Reviews

Fabulous guy, upstanding too say the least.

He really cares about his clients and did a fantastic job helping me out with my knee. Mr. Harvey listened to everything I had to say and truly cared about me. He was able to help me out greatly and get me compensation so that I could recover well. I would highly recommend him to anyone that needs help with workers comp.

Dennis was instrumental in helping my family settle an estate without a will. The case was further complicated by the fact we were out of state and I was thankful to have local legal counsel representing our interests. Dennis supported our position, offered valuable insight and maintained much needed persistence to resolve our case.

My older sister and I turned to Dennis James Balsamo a SLO attorney because he specialized in Probate Law and was listed on an Internet Christian directory for attorneys. Since we lived in other areas of CA/WA, his representation of us was much to an extent by email and telephone. We retained his firm in July 2014, and were able to close our litigation against a younger sibling (within 2 years); who willfully failed to comply with State of California Probate Law, and thought she could do it her way instead of the proper State of CA way. Thanks to Dennis, who provided valuable wisdom, honesty, showed a high interest in our problem, his ability to sort things out for us, his legal expertise, advice, and guidance, he was able to get the job done against her well seasoned Probate attorney. He helped stop her from plundering the Trust for her own selfish goals. Keeping us informed at all times, Dennis led us to a satisfactory conclusion in a timely manner. Dennis is trustworthy with high integrity and should we ever need an attorney again will look to him first! We highly recommend him to others.

I needed to sue my former attorney who lost almost 1M dollars in benefits, property & money; I had been a victum of a natural disaster . Dennis took my case and managed it efficienty, pragmatically and empathetically. I am lucky to have found him and highly recommend him to others.

Dennis Balsamo has been my attorney for over 6 years. My father passed away leaving us in a horrible mess. Dennis has won our litigation hands down, taking us all the way to The Supreme Court, because of his tenacity and above all because he cares. I no longer consider him my attorney...he's my friend! And if we looked anything alike, we'd be family. :-) Most honest and trustworthy person I've met to date. He's gone above and beyond the call of duty in our case. He stepped up to help out with things that weren't related just because he cared. Call him and you'll know just what I mean. He shoots it straight. Simple as that! I recommend him to the highest extent. Thanks Dennis for always being there. 1.5 :-)

Dennis is everything I needed and I would use his services anytime! Working with Dennis brings a calmness and a sense that everything will be taken care of. And I (the client) can take the worrying out of my daily schedule.

I was desperate to find an attorney on my personal injury case as the statute of limitations was looming, and no one seemed to believe me when I told them I was injured when my own truck ran over me. With two weeks to go before the statute of limitations would expire I was referred by a friend to Dennis. He met with me the same day, listened to my story and said he do some free research to see if there had been other incidents of Chrysler trucks suddenly shifting into gear and injuring people. Within a day or two he called me and said he had found another case similar to mine and the cause was a know defect in the shifter of certain Chrysler trucks...and mine was one of those. That same week he filed a lawsuit to protect me and immediately engaged in settlement negotiations. Ultimately he got me a million dollar + settlement. Throughout my ordeal he and his staff were there for me. Calls were promptly returned and he would not get upset if I popped in unannounced to ask a quick question. I can honestly say that without Dennis I would not have been compensated for my injuries and my family would still think I was crazy. He's my lawyer for life. I cannot recommend him highly enough.

As with the other reviewer of Mr. Balsamo, I too had a very unfortunate experience with him. First, he would not return phone calls unless I called several times. I found him to be very combative with the attorneys on the other side, which caused more conflict and expense than necessary. When I would ask for an accounting, he would get very short with me. So I decided to see if I could find more out about him, and low & behold, in the SLO court public records he was sued by a former client. The suit alleged that he used money from the trust account for his own purposes. In response, he called this former client in court papers filed with the court a "bottom feeder." Wow, how professional is that. Well I disengaged from Mr. Balsamo and went elsewhere and was treated with dignity. Concerning what the other reviewer said about Mr. Balsamo's handling of his appeal, which he said went to the California Supreme Court. I researched that too and the appeals case that reviewer talked about NEVER went to the CA Supreme Court but just went to the regular appeals court and the attorney who handled the appeal was Neil Tardiff and Mr. Balsamo was just in the background who handled the lower case and when it was appealed, Mr. Balsamo engaged Mr. Tardiff who handled the appeal. This is also public record. Mr. Tardiff is a very experienced lawyer, and is listed as a "Super Lawyer" in CA who focuses on just appeals work.