The Leventhal Firm in Encinitas handles state and federal criminal defense from its Encinitas Boulevard office under California State Bar license #255437. Case coverage spans DUI, domestic violence, drug offenses, and white-collar matters, a scope that occasionally overlaps with the cannabis-defense focus at McElfresh Law, Inc. in the same building at 531 Encinitas Blvd. Founded in 2015 after seven years in the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office, the firm brings felony-unit trial experience to San Diego County courtrooms and carries National Trial Lawyers Top 100 designation. Post-disposition compliance frequently requires Live Scan fingerprinting for record-clearance filings, a process coordinated through CLS Insurance Services on the same corridor. Highest-complexity matters include multi-defendant federal conspiracy cases under 18 U.S.C. Section 371, Penal Code Section 1001.36 mental-health diversion petitions, and forensic cross-examination of breath-alcohol and DNA evidence.