Reviews

I have been working with Colin Mackay in connection with an auto accident injury for the last two years. A little background for the reader I am a Paralegal at a Estate Planning law firm in Los Angeles, California. I have been working in the legal field for over 15 years. Based on my personal experience with Colin and my history working in the legal field I can say that he provides exceptional service to his clients. He always responds promptly to text messages or emails. If you do not reach out to him then he will reach out to you to make sure everything is going well with your treatment plan. He is extremely knowledgeable in his practice areas. He knows how the insurance companies work and as a result knows how to communicate with them and get information from them prior to filing a lawsuit. He gives you his honest opinion and always puts his client's treatment plans first. To me it seemed like he genuinely cared about my recovery. He always advised me to do what was in my best interest. What really impressed me was his communication skills. Sometimes my clients at my firm have to wait a week or more to hear back from our office. Colin always responds within 24 hours unless he is on a well deserved vacation (but even then he will get back to you and let you know that he is on vacation and will respond as soon as he returns). He really sets the bar for how a law firm should treat its clients. If you are in a situation where you have been injured in a auto accident DO NOT TALK TO THE INSURANCE COMPANY. Call Colin and let him do the talking for you. You will be glad you did. I highly recommend this attorney and his firm.

This was my first time selling a business and what really impressed me about Bill was when he came to the business meeting with the other side of the deal and he sat there by my side when I was making all the critical decisions about the sale of my business. Bill and I met when there were already offers on the table to purchase my retail business. I spoke to my financial advisor about where to put the proceeds from the sale, and that’s when he referred me to the law firm Sollertis and asset protection attorney Bill Simon. I had another group trying to convince me to go another way with my sale profits, but Bill’s advice was focused to get me MY goals. I can ask Bill to do anything and he will be there for me… when it comes to asset protection trusts or questions about some deal, I’m thinking about, I can text him and he’ll text me back. Sometimes I need a minute or a moment right then and there. I also want to keep updated when things happen in my business, and I like that we have that connection and relationship. Bill presented me with the idea of the Slide Trust as a solution to protecting my personal assets, minimizing my tax liability, and making it easy to leave my kids money when I’m no longer here. I wanted to keep things here domestically in the US because I feel like I have more control over the assets, but with the Slide Trust I can easily shift my wealth offshore if I ever needed to for more or different protection. So, it’s a domestic asset protection trust now, and if I ever need it to go offshore it can. This is why Bill is so smart with how he does what he does. That other group wanted me to go into some offshore insurance investment trust program right away. I’d have zero control and it’d be difficult to access the money. That’s just not attractive to me. Bill is not selling a program or a cookie-cutter template trust. I have never seen so much creativity and finesse with legal knowledge and asset protection strategy. It’s a focus on me first and always, and he’s not trying to “sell” me anything. I can essentially buy the life experience from other Sollertis cases and clients who have charted the path before me. I want to minimize my tax liability from the business profits and capital gains, so Sollertis explored the best trust for me. Bill found me the best tax advisor, and I’m so grateful. Sollertis deals with high-net-worth people all day so Bill just knows the right questions to ask. I like to go through the steps of being responsible and diligent, and with Sollertis I feel like I’m doing just that. I let a law firm handle all the details that are needed, so I don’t have to worry about making a mistake.

Thankful and grateful I listened to the friends who recommended me to Colin and his team!! Calstrat Law is very efficient, professional and empathetic throughout the entire process. Colin walked me through everything and I felt at ease every step of the way. Having to deal with an accident is never ideal, but having a competent and assertive team behind you is a Godsend. Thank you!

Colin and Tony are great partners to have in your legal corner! We had to sue for coverage of medical bills for my husband's car accident injuries, and they were a great team to help us through the process. Very patient with questions and deposition prep. Wise enough to change tactics when the insurance company continued to drag their feet on a settlement. Finally got us a great settlement and no out of pocket costs! I would recommend them to anyone that needs help with legal matters! Thanks guys!

