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22 Feb, 2017 by Mary
High-profile, time-dictated estate matter in Santa Barbara, involving apartment buildings that my family is very shortly to have dumped in our laps. I was notified through the trust that we had THREE WEEKS to prepare ourselves to take on the ownership, management, insurance, and a $200,000 liability on top from deposits that one Lola Zinke(look it up) ABSCONDED WITH. He assured me that he could handle it, had "many, many" connections in CA & his father practiced out there for 40 years. Good for his daddy. I hope he had more integrity. We are under a timeline and he made promises that he didn't keep, made me wait more than a week to "research it," and after he wasted my (and my family's) valuable time, severed communications, leaving us in a WORSE POSITION than before I conferred with him. As far as his degree in "Theology," although he may have read the books, he has zero integrity as far as I'm concerned, and uses it to mislead people like me. Don't let him waste YOUR time if you have BUSINESS to accomplish. He CAN'T handle it. Then he won't TELL YOU that he can't.
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21 Apr, 2019 by Anonymous
This attorney, if you call him that, contacted me through next door app and took me on as a client for a whopping 750 charge for one court appearance he was late to and stuttering and acting like he never been to trail, only to settle out of court and not get me the results we agreed upon. He is a waste of time and money and for what he did he should charge the standard fee of 200. I recommend he retires. He was not helpful at all. Talks a lot but doesnt back it up at court. He even forgot to make a contract out.
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21 Dec, 2023 by Anonymous
First court date prepared me to not answer more than asked. Never happened! Also told was going to ask for a mutual epo. she offered judge a 60 day epo when I asked about mutual was told that unheard of. Never was called to testify. Mislead had to ask multiple times for paperwork. She set up times to meet. Three to be exact never to show. Finally 9 months later was told she would send me the decree. Never sent it until 56 minutes before appearing in front of judge. She rushed or tried to rush me to sign it. When asking questions I was told I’m bizzar. Was told if i didn’t sign she was quitting. I still have no idea where I stand. Definitely a very odd/ bizarre situation I’ve ever been a part of. I would bet money she was paid off if not then she just is a lousy representative!
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12 Sep, 2022 by Anonymous
Had a very bad experience with this lawyer. He took my money and didn’t do anything and I mean he literally didn’t do anything. He only made one court appearance and after that he wouldn’t even show up. A lot of times I had to remind him what my case was even about smh. Just a horrible experience that resulted in me loosing of course.
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07 May, 2024 by Anonymous
He is extremely slow mentally, and physically. He try to talk me in taking a plea deal that my new attorney got dismissed.
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28 Feb, 2018 by Anonymous
So it goes like this.
Marijuana possession case. Mark speaks to me like I'm a child. Sets up a court date. The court "loses" my documents. I showed up to 5 separate appearances at which I was simply rescheduled. 4 of which nether he nor his representation appeared at all. Yes I was left alone! 3 times! In court! Then, turns out he literally couldn't do anything about my case anyway and neither could his paralegals, whom by the way didn't even know my name! Ridiculous. If you want to waste your money, how these people. "An attorney you can count on" to sit at home and do nothing while you have to represent yourself. I found out that he evidently is a truck driver now because he's a terrible lawyer. Go figure.
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07 Jun, 2019 by Justice not served.
After being hired the attorney never contacted me again. No phone calls No return call nothing. 3 months later I was in Jail for 3 months. Eight court appearances later he showed up. Acted like he was there to help every one but me. After release I asked him to withdrawal of my guilty plea. He refused
Consulted multiple other Attorney's and was told he was my attorney and he must withdraw my guilty plea if that is what I wanted. Again I asked. His friends and other clients profited from me the most.
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21 Jan, 2023 by Anonymous
Lorenzo Banks inability or unwillingness to communicate in a time sensitive situation has prevented me from seeing or spending time with my children this weekend after traveling over a thousand miles.
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04 Dec, 2023 by Desiree
MISLEADING, MISREPRESENTATION, CALL AVOIDANCE
GWC has gotten away with thousands upon thousands of dollars mishandling our cases! Kenny Goza misled and misrepresented us (my husband and I) for two years, and now is avoiding our calls, and emails. What a terrible mistake it was trusting GWC Lawyers with our cases. I regret hiring him so, so much…
At the very start of our cases, he gave us a list of things to be completed and guaranteed that as long as said list was all done neither one of us would see the inside of a jail cell (his words). So, we hired him. We completed every little thing he said was required, and still my husband got put behind bars. They gave my husband, a disabled veteran with spinal injuries who treats his pain with cannabis, 5 years to serve for cultivating cannabis. We had too many plants growing at a time and Kenny didn’t even bring up having the plants for THC. Most of them were only clones and didn’t even produce THC at that stage.
