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23 Dec, 2010 by Yvette
James Wells is possibly one of the greatest Legal minds in the Ca area. My Family and I have had the pleasure of working with J.D. for more than 20 years and he has never failed us. The Oliver & Grey families are greatly pleased to have such honest representation during a time when many attorneys fail to meet the needs of there clients.
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09 Jun, 2010 by Mark
Mr. Wells was very helpful and generous with his advice. One quick consultation with him answered my questions and sent me in the right direction. I'm impressed with his expertise and friendly communication style. I'll be very happy to work with him in the future.
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19 Apr, 2013 by Sherri
I feel confident in working with Michael Harvey with his high ethical standard and professional knowledge in legal field. Michael is the one you can trust to fight hard for you and to give you good legal advice. That is my experience with Michael.
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06 Jan, 2022 by David
As it became clear that we could no longer avoid the need to address our family trust a good friend recommended attorney Lee Ann Shenkman in Soquel after she had solved some challenging problems for her family. The need to engage an attorney has never been something I would look forward to, however we were pleased to find that working Lee Ann felt more like we had a personal counselor who cared about us and our children’s future.
We live 120 miles away, so all of our communications were by phone and email, and it turned out to be very convenient and efficient. We had a very complicated situation as older parents with a grown daughter and a teen adopted daughter both with special needs. Lee Ann provided us with the names of some trusted professionals who could act as the trustee of a special needs trust if we were deceased or incapacitated and we found it easy to make a selection.
The word “trust” appears again and again throughout this experience but that’s the thing, we felt that we could “trust” Lee Ann’s advice and counsel. She sought to thoroughly ensure that our daughters financial future would be secure. We cannot imagine that another attorney could do a better job and be more caring partner in dealing with this important issue.
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02 Jul, 2018 by Bruce
Ben has been our corporate and personal attorney for over 30 years. He has advised on many real estate legal, acquisition and divestment scenarios as well as designing personal trusts for estate planning. I have found him to be quite knowledgeable in most questions I have thrown his way and willing to admit when his expertise didn't cover a topic. In those rare cases he either was able to research the answer or refer to his network for the answers we needed.
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31 Dec, 2020 by Jacqueline trudeau
We had a property issue and used the Sapia law firm. It was my first experience with a lawyer and I was so grateful we found her. She is very thorough, hard working, and very ethical. She will fight hard for her clients, and she also knows how to work well with a mediator. She is well connected in the area, and if there's an area of law that her firm does not manage, she is able to provide contacts to assist. If I need assistance in the future, I would not hesitate to use her services again. I found that she goes above and beyond regularly in her work.
Adding to this, I've recently had an interaction with another lawyer for an out of state issue. The whole time, I just keep thinking how above and beyond Dinah Sapia is as a professional and person. If we need a lawyer here again, there is no doubt, I will be using her company!
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23 Sep, 2018 by Kris
Deborah has created, revised, updated, advised and supported me through a rather complicated, many times sad situation.
Her advice and referrals to other specialized attorneys has been spot on.
For one of the most important documents you will ever create, you need a specialist in the field, Deborah is that.
I have and will continue to highly recommend her to others.
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26 Jan, 2011 by Anonymous
Deborah has advised me on myTrust over a period of 17 years when I've had to update it a few times to take into consideration impact of changes in relationship status, etc. She's everything the other reviewers say. Generous, low-key but very knowledgeable. She refers cases where you need "the aggressive type" lawyer to a colleague!
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08 Oct, 2009 by Jack
She advised me on how to deal with my son's special needs trust. She was very helpful. Evertything she told me wsa right on. I am doing a good job as trustee thanks to her.
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06 Nov, 2020 by Anonymous
I would not recommend him. He uses poor language and curses when “trying” to convey his point of view. He is self involved and immoral.
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09 Oct, 2015 by Ursula
Jesse Turner was an excellent attorney that I would definitely recommend! He is very knowledgeable, hard working, helpful and honest. Jesse did a excellent job representing me and I felt secure and taken care of. He really went to bat for me in court.
