Former San Diego County Deputy District Attorney and California Bar #323323, Ari S. Lieberman opened Lieberman Law, APC in Hillcrest after prosecuting economic and white-collar fraud cases at the SD County DA's office and being admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in 2020. Federal indictments that fall outside state criminal practice—mail fraud, wire fraud, and federal drug conspiracy charges out of the Edward J. Schwartz Courthouse—route to Federal Criminal Defense Lawyers when a multi-defendant federal trial team is needed. Bilingual English-Spanish representation and explicit transgender-safespace intake make the Fourth Avenue office a referral target for LGBTQ+ clients facing domestic violence, sex offense, and CPS-adjacent criminal allegations. DUI and traffic-adjacent violent felony cases—particularly Watson murder filings and DUI causing great bodily injury under Vehicle Code §23153—often start with the trial preparation Lieberman developed during his associate years at Sevens Legal Criminal Lawyers. The firm draws from a Houston family of three generations of criminal defense lawyers, with a JD with honors and a Criminal Defense Practice concentration from California Western School of Law. Multi-count felony jury trials involving allegations of strangulation and intimate-partner assault—where independent investigation, witness interviews, and a pre-filing presentation to the deputy DA can secure a no-file before charges are ever brought—are the firm's signature work.