Mr. Goza did not fight for us one bit. He didn’t even attempt to plea down our charges. We did everything he advised us to do that he claimed would help our case (which incurred fees not included in his nearly $20,000 fee). We thought we were in good hands, and boy, were we so wrong.
On several occasions he called us by the wrong names. Two years of going to court with this guy and he never even bothered getting our names right. One time he sent me home from court with someone else's sensitive court documents (which I returned). I didn’t even realize they weren’t mine until I got home. He's disorganized; and you can tell by how he holds himself in court that he's very lazy. He always rushed through our questions before court and showed up with only 5 minutes to spare before court began. He was almost 2 hours late for one of our hearings and had no one contact us to let us know he’d be running late.
We never missed a payment, and our cases were paid in full long before they were finished. He made sure to mention that he needed payment (not exaggerating) before every single court hearing until it was paid off. He asked for half up front and said the other half could be paid in installments. Every one of our court dates he claimed that the minimum payment wouldn’t do and that we’d have to figure out how to get larger payments to him, which we did.
Kenny Goza claimed he wasn’t aware of the evidence that would be presented at my husband’s sentencing hearing. Evidence that swayed the judge’s decision against him in the end. Evidence that we, given an inkling of an opportunity to submit the document, could have proved was from a legitimate source. A simple bank statement showing a one-time deposit of inheritance money my husband’s recently deceased grandmother had left him. The judge said it had to have been drug money.
After the judge had sentenced my husband, I was beside myself in tears. Kenny Goza said to call him if I had any more questions. Kenny wasn’t even able to get his sentencing paperwork either. Well, I had some follow-up questions for Mr. Goza but now he's AVOIDING MY CALLS!! Several times I have called his office and left messages with his secretary. She always takes my name and number, and says he’ll get back to me just as soon as he’s able. I’ve tried to call outside of court hours, and outside of lunch break times. I’ve tried emailing him, but still nothing. I’ve not received a single return communication from him since that day.
Kenny Goza had no problem taking/returning our calls when we were still paying on what we owed for his crappy services!!
What a heartless, slimy dog this guy is! I don't know how he sleeps at night after what he's done to our family! I wish negative stars were a thing. Don’t waste your time or money trusting these scoundrels.
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01 May, 2014 by Anonymous
This is the third time I have used this lawyer. She did great on my divorce, but when it comes to child support or child custody it literally took her 10 years for one of my cases because she forgot to file some paperwork and its going on almost 2 years for a modified custody agreement. She tells you one thing, but never follows through even though you have already paid her for her services.
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08 Dec, 2023 by Anonymous
Most unprofessional lawyer, that I ever used it took him almost 2 weeks to contact the other Party. He was hired for 28 days. He had 20 days to reply to the paternity action and he did not. He spoke to me rudely and there’s so much more I have texted everything to prove this would not suggest this lawyer to anyone.
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03 Dec, 2023 by Christina
He signed the unilateral, Unfair agreement decree written by opposite Counsels after I fired him, a Lawyer Outside of legal authority and with the explicit opposition of the client and outside of his client's interests. Also, he hid the fraudulent documents of my ex-husband regards Alimony. As a result, he proved me $800,000,00, after a while convinced me to settle with 300,000,00, and finally signed that agreed decree; I received zero dollars, and my ex picked up my car in front of my door, and he like a spoiled child didn’t answer my contact and now I went to appeal court to follow my case and fix his messy.
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15 May, 2018 by Kila
I hired Mr. Tate for a drug case in Canadian County, OK. At first Mr. Tate seemed eager to work my case. Then it became harder and harder to get a hold of Mr. Tate, one time only a couple of days before court putting me in an uneasy state since I had no clue of what was happening. He even joked when I finally got him on the phone about not being able to reach him....not funny. Once the discovery finally came back, and there was "no video" and Mr. Tate seemed content with that, and I saw a change in how he was handling my case. I was just a file on his desk he was trying to hurry into conclusion. That is not how I expected my case handled for the amount he charged me. Sorry if my freedom is more important to me than a first bad plea deal offered. I expected more caring from my attorney at that price, guess I excepted too much! Could have got the same deal from a public defender.
