HISTORY
Legal services for indigent clients since 1988.
FACTS
75+ attorneys employed as well as investigative and clerical staff.
Our Values
Mission
Our firm, Fitzgerald, Alvarez & Ciummo, a PLC, has been providing legal services for indigent clients since 1988. Our mission is to provide our clients with the highest quality legal representation and to safeguard their constitutional rights at every stage of their proceeding. We currently provide these services in six counties in California. We further contract with the Fresno County Superior Court for juvenile dependency services.
Our firm provides indigent criminal defense services in all adult criminal matters, ranging from misdemeanors to capital cases, as well as in juvenile delinquency and dependency matters.
Our firm currently has over 75 attorneys employed as well as investigative and clerical staff. Our firm’s delivery methodology is to use fully staffed offices of attorneys, investigators and clerical staff to provide these services. All resources necessary to achieve our mission are provided by employees of the firm in several offices throughout the counties in which we operate.
COUNTIES
FRESNO
Telephone: 559-441-0114
MADERA
Telephone: 559-674-4696
MERCED
Telephone: 209-691-7280
SAN BENITO
Telephone: 831-205-5980
AMADOR
Telephone: 209-223-0877
Our administrative and management models are tried and true and our performance over the past 25 years speaks for itself. We have always fulfilled our contractual obligations and pride ourselves in developing first-rate attorneys.
Michael Fitzgerald
CEO & President
Mr. Fitzgerald was admitted to the California bar in 1991. His first legal employment was with the firm starting in 1991. Prior to his entry into management, Mr. Fitzgerald was an experienced trial attorney.
Antonio R. Alvarez
Shareholder & Vice President
Chief Defense Attorney - Fresno
In 2020, the firm’s name was changed to Fitzgerald, Alvarez & Ciummo when Antonio R. Alvarez became a shareholder.
Mr. Alvarez began his criminal law career with this firm in 1992. In 1994 he became a prosecutor with the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office where he primarily prosecuted violent felonies ranging from sexual assaults, gang and murder cases. Mr. Alvarez was a member of the DA Office’s Homicide Unit when he re-joined the firm in 2008. Since returning he has handled every manner of serious and violent felonies, including death penalty cases throughout California.
Mr. Alvarez graduated from UCLA School of Law in May of 1991 and was admitted to the California State Bar in December of the same year.
Richard Ciummo
Consultant
Mr. Ciummo commenced his employment with the firm in 1988 progressing from staff attorney, to Chief Defense Attorney of the firm’s main Fresno office, to Chief Executive Officer, and finally to the sole shareholder of the firm. Mr. Ciummo remains employed by the firm as a consultant and coordinator of special projects.
CONTACT
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123 E Fourth St. Madera, CA 93 638
Phone: 559.673-7227 • Fax: 559.673-6135