Jones Trial Attorneys

Jones Trial Attorneys is a lawyer in San Diego, California, providing trial-focused criminal defense and civil litigation representation in San Diego and throughout California. The firm handles strategic defense for misdemeanors, serious felonies, federal charges, and restraining orders, along with courtroom-focused representation for entrepreneurs, companies, and individuals in contract, fraud, construction, and business disputes. It also represents people injured in motor-vehicle accidents, including car, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian, and bicycle collisions, and offers formation, governance, founder agreements, risk management, and outside general counsel services. The firm is based in San Diego County and regularly accepts matters in San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties, and serves clients in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Tagalog. Sean founded Jones Trial Attorneys on the principle that clients facing serious problems deserve lawyers willing and able to take those problems into a courtroom. His practice spans criminal defense and civil jury trials, with an emphasis on strategic case development, direct client communication, and persuasive advocacy. He is admitted in California and Nevada and in the U.S. The team includes Heather Panick, a shareholder and attorney licensed in Texas and Nebraska who serves California matters primarily as a paralegal and previously practiced employment litigation at Jackson Lewis; Micheli Farias de Oliveira, a former attorney in Brazil who joined as a paralegal in 2020 and manages daily operations of the San Diego office; Nicole Anne Amor, who joined in 2025 to support the client experience from consultation through resolution; and David Rodriguez, who joined in 2023 and leads business development and client relations. Initial consultations are free by phone, video, or in person by appointment, with responses to online intake submissions within 24 hours, including weekends and holidays. The office sits on B Street in downtown San Diego, steps from 4th Avenue and the Core-Columbia neighborhood, and about a tenth of a mile from 5th Avenue, the San Diego Association of Governments offices, and the Civic Theatre. The firm's courtroom record includes not-guilty verdicts on four felony counts for a retired firefighter, an acquittal on two counts in a domestic-violence prosecution, and a unanimous acquittal of a Navy SEAL after less than an hour of jury deliberation.