Eisner Gorin LLP is a criminal defense firm in Los Angeles, and that is the whole of what it does. No personal injury sideline, no family law to round out the billing. The listing opens onto a DUI page that splits first, second, third, and fourth offense, then runs on into felony DUI, DUI causing injury, boating DUI, DMV hearings, and the commercial and rideshare variants. Before you read a line of marketing copy, the structure has already told you the firm lives in one area of law and has mapped it in detail.

A defense practice built on DUI cases

The rest of the practice list backs up that opening. Drug crimes get broken out by conduct (possession, sales, trafficking, transportation, manufacturing) and by substance (methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana), with prescription fraud and money laundering attached. From there the menu covers sex crimes, white-collar offenses, violent crimes, weapons charges, theft, and domestic violence. Then the parts most firms skip past: appeals, habeas corpus petitions, asset forfeiture, expungements, and post-conviction relief. A defendant standing in a booking cell is not thinking about habeas or forfeiture, and the fact that Eisner Gorin LLP names them reads as a firm that stays on a case after the verdict, not one that closes the file the moment sentencing ends.

Drug charges appeals and post-conviction relief

Procedurally the coverage runs through arraignment, bail hearings, preliminary hearings, jury trials, sentencing, and parole hearings. Useful, if you are trying to work out whether a firm tries cases or quietly pleads them all out. Both named partners, Alan Eisner and Dmitry Gorin, are State Bar Certified Criminal Law Specialists, a credential California hands to a small fraction of its bar, and Eisner Gorin LLP was founded with a third partner, Robert Hill. Spanish and Russian service widens the pool of people who can use it.

Certified specialists behind the firm

Two certified specialists in a field where that certification is uncommon is the load-bearing fact here, and it does most of the work on its own. Around it Eisner Gorin LLP stacks the usual honors: a "Top 1% Law Firm" mention from U.S. News and World Report, an AV-Preeminent rating (the top tier of the Martindale peer-review scale), a Best Lawyers listing, and, on a separate San Fernando Valley lawyer directory, a Pre-Eminent Top 5 percent U.S. firm tag, which is the same AV credential turning up in a second spot. These are peer- and editor-driven marks. They place the firm among other lawyers; they say nothing about what happened to any actual client. Read them as standing, not as proof of result.

Awards and peer ratings

On the client side the numbers are heavier than you usually find for criminal work, where unhappy clients tend to be loud because the facts were ugly before any lawyer walked in. Birdeye shows 4.9 stars across 161 reviews. Yelp carries 58 reviews on the Avenue of the Stars office and 27 on the Ventura Boulevard one. Dmitry Gorin's Avvo profile sits at 10 of 10 with more than 120 five-star client reviews. That is genuine depth, and across that many independent platforms it counts for more than a single glowing page would. The firm also keeps its own recommendations page, which is curated and reads as a complement to the outside sources, not a replacement for them.

Client reviews across platforms

Contact is handled cleanly by Eisner Gorin LLP. The phone number rides the top of every page, both offices are listed (2121 Avenue of the Stars and 16000 Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley), and the firm advertises 24/7 availability with a free immediate response. For someone whose relative was just booked at 2 a.m., one number doing the same job everywhere is the practical detail.

Phone lines office locations and hours

The Information Center is worth a separate line. It is a library of legal guides on evidence rules, motions, defenses, diversion programs, and how court processes move. Most firms post a short FAQ and call the page done; Eisner Gorin LLP put up closer to reference material, and someone trying to understand whether pretrial diversion fits their charge, or what a motion to suppress evidence does, can get oriented here without dialing anyone. It is also a fair way to test whether the firm knows the terrain, since the writing either earns trust or exposes the gaps.

So the honest picture: exclusively criminal work, two certified specialists, procedural reach into appeals and post-conviction relief, and a stack of independent client feedback that is, for once, deep enough to mean something. Where it stops is outcomes. A 4.9 average across 161 reviews tells you people were satisfied; it does not tell a person facing a specific felony how Eisner Gorin LLP performs on a charge like theirs, in front of the particular court and prosecutor assigned to it. A high average can sit perfectly comfortably next to losses that were unwinnable from day one, and an Avvo profile reflects the wins far more eagerly than the cases that went sideways. Nothing public separates favorable pleas from matters actually fought to a verdict, which is the line that decides whether the trial-ready posture is earned.

Set against Brian Kurtz, a Los Angeles solo defender who publishes individual case results case by case, Eisner Gorin LLP gives you stronger credentials and far more review volume but a vaguer record of what it does once a case is contested. Both readings are defensible. If the certifications and the sheer weight of client feedback settle it for you, this is a serious shop and you can act on it. If you want to see specific results before you trust the trial talk, you will have to drag those out of Eisner Gorin LLP yourself, because the listing does not volunteer them.