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14 Sep, 2023 by Anonymous
Jennifer Irish is biased and horrible with communication but she is really good a billing you. She will bill, bill, bill and then quit on you! Do not contact this unprofessional woman!
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25 Sep, 2018 by None
If you need an attorney for custody do NOT get this guy. Have had supervised visitation for absolutely no reason. It’s been going on for almost 2yrs and the person who does the supervised visitation said numerous times there isn’t a need for it. Turns out Guy could have filed a motion to suspend them. Or I don’t know also showing up to several court dates he missed
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11 Feb, 2015 by Melissa
This review is in English and Spanish. Esta revision tambien es encuentra en espanol
When I started doing research online on becoming a citizen I realized I was not going to be capable of filling out USCIS forms so I decided to hire a professional. Mr. Sobel was the only attorney that was able to see us on a sunday as my husband works during the week.
After the consultation Mr. Sobel left us with the impression that he was a professional that would take pride of his work. He also shared that he had worked for Pipeliners Local Union 798 just like my husband. After writing a check for $1,500 I gave him all the necessary documents that had all my information and my name. After two months of the consultation I realized I had made the worst mistake by hiring and paying Mr. Sobel for his services and that his firm does not take pride of their work.
I ran into three problems with Mr. Sobel
1. Mr. Sobel mistyped my address. His typo caused for me not to received very important documents/notices from USCIS from June 29 to November 24, 2014. To top the typo Ms. Coulter tried to cover up the fact that they had mistyped my address by lying to me.
2. Mr. Sobel received a RFE from USCIS, I did not since USCIS had my neighbors address on my file, and wanted me to pay $750 for a response that was very simple to do and that was out of my budget. After two typos I decided not to allow Mr. Sobel do the response and informed his firm that I was going to do my own response. After I had informed firm, Mr. Sobel withdrew from representing me. If you hire him and something comes up for your case he will expect you to pay or lose his representation.
3. THE WORST ONE
Mr. Sobel mistyped my last name on I-765. I had reviewed my packet with Ms. Coulter and we both did not catch any errors as she flipped the pages of the packet. I asked for a copy of my packet but was rejected and Ms.Coulter assured me I would get a copy. 24 days later I received a copy on my email and I noticed the error. I contacted Ms. Coulter and brought the typo to their attention and asked if the typo would hurt my petition in any way. She responded with no. I received my EAD card with a wrong last name, the name that Mr. Sobel printed on the I-765 application and the only way to fix his typographical error is to resubmit the application with the fee ($465). When I asked Mr. Sobel for a refund of the fee, since I have to fix his error and redo his job, he claimed that it is not his duty to fix it since he no longer represents me and that it was my fault. His front desk employee, Ms. Irene, shared on January 2015 that she usually reviews packets before they are sent off to USCIS, but that she did not reviewed mine. Yet my signed packet sat in his firm for 24 days. So far Mr. Sobel has not done a single thing to fix his typographical error.
Ms. Coulter had told me that the typo was not going to affect my petition yet I can not get a social security number, a job, a drivers license, or even start looking for scholarships.
Mr. Sobel gained $1,000 and I have to redo his job and his SOLUTION TO THE TYPO WAS TO RECOMMEND ME TO GO AHEAD AND GET A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER WITH A WRONG LAST NAME. I did not since that is very illegal. I will be making a complain to the Bar Association.
Please DO NOT trust this attorney with your hard earned money.
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25 Jun, 2021 by Anonymous
Malpractice 101!! Careless!! He won’t respond to motions and will not fight for you. He will let everything slide by no matter how much information you give him to respond too. He lacks integrity. He puts his clients in much worse condition than where he found them. He’s the reason malpractice insurance should be required by ALL lawyers.
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16 Jun, 2011 by Anonymous
Absolutely would not recommend this attorney. Less than impressive results.
Simply felt that he behaved in an adversarial manner during my divorce proceedings, made multiple derogatory and chauvinistic comments towards me and derided me in taking whatever the other attorney had offered. He already had his $6,000 pre-payment and I had little choice in attorneys in town, otherwise I would have fired him.
I absolutely believe that he had me settle for below what I may have been able been awarded otherwise (including simply representing myself pro se).
