Criminal Defense
Richard Orville Middlebrook
Founding Partner, Middlebrook & Associates · Bakersfield, CA
Richard Orville Middlebrook is a criminal defense attorney at Middlebrook & Associates in Bakersfield, California.
Richard Orville Middlebrook was admitted to the State Bar of California on December 6, 1993, and holds an active license, bar number 167723 [1]. He earned his law degree at the University of California, Davis, School of Law [1]. His office is located at 8501 Brimhall Rd, Suite 404, in Bakersfield [1].
Middlebrook is the founding partner of Middlebrook & Associates, a firm that concentrates on DUI defense in Bakersfield, Kern County, and surrounding areas [2]. The firm reports more than 200 DUI trials handled and represented the fifty-one petitioners in Cisneros v. DMV, an appeal decided by the Fifth District Court of Appeal concerning driver's license suspensions [2].
The firm's website notes recognition as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in America for DUI Defense, inclusion in Los Angeles Magazine's Top Attorneys in Southern California 2024, and a Best of Readers' Choice 2025 honor from Bakersfield Life [2].
According to his State Bar record, Middlebrook speaks Spanish [1].
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