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26 Sep, 2024 by Dan
If I could give negative stars of Bruce A. Mandel, I would!
Issues include:
- A crucial missed deadline, even though I supplied all necessary information 2 full days in advance.
- 2 more almost-missed deadlines. My counsel literally asked me to sign documents at 11pm twice, with midnight deadlines, even though I had supplied all requested information far in advance.
- Several unanswered emails, miscommunication and lack of communication for months.
- Bad advice from Bruce that almost cost me 50/50 custody of my son.
- Bruce was absent during the only scheduled court hearing we had, and it was not caused by an emergency, he simply booked 2 cases at the same time on the same date, even though he told me his calendar was clear on my scheduled court date.
- Extremely low quality work product in general, largely due to the constant last-second scrambling.
- Complete failure to follow-through on the things we discussed, and he even failed to execute a 50/50 Custody Order for more than 4 months after a judge ordered him to write up that order, and I reminded him multiple times!
- A massive misunderstanding regarding a 3rd court continuance, even though I emailed Bruce 4 times and called him once to make sure he understood the issues, he ended up making a massive blunder that essentially gave up our advantages entirely.
- Bruce finally illegally withdrew from the case while the case was still ongoing, resulting in extremely damaging client abandonment less than 24 hours before a scheduled call with opposing counsel.
I have filed a complaint with the CA State Bar, and demanded Arbitration of fees already. I am also in talks with a malpractice attorney, as I believe Bruce's failures to perform basic attorney functions have cost me more than just his fees at this point.
My advice is to run, not walk, to any family law attorney OTHER Than Bruce A Mandel.
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28 Aug, 2023 by Amanda stark
I had the unique experience of working with Bruce Mandel, even though he was originally hired by my ex-husband. Throughout this challenging process, Bruce and his team displayed an exceptional level of professionalism, compassion, and efficiency that truly set them apart.
From the moment I engaged with his practice, I was met with kindness and understanding. Bruce not only helped me navigate the legal complexities of divorce but also went above and beyond by providing me guidance with the paperwork. The staff at Bruce Mandel's office deserves special recognition as well. They were consistently informative, promptly returning my calls and ensuring that I had the information I needed to move forward in a timely manner. Never once did I feel like a burden, and their willingness to assist was both comforting and greatly appreciated.
Bruce Mandel and his team stood out as beacons of professionalism and support. Their exceptional service, combined with their genuine care for their clients, made a difficult process as smooth as possible. I couldn't recommend their services more highly.
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15 Apr, 2023 by Damian camarena
Mr. Mandel is truly a Saint. He has helped me numerous times over a span of about 7 years. The work he has done for me and the advice I was given are priceless. He has the experience to get the best outcome for the family as a whole. I would recommend him to anyone in need of family law services.
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14 Jul, 2018 by Anonymous
My case was extremely involved and it was very difficult to find an attorney brave enough to get involved beyond the initial consultation. John stepped up and agreed to help, and help he did. He provided great counsel and support and laid out a winning strategy which led to a great outcome. I am so pleased that John handled my case and highly recommend his services. He truly cares and will guide you safely every step of the way.
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22 Oct, 2016 by Julie
I highly recommend. My friend referred me to Mr. Credell, whom she had hired previously and gotten positive results. I was in an emergency situation and Mr. Credell immediately got back to me and kept in touch consistently and thoroughly via phone, email and text. He won my case, and showed genuine care during this difficult time in my life.
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15 Oct, 2015 by Anonymous
Don't waste your money or time dealing with this Attorney! My Ex and I went into this guys office to use him as a mediator. After reaching an agreement in October, we were told our divorce would be FINALIZED by March (The date of separation was to be back dated to September 1st). After not hearing anything from John for several months, I emailed him (in March) attempting to find out what the status of our divorce was (since it should have been finalized by then). After having to send a couple of emails (due to not receiving a response), I was told that the courts were "backed up" and that was why it was delayed. I waited an additional month and again contacted John, who then told me that he needed a license plate number from one of our vehicles. After promptly giving him the information he needed, I again checked back a month later. John again gave me an excuse that made no sense.
Our divorce was Finalized A YEAR after it was supposed to be backdated as the date of separation! I again contacted John on two occasions and requested a partial refund due to his negligence in properly filing our divorce paperwork. I'd suggest if you're even considering using this guy that you may either consider one of two things: 1. Do it yourself (it would be quicker stumbling through the process than the time this guys takes) or 2. Go some where else where the guy has a clue what he is doing!
DO NOT USE THIS GUY!!!!!!!!!!!
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03 Sep, 2014 by Anonymous
Regarding a real estate matter I was a client of this individual who never returns phone calls. He operates off of an i-phone, has no office staff, a tiny office in Korea town, and will give you a sales pitch on how he performs. Basically he is all talk. He insists on upfront monies and does not perform. He will charge you for services such as motions, trials etc. and after you prepay he will do nothing for you. He will leave you "hanging out to dry" facing court deadlines and default with no paperwork filed. You will wind up paying another lawyer again to do the same work he was originally paid to do while wasting your time and money as well has screwing up your case. Avoid him like the plague is an understatement!