Bill was recommended to me by another advanced asset protection attorney who works with Bill and spoke very highly of the asset protection plans Bill puts together for clients. That says something about a lawyer’s competency and personality when a competitor is willing to recommend him to help me. Sollertis and Bill Simon do a great job of organizing my complex real estate businesses, doing my due diligence work, and executing on the operational legal plan and the asset protection plan we put in place. The details do matter, and I don’t have to worry about any technical issues I have. I leave all of that up to Bill and the team of Sollertis attorneys. The hard part of asset protection isn’t coming up with the plan, it’s putting that plan in place and maintaining that plan to maintain protection. As my assets have shifted over the years and as laws change in different states, I still want to be fully protected. Sollertis sees asset protection as an ongoing dance, and I love that Bill and the team are there to help me. Bill’s approach to business, from how he communicates to how he makes himself available, to how he cared enough to get to know me on a personal level, is unlike any other attorney-client relationship I’ve had in the past. Sollertis is very systematic in implementing the business legal work and my personal asset protection plan. We work with a few attorneys on the Sollertis team to identify what needs to be fixed or improved, and I always know where we’re at with the work that’s being done. I really appreciate how they keep me in the status loop, and proactively stay on top of all the compliance work across my many different entities… and there are a lot of entities since me and my business partners are in real estate. On the team, Shawn has helped me manage plenty of items and is very responsive, and Kristi has been great to work with too, it feels like she’s part of my own financial management team. Many other law firms and attorneys I’ve used in the past were great at talking strategy and talking about the plan of action. Still, I have yet to work with any other firm besides Sollertis that was able to lawyer at such a high-level from strategy through implementation, while also being able to easily integrate their legal team with the different departments in my business, such as our internal accounting team, human resources, and internal legal team. Bill takes it one step further when a transaction I’m doing or move I’m looking to make calls for a new advisor or professional, Bill often has someone ready to be brought into the fold. This saves me time and money since I don’t need to find someone first, then vet them, then hope they do a good job. It’s really the best part of working with Sollertis because I get real-time advice that considers all my dozens of other moving parts and those implications. Bill has all the pieces needed to bring together a solid and complete asset protection plan, and handle my business legal needs, and my personal asset protection needs. With another attorney I might get a slice of specialized knowledge but Bill takes the comprehensive and collaborative team approach, and “quarterbacks” all my key players/people rather than me trying to piecemeal it all together and assemble it by myself. Bill helps me pull all the pieces together from legal and finance, to investments and tax strategies. I needed someone looking at all my businesses with a birds-eye perspective to make sure everything is working together. Bill Simon cares about me and my business as his personal friend, with the mind of an expert business, real estate, and asset protection lawyer. If you want to focus on your business and let someone else handle the legal, Sollertis is where you need to be.

The team of lawyers at Sollertis is top-notch. Not only the attorneys but the staff too. I first came to Sollertis when I was going through a difficult divorce, and it was apparent that I needed to put out some of the fires before I could begin working towards protecting my investments and other assets after the divorce. Once I started working with Sollertis and attorney Bill Simon, I established a level of trust early on with him and I’m loyal to our relationships because I have that trust. I started with one thing, and now Bill and his team handle nearly everything for me. Upon the recommendation of Bill Simon, I met with Kristi Wilson and she helped me make sense of all my different accounts and how money was flowing. Kristi helped me sort out and stay on top of all the financial complexities in my life as a business owner and surgeon. She’s saved me years of time and the heartache of cleaning it up myself, if I was even able to do it myself. Kristi has the heart of someone that treats me like family, even if she doesn’t agree with some of the financial decisions I’ve made in the past. It was refreshing to find Kristi because she keeps me aware of where we are, where we need to be, and how we will get there. It made a huge difference for me in terms of making progress on my financial commitments. My former CPA would do simple dollars in and dollars out, but they never did anything strategic to help me protect myself on the tax side. As a result, I paid more in taxes than I needed to for years just because I didn’t know any better. Bill and Kristi were able to help me find a new CPA and coordinate with my new CPA to be conscious of my tax bracket, and everyone Bill brings in is so intelligent in how they put things together. I’m busy with my medical practice, not with keeping my eye on the different ways to structure myself better. I want to leave that concern to my attorney and know it’s being considered with my CPA, and now I do just that without any worry. Sollertis has helped me set up and organize my business finances, my personal finances and figure out how to fund my retirement after a divorce. Today, everything moves together in concert. It lets me operate in the way I naturally do. I have Kristi on the bookkeeping side. I have Bill on the strategic legal and compliance side. And Sollertis has attorneys who can help me make changes in my business or with my investments, or when I moved states and they helped my CPA and I with that transition.