If you want a knowledgeable, honest, hard working attorney, then Jesse Turner is definitely the one for you.
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06 Oct, 2015 by David
I hired attorney Turner on a civil litigation matter. I needed defense. Jesse was well spoken and aggressive in court, and the judge listened to him with respect. We won, and the other side's case against me was thrown out.
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02 Apr, 2024 by Soquel girl
No call back, unable to reach the office
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03 Nov, 2023 by James eick
Lorie did our original trust in 2003 and we just did a major revision. She is very personable, professional, thorough and reasonable. We would recommend her to anyone.
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27 Apr, 2021 by Leslie french-baxter
26 Mar, 2018 by Alejandra
I had the good luck to hire Jeremy Conrad thanks to my cousin who recomended him .
My experience was very positive on top of succeeded with my immigration case that took a considerable time I felt confident because I was aware of his knowledge in immigration laws and procidures by the way he conducted himself very professional and
Respectful when I got ansious and worried : Yes I recommend him
100%
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04 May, 2013 by Dwayne
I hired jeremy conrad in june of 2008 for my immigration case . I was currently in removal proceeding form the united state of america back to my home country of birth . I was very stress and didn't know what to do . I was in custody of home land security trying to see if there was a posibility of that i might be free again , jermy started working on my case and making all the necessay filing that he needed to do to get me out of detention . I ran out of money and couldn't pay him anymore to come to court for me . Jermy believe in me and my case and decided that he wasn't going to stop fighing for me . I spend 8 months of my life lock way from my family didn't know what's going to happen to me but got send this attorney in my way to solve my situation even with 0.00 in my pocket with no one on the out side to help me .
Today i am self employed and currently a Permanent resident of the United state of American and i am really proud to say that jermy conrad is a really good man and attorney who look out for the best interest of his clients and will go the extra mile to save you in any way i can .
I will recomend him to any family or na individual that has any immigration situation going on in their life and need and experience attorney .
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12 Nov, 2011 by Paola
I hired Jeremy Conrad for a green card case. I called his office for 2 months to get an update and he never returns calls. I finally went to his office to find out what was going on and found out he left the state, and handed my case to another lawyer who doesn't know what he is doing. He never notified me he was leaving. Very unprofessional.
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09 Aug, 2012 by Anonymous
He has been my attorney for over 15 years in real property, family and personal injury law. He tells it like it is and does not spent "hours" running up my bill. While it may take him a few days to get back to me it is always worth the wait.
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20 Jul, 2012 by Anonymous
We could not rely on him to do proper paperwork , return calls, be there at crucial times. He was MIA most of the time. He failed to keep us informed and was little to no help to us. I plan on filing with the Bar Association.
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15 Dec, 2022 by David
This is worst attorney in California. I fired this fraud immediately after I found out he has been disciplined by State Bar; which he tried to hide, he defrauded clients for thousands, did not provide contracted services yet still practices because he claims has done these frauds since he is mentally disabled.
See the case for yourself, case SBC-20-O-30770 at https://www.statebarcourt.ca.gov/
Do yourself a favor and stay away.
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03 Sep, 2021 by P.
Initially i think that he would he good choice to help me. But as other reviewer mentioned, he talks good game but that is aboiyt it. He enticed me with promises, but then few weeks later started to change them. It got to the point that i was afraid to go to his office alone without friend, it felt as if he was flirting with me yet he kept increasing the amount i had to leave on retainer. Final straw was when this creepy old men invited me on fun business trip and said i could refill retainer by helping him on that trip.
I felt dirty just hearing that, he took advantage of me and i switched now to Jennifer Greene who is professional unlike this sleaze bag and much cheaper rate.I wish I had recorder him because he denies everything when my friend confront him later.
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05 Aug, 2021 by Ralph
Martin did a very good job representing me through my divorce. We had to communicate by telephone , email , text , etc.. due to Covid and although the courts were not open and many delays by the court system we were able to complete the divorce. He was very helpful and kept all our appointments right on time. I am very happy with the outcome of the divorce settlement. I will recommend Martin to anyone that needs representation of whatever services he covers. Thank you again Martin.
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