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24 Nov, 2023 by Doug
No details provided. Hard to respond to this one anonymous review in 45 years of successful practice as hospital and personal injury attorney.
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14 Oct, 2014 by Anonymous
Douglas Fladseth is very untrustworthy. Doug ignores his fiduciary duty to his clients whom place their utmost trust and confidence in him to manage their legal actions. He intentionally damaged my case by not following court rules, such as providing sealed records to the court.
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23 Nov, 2022 by Brian
Well, Don ripped my company off for work we did on his office network. He has avoided payment 4 times that he told me to stop by and pick up a check..His secretary says no check, and Don is not in the office....But his car is right outside...Hmmmm The guy has been suspended from the bar for ripping of senior citizens..
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25 Jan, 2012 by Magnity interactive / wildoutwest
Top talent. Highly intelligent and the sort of person who gets the job done. You wouldn't think you'd have to say this about a lawyer - but there are a lot of slouches that are going through the motions for the fees.
Don is a trial lawyer of the highest caliber - he will fight to win, and bring his exceptional talents to the table on your behalf rather than simply roll over and settle for half as many seem to. I beleive he will work on contingency for the right cases.
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15 Jun, 2011 by Curtis
Michelle Zyromski is an admirable litigator. During her representation in a civil matter she was thorough complete and professional. As managing partner of Zyromski Konicek they truly represented my interests. There is nothing not to like about a firm which cares about its community and its clients 110%.
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28 Apr, 2011 by Anonymous
Michelle does not seem know a lot of things an attorney should know...she did look things up quite often, but unfortunately as a client, I was billed for all of this. She also bills 240/hr. even when it is an administrative task.
She also runs most things by her husband/partner. They don't seem to think alike, and the client is billed for their discussions.
Another issue with Michelle is that she is extremely ill which takes time away from the office and the pace she is able to work is very slow. I do feel bad for her, but I also can't afford to pay for this. I want an attorney who is in top form mentally and physically. She wins financially, but the client does not. However, she will insist that she is fine. She is not fine.
And she is not very assertive in the court room, while the oppositions attorney can be very assertive, she is not. She made comments quite often that she did not want to upset the judge.
Bottom line is that she will win financially no matter how well or poorly she represents her client, it's the client who suffers.
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11 Nov, 2022 by Anonymous
Ms. Lewers is an excellent attorney. She did a great job representing us in a wrongful eviction lawsuit.
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04 Aug, 2022 by Anonymous
Was promised the world when I engaged with attorney Lewers. Opposing council should have been on the defense and instead they were on the offense because she was late in responding to everything. She was nice but there are a lot of better attorneys out there.
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02 Jan, 2021 by Jennifer m.
You will be lucky if you can get her to answer the phone or return an email. She waits until the last minute to respond to pressing inquiries from the other side, and then puts together a hap-hazard response, not fully understanding what is going on. Make sure to ask her to respond to things in a timely manner, or put it in your contract that her pay should be docked if she doesn't.
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06 Oct, 2021 by Jenney vasquez
If I could give 0 stars I would. Corrupt and unprofessional. She does not deserve her title one bit.
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17 Sep, 2021 by Adriana romeo
13 Aug, 2021 by Itstiffgirl
How can I give 0 stars . ?!!!Horrible women .
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27 Dec, 2020 by William
You want to take extreme caution if you're assigned Daniel Chester (aka Daniel Keith Chester) as a Child Custody Recommending Counselor through the Sonoma County (California) Family Court. This man is very dangerous to families. He has no background in psychology and yet he issues assessments of parents for purposes of judges determining their child custody worthiness using a variety of Clinical Psychology determinants. He will attempt to get you to sign papers that will give him unlimited access to third parties (like, for example, therapists) and will ultimately determine that you need a psychological evaluation while steering you to two specific psychologists to execute the evaluations. This is an open kickback. In 2015 through the present (it's currently 2021), more than 135 parents have confirmed that he has applied his armchair psychological assessments and has pointed parents to these two therapists with each case. This man should not be trusted. He has a battery of complaints against him including a portfolio of complaints currently before the CA State Bar. Do yourself a favor: DO NOT ALLOW DANIEL CHESTER TO EVALUATE YOUR SUITABILITY FOR PARENTING YOUR CHILD. You have the right to request alternative evaluators. There are currently three to choose from. You also have the right to not attend a pre-hearing meeting with Family Court Services. THIS IS YOUR RIGHT. EXERCISE IT. This man is a train wreck.
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24 Nov, 2012 by Anonymous
My research and interviews with Family Law attorneys and Family Law facilitators here in Sonoma County indicate Mr. Dan Chester is associated with creating the "Court-Involved Therapist Referral List (CIT)" deemed to constitute a lack of the required judicial neutrality of the Court by his immediate supervisor. One of the service providers on the CIT list is a three-time convicted felon legally defined as morally depraved who makes his living testifying on behalf of murderers and child molesters. It is my understanding that Dan Chester was making direct referrals to this individual before the State of California came in and told the County Superior Court's Family Court Services to stop making direct referrals. Now this CIT list is sponsored by the Sonoma County Bar Association's Family Law Steering Committee.