Bill Simon and the team at Sollertis have helped me with personal asset protection and estate planning for me and other members of my family. I have also worked with Bill to set up living trusts, negotiate business deals and contracts for my construction company, and to take care of some personal legal issues. Bill Simon has a way of putting my mind at ease and relaxing my nerves. I find I can trust his expertise and his demeanor has a way of relaxing my anxiety. He shares the next 3, 5, or 10 steps that will happen, and I don’t ever feel like I’m in the dark … I love that. I’m a construction company owner, and I made a choice to hire one law firm to handle all of my legal needs: personal and business. So now, I have one team that handles everything, and all my big picture plans work together. I’ll share one of the more recent situations that Bill Simon helped me navigate. When the pandemic started, I had several projects in progress that were stuck in plan check with the city. With their offices being closed, it caused all kinds of delays. I was losing money left and right, it was a mess. As that all dragged out, it cost me a flipping fortune! When one of my construction projects goes south, and the other side is coming after me for Millions, I’m glad I had previously hired Sollertis to do my asset protection. Bill helped me maneuver myself in a way that ensured all my stuff was safe. I’ve used other attorneys in the past, and it was a nightmare. Bill gives me the personal attention that I need, and I appreciate an attorney who cares about my business and keeps on top of things. Bill handles a lot of work himself which I like, and he will call or email me when he has questions. And I like that he reaches out instead of me having to contact him. I refer people to Bill all the time. When I’m calling for expert advice, I expect to get expert advice, and I do. That’s why I choose Sollertis. D O'Neill

As a business owner, I knew that legal issues and precautions are part of running my business. After growing a few large businesses and acquiring real estate holdings over the past 30+ years, I learned more about how vulnerable I really was to any customer or creditor that wanted to come after me personally. When I needed an attorney for estate planning, I quickly realized that what I actually needed was an asset protection attorney. It was quickly apparent to me that having one entity, some business insurance, and a family trust was not going to cut it should I find myself in hot water sometime in the future. I found Bill Simon and Sollertis when I started to ask around for referrals, and Bill’s name came up many times. He had me consider how I can protect my assets and vulnerability and showed me where I am exposed to personal liability from my businesses. When I was looking for an attorney, I DID NOT want to have different attorneys working on different things for me personally and for my business. I wanted it all streamlined and straightforward. With Sollertis, I get multiple attorneys working together for a common cause… to protect me. I wanted everything to be coordinated under one firm, and that’s exactly what I get with Sollertis. It’s refreshing to find a law firm that “gets it” and can handle all of my legal needs and explain the jargon in terms that makes sense. I also get along great with Bill. His worldviews, lifestyle, and personality align with mine, so I feel like he puts things together the same way I would. He really has a finger on the pulse even with my businesses across industries, which makes me feel like I don’t have to. I’ve already referred my kids to Sollertis for wills and trusts and a handful of my personal friends and colleagues for asset protection. We are all at risk and have liability. Why not actively protect yourself? If anyone is considering hiring an attorney for their business, do yourself a favor and at least have a conversation with Bill.

Best attorney I have ever worked with. Tony worked with my medical providers to make my situation as simple as possible for me. During an accident, the last thing you want is the hassle of dealing with medical expenses and insurance adjusters calling you everyday. Top notch customer service! Highly recommended!!

Highly recommend! Martha was very informative and a pleasure to deal with

She is a great lawyer and she knows her stuff about the SSI I will say once again she is a great lawyer