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02 Jul, 2010 by David
I have used Dan to represent me in 3 different unlawful detainers filed against me by an insane landlord. Dan charged me a fair price to handle all 3 cases. When we got into court, he SMOKED the plaintiff's attornies and won all 3 cases. He is well known in the eviction courts at Stanley Mosk Courthouse, and knows RENTERS RIGHTS inside and out. I recommend him unconditionally for anyone who is being evicted in Los Angeles. Dan is an angel and a savior! Whoever is complaining about him obviously did not have Dan defend him in court. He is a wonderful man and a wonderful attorney.
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14 Apr, 2010 by Anonymous
This atty is completely unprofessional. He gave me wrong advice which resulted in my unknowingly forfeiting the settlement I had entered into when he represented me. He would not return my phone calls for three weeks later citing "being busy". His "volunteer" who answers the phone a couple hours per day was extremely rude to me over the phone. I have been unable to get the receipt for the second installment of my fee payment. This guy is a crook.
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25 Feb, 2021 by Anonymous
I have known James since 2017. The previous review is false. He took a lot of time to help me and my family. Four meetings. I could not afford a consultation fee. He asked for nothing in return. He has a beautiful family, and has a wealth of experience beyond many attorneys. This was my experience.
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18 Nov, 2020 by Anonymous
Horrible greedy manipulates he doesn’t care if you struggling, a senior, mother on low income or disable he’s heartless and and lies about his fees beware stay away.
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14 Jul, 2023 by Arellano
After my fathers recent visit with Peter Keon to update his Will/Trust my father reports that Mr. Peter A. Keon treated him very unprofessionally and condescending. My father even scheduled an interpreter for their meeting and Mr. Keon kept insisting that my father should, “speak English” repetitively. Mr. Keon even made and comment to my father “you’re crazy” regarding something he didn’t agree with.
The interpreter was passive as she wasn’t equipped to translate correctly or even advocate for my father. My father felt miss represented throughout the entire meeting as Mr. Keons unprofessional demeanor resulted in Mr. Keon walking up out his seat to handle other matters as the translator was interrupting what my father was stating.
Mr. Keon’s was not only passive aggressive with certain statements and comments towards my father in the meeting but he was also very discriminating that my farther felt the aggression and had to walk out the meeting.
This company has been overall extremely disappointing and unprofessional. My father mentioned that it took several weeks to get this meeting scheduled with this law firm. To get treated this way is truly insensitive toward their clients. Especially ones who pay for their service.
We Do Not recommend this company to other and if you’re looking to get involved Stay Away especially if you are a Latino. The company is Not worth your time and especially not your money. My father no longer wants to be represent by this law firm and will take his assets elsewhere.
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10 Apr, 2011 by Anonymous
A recent opportunity working with Mr. Peter Keon, and I will definitely recommend my other clients to him. Two thumbs up.
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29 May, 2020 by William
Laura prepared a living trust for me. She explained the entire process of creating the trust and made it very simple for me to understand. She has an amazing way of connecting with her clients and I would highly recommend getting your living trust from her too. Her assistant has a very nice attitude and manor as well.
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13 Feb, 2013 by Anonymous
Someone I knew mentioned her, so I retained her services for a divorce. More than once she delayed the already slow process and then never provided me with the final docs needed to show proof of divorce. Then Itried to charge me more money to get them. Her personal life interfered with her professional life too often or at least that was her excuse. I would not recommend her.
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01 Jul, 2022 by Anonymous
He knows the ins and outs of his cases and will refer you if necessary if he doesn't specialize in what you need. Has helped me with lots of immigration work.
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17 Oct, 2015 by James
Terrible attorney he handled my family law case and he clearly advertises civil and business. I asked if he specialised I family cases and he said yes.He had no problem taking my money and obviously didn't care for my outcome of my case.Any attorney with any ethics would have been honest about not specializing in family cases.I would have been ok going to someone one but leading me to believe he knew what he was doing based on his experience is very upsetting.I now have to deal with the consequences of spending less time with my children.This is the only satisfaction I get the chance to post a review and hope someone reads it and thinks twice about doing business with mr.Keller
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25 Jun, 2015 by Scott
This man was recommended to me from a friend who said her mother used to work in the same building as him. I can understand this because there are like 5-7 lawyers running out of the same building. I was very hopeful in my child custody case seing as how I was already divorced and the stipulation was laid out in TX. I was coming home from the military. Maybe he saw that as his payday I dont know but the man did ABSOLUTELY nothing for me besides filing the already drawn up divorce decree in California which I could have done myself for 60 bucks. Everytime he came to court (twice) he seemed disheveled and had no idea about my case. He was litterally reading up on my case while the judge was talking to other cases in front of me. And I don't mean refreshing his memory I mean he would ask me things like she did what? or why is this this way? Like he had no idea what he was doing and just getting this information for the first time.