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31 Oct, 2019 by Anonymous
Signed a contract with this Attorney after being illegally fired for getting injured at work. Christina Cupp had my file for over 10 months & never Filed my case with the Court. She told my family & I on a phone call ,she may have a conflict of interest representing me. She informed us she was doing work for one of the 3rd party administrators of my WC claim.
When the final deadline approached for filing & CC had not filed yet; I questioned if the delay was due to the conflict of interest.
Instead of just being honest & clarifying her representation of my claim, she got very angry at my questioning her & fired me as a client.
Because of her delay in filing we were not able to retain a replacement Attorney in time to file my case & sue for wrongful discharge. The out of state company that broke a Oklahoma Labor Law for firing me while still under a Doctor’s care, basically got away with it because of this Attorney’s lack of ability to be honest & forthcoming. To make things worse she set up a scenario to make it seem it was my fault because I questioned her reason for not filing my case with the Court.
There are many honest well intentioned Attorney’s in Oklahoma, but avoid hiring this one.
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20 Jan, 2021 by Steve
He is a horrible attorney!!! Do not let him anywhere near your case. He is a biased, incompetent moron!
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13 Apr, 2019 by Milton
This guy charge us $5000 to update our estate. He was bias in every way toward me. I let him know when we were on a conference call. The price was ridiculous. I wouldn't recommend him to anyone ever.
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24 Jul, 2013 by Anonymous
Very unprofessional lawyer. Still waiting on 5 unreturned phone calls & 2 unreturned emails. This was nearly a month ago. Definitely can't recommend Brad to anyone out there.
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11 Jan, 2024 by Travis collatz
They should be Federally prosecuted for the levels of extortion they rise to. If you ever have ever unfortunate fate of dealing with these people be sure to know the law because they think they are above the law. Due process is for a reason. I miss America
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01 Nov, 2021 by Sam smith
Oklahoma law purports to build upon federal Constitutional protections by providing that courts should make an ability to pay determination when fines, fees, and costs are initially assessed. Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Rule 8.1 (“Rule 8.1”) expressly requires that: “When the Judgment and Sentence of a court, either in whole or in part, imposes a fine and/or costs upon a defendant, a judicial hearing shall be conducted and judicial determination made as to the defendant’s ability to immediately satisfy the fine and costs.” Additionally, Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals Rule 8.5 (“Rule 8.5”) provides that “[i]n the event the defendant, because of physical disability or poverty, is unable to pay fine and/or costs either immediately or in installment payments, he/she must be relieved of the fine and/or costs[.]”...
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01 Nov, 2021 by Ahhh right now
A bunch of scandalous crooks, is amazing what passing for justice out in the panhandle
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06 Feb, 2024 by Joshua landers
If you want someone to sue and garnish wages of people in an hoa, this is your people. Representation of the biggest scam since y2k is all they do.
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06 Feb, 2024 by Joshua landers
If you want someone to sue and garnish wages of people in an hoa, this is your people. Representation of the biggest scam since y2k is all they do.
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27 Apr, 2017 by Old greg
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02 Oct, 2024 by Kristi
BEWARE ALL! - Jonathan M. Pitcher, is NOT a licensed attorney in the State of Oklahoma. A quick call to the Oklahoma Bar Association confirmed this and they have been notified of his claims in this, and other advertisements, to be an active, licensed attorney in Oklahoma. He was formerly an attorney in Texas, License #24046637. According to the State Bar of Texas his license was suspended for "disciplinary sanctions" and "default in payment of Occupation Tax." (See page 327 of State of Texas Bar "List of Licensed Texas Attorneys NOT Eligible to Practice Law in Texas.") In the State of Oklahoma it is against the law to impersonate a public official - like an attorney; to give legal advise if you are not a licensed attorney, and Mr. Pitcher is in violation of both these laws and has been reported to Ok. Bar Association and Vicki Behenna's office as District Attorney for Oklahoma County. If you have had Two Doors Realty refuse to return your deposit, or act in manner outside the realm of laws governing Landlords & Tenants (O.S. Title 41) contact a reputable, licensed attorney and discuss your situation. This man, Jonathan M. Pitcher is a fraud, who has set his company up to scam even the best of tenants and property owners out of every penny he can.
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30 Jun, 2022 by Katie bergner
Very rude and short
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24 Jul, 2020 by Avv asquex
One of the most expensive places to call for help. Outrageously over priced in my opinion, not even close to being affordable, lol. This guy is in it for the $, not to help people
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