Michael Hernandez
His firm's rideshare page lives at a URL that is not a topic but a sentence someone might type into a search box — `find-me-a-san-diego-lawyer-who-has-experience-with-rideshare-accident-cases-near-me`. It also closes with a biography of a different partner.
The bar record
We read Michael Hernandez in the State Bar of California’s licensee search. The practice-area and language rows are the lawyer’s own; the Bar prints above them that it does not verify their accuracy and makes no warranties about competence.
California states plainly what it hides — and it is not this. Above every status history the Bar warns that some administrative suspensions are removed from display under its own removal policy, and it defines those as non-disciplinary: unpaid fees, missed education. Disciplinary matters are not covered by that policy, and one listing on this page proves the field works — two suspensions, two case numbers and five linked court documents, still on display years later. So a clean status history here means more than a clean one in Washington. It still does not mean the Bar has told us everything.
What the record shows
The page’s address is /find-me-a-san-diego-lawyer-who-has-experience-with-rideshare-accident-cases-near-me/ and its opening paragraph puts the same sentence in the reader’s mouth. It is a page built around a search phrase rather than a subject — which does not make its contents wrong, but does tell you what it is for.Verified
Its substance is sound where it matters: it sets out the three coverage phases with figures and states plainly that in Phase 2 the rideshare policy is contingent and applies only if the driver’s personal insurer denies or falls short. That contingency is the single most-omitted fact in this batch.Verified
The page ends not with Hernandez but with a headed biography of Elliot H. Jung, a different partner at the firm. Hernandez’s own name appears once in the body, in a list of three founders.Verified
His register records Spanish spoken by the attorney and by staff.Verified
What the firm says
He says he interned for the San Diego Public Defender’s office, won the most criminal defence jury trials in the county in each of his first two years, and attended the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in 2016.Reported
He says he obtained an $18 million verdict in an insurance bad faith action and a $2.7 million verdict in a car accident matter. We print no verdict figures.Reported
He says the firm’s founding partners tried over 100 jury trials in their first five years and that the firm has over 750 five-star Google reviews.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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