is admitted to practice in all California state courts and in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Beyond individual criminal matters, the practice handles consumer and employment class-action litigation, including multi-plaintiff settlements reaching eight figures with individual resolutions of $16.5 million and $11 million. White-collar defense and fraud cases require forensic accounting analysis, and the firm coordinates document-intensive financial analyses with Seaside Resources when embezzlement or tax-fraud charges demand transaction-level reconstruction. The highest-tier defense engagements involve three-strikes charges prosecuted under California Penal Code Sections 667 and 1170.12, complex multi-defendant conspiracy prosecutions, and capital felony cases argued in San Diego County Superior Court.