I initially paid him 2500 dollars and agreed to pay him 500 per month more until the 6000 dollar total was met. Apparetnly I was gettting a military discount. After the initial meeting/payment I never recieved a phone call or anything from him or his office despite me phoning him about a half a dozen times in 2 months and even showing up in his office unannounced to have his secretary tell me that he wasnt in. Get this. I literally saw him run into his office when he saw me!! And of course I could hear things going on back there. He wasnt in. WTF. I should have bolted then but my court date was that week. He calls me at 7pm the night before 830 court and asks if I know we have court tomorrow? WOW.
We went throught the first round in court and I stuck by him because everything was falling in place. I guess any lawyer could have done it I just needed someone one to set up visitation (which was already stipulated) and get the ball rolling having been out of the country for so long (4 years). That was the initial court date. The second court date was set 2 months after that. Leaving the court building he has the nerve to hit me up for parking money meters stating he didn't have any change which I just thought was low class move. Anyway new court date in 2 months. I call, weekly, and keep getting blown off and I sent a payment in. Finally I decided to not send a payment in because I wasnt gettting any feedback and maybe that might actually get him to do something about it. The night before court again I get a call from his office this time telling me that Mr Shook is dropping me as a client for failure to pay. The night before I was supposed to show up to court from one missed payment deliberately done because my questions fell on deaf ears. No explination, no calls about the payment, nothing until the day before my case he drops me.
THE MAN TOOK 4000 dollars from a Veteran!!!! As for my money I sat down with Mr Shook after showing up again uninvited only this time he couldnt run and hide. He waved all this paperwork in my face as proof he did something. Of the 56 pages in the document he was waving (and screaming at me literally) 3 were his work. The other 53 was the divorce decree from Texas me and my ex wife already had from 2009. His 3 additions? The request to transfer documents from TX to CA that was 2 pages and one page notifiying my intentions to persue legal action or somehting like that I dont understand legal stuff sorry. Thats it. 4 Grand for 2 documents.
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23 Apr, 2015 by Diana
I only gave 1 star since it wont ley me choose 0. My family hired Mr. Shook a little over 2 years ago after we were in need of a Criminal Defense attorney for my brother. Mr. Shook informed my brother's wife and my parents that he had dealt with the type of criminal case we needed an attorney for and was experienced. That was a lie. Mr. Shook was my brothers attorney when he was being charged for murder. It took over 1 year before the case went to trial. From the first meeting that my family had with Mr. SHOOK he was informed that my brother (the client) had been drinking all night on New Years Eve to the point that he had blacked out. Mr. Shook ignored us and never reviewed his medical records. In fact throughout the whole time he only visited with my brother in jail no more than twice. He would only see my brother during his hearings. He did no discovery work of his own a d relied on the discovery work that the prosecution team had. He never interviewed any witnesses. Mr. Shook claimed he would hire a state crime scene investigator. He never did. Through out the whole time he continued to ignore us telling him that my brother was intoxicated and not a regular drinker. Instead of subpoening my brothers medical records from the hospital to obtain any evidence of his blood alcohol levels he had my sister in law his wife running around doing it her self. He also told her to go to downtown LA to obtain. A copy of the paramedic report. That is his job as his attorney. That's why he was being paid for. He did nothing. After my brother was convicted for 1st degree murder because Mr. SHOOK defense was mistaken identity even though they had an eye witness. He failed to hire an expert to review my brothers hospital medical records. If he had done so they would have discover that his blood alcohol level was 3x the legal limit and also under the influence of drugs to the point that my brother blacked out and had no recollection of that mornings events. Therefore making this an involuntary manslaughter case not a murder case. So instead of my brother serving 8 to 20 years he's serving 50 years to life for first degree murder. Due to this we don't believe he worked more that 6 hours on my brothers trial through the 2 years and was not prepared to go to trial. Mr. Shook was so upset that we had decided to fire him and obtain an experienced attorney the day of the sentencing that we said my brother was a liar. If henreally believed that why would he even take my parents money and pocket it and accept to represent my brother??..Now we are working with a true criminal defense attorney that is handling my brothers appeal. Mr shook is now working with the prosecutor to have my brother appeal denied and giving false Information stating that we never informed him that my brother was intoxicated...Mr. Shook did not care about representing my brother all he wanted was to get paid and as soon as he did his job was done and he did nothing after that. I hope this review helps anyone out their and decide to go to a true criminal defense attorney instead of Mr. SHOOK. If you decide to hire him...well good luck.
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11 Mar, 2013 by Gus
Thank you mike shook ,
I thank god for leading me to you ,
I wish the best for you and everyone you love
because of you I am with my 10 year old daughter and Rosy , mr shook god bless you
And your family
it is a pleasure to have met you.
mike you always in my thoughts
Thank you from the bottom of my heart
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25 Jan, 2015 by Anonymous
I am blown away by how bad my experience was with this law firm. This review could go one for pages with my concerns related to the profound lack of professionalism that Mr. Lindheim demonstrated during my workers' comp case