In my case, Dan Chester recommended to the court that my ex wife and I continue seeing service providers on this CIT list "for the duration and frequency determined by the counselors," - an open checkbook!! Forewarned is fore-armed, this individual is in a position to financially burden you until your child turns eighteen. Of fundamental importance to his impropriety in my case, he fails to cite the specific reasoning for his recommendations, in direct violation of the Elkins Family Law Task Force recommendations.
Dan Chester told me "you are going to be sorely disappointed if you think you are ever going to get 50/50 custody," without providing reasoning for his threat. BTW, I have achieved 50/50 custody, you can too. My recommendation is that you ask for a different child custody recommending counselor, in order to avoid Dan Chester's well-established history of collaboration with a convicted felon and his willingness to recommend to the court that you open your checkbook forever to therapists with whom he has prior dealings. In my opinion, Dan Chester is more interested in financially benefiting service providers on the CIT list rather than seeking the best interest of children.
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03 Nov, 2018 by Sylvia laura
I hired Brian A. Noble back into 2015, I did not know he wasn’t a man of his word. After he took on my case I thought I was in good hands. I come to find out he was lying to me constantly. He told me he was going to take the plaintiffs deposition but never did nor did he do any kind of discovery.
I had my evidence which I shared with him and access to all my files. In which I found out later he never reviewed. He filed my lawsuit 18 days late the statue limitations on a Oral Verbal Agreement is two years. Dropped my case less than five months before my trial. Brian said, he was getting a divorce and that his wife hired the same law firm of the plaintiff I was suing. Said it would be a conflict of interest, I found out he was never getting a divorce another lie. I couldn’t hire another attorneys because no deposition nor discovery was taken and because he filed my lawsuit late, this is what each attorneys conveyed to me when I tried to hire them. I had no choice but to represent myself in court on July 10, 2018 and lost my case. I lost a $2 million case.
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09 Aug, 2015 by Dr. j
I hired Brian Noble because I needed to transfer my business from a sole proprietorship to an S-corp. He assured me this was a simple process and he would handle all the paperwork so everything would go smoothly. He also required $800 up front for his service. It’s almost a year later and to date he has presented me with nothing but a boilerplate CD which was only partially complete and those parts contained errors. He failed to follow up on getting the State and Federal paperwork in a timely fashion which looks like it is going to cost me around $5,000 in additional taxes, misinformed me re tax requirements and deadlines, charged me for sending in paperwork that he admitted he forgot to send, and when I asked him what he was planning to do to follow up on getting the paperwork he told me that he was busy with more important cases and quote “You have to understand, in my practice you are not exactly the squeaky wheel.”
I have no problem with a lawyer being too busy to help me, but I have a BIG problem with him taking my money and then doing nothing for it. Since I had to pay my two bookkeepers to do the work he was paid to do as well as paying thousands in unnecessary taxes, I think he should give me my $800 back.
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17 Mar, 2022 by Eric pressley
Nan johnson is no good for me ive called about 150 times over the corse of 4 months affter my court she was suppose to be helping my see my daughter but she has not answered my calls not one of them shes suppose to be helping me get my daughter back and she has done nothing for my i dont no if its becouse im black i just dont know im eric pressley erica browns father my number is 6282406728 and she still has not answered any of my calls she has not helpted me not one bit i had inadicet counsle and i need a Lowyer that will help me get my daughter back shes doing the same thing that another county dd to me they looked over me ive not had a chance to be a father to my 2 year old and its killing me i cant even think straight i want to get my daughjter back i need help
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11 Mar, 2022 by Eric
Nan Johnson is no good she is the reason why I don't have custody of my 2year old daughter ive called her phone for over 4 months leaving message after message pleading with her to help me and yet still no answer she have lied to me and on me my name is Eric pressley I'm Erica browns father it's been over 4 months no contact she is supposed to get my visit going with my daughter I have not seen her since she was 4 months old she still has not helped me or even tried to me she have been dodging my phone call she is no good to me and know one else how can she not return my call knowing that im trying to get my daughter back its not right she needs to get her job took for male practice.she have not represented me in no way
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30 May, 2024 by Anonymous
Worst ever. Her pernicious effect about thinking she can tell everybody has live lives when it’s not her business is disgusting and if she doesn’t like your lifestyle well hopefully you have enough moxie to put up a fight.
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25 Feb, 2022 by Anonymous
I asked the help of this Attorney and he rejected my case because I am not from the U.S. Totally unprofessional ethic by this guy who thinks he is an Attorney. No he is not. Less than zero attitude. He made his opinion and sorry I have to grade his awful professionalism.
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31 May, 2022 by Foundation 707
Not an aggressive attorney and hung me out to dry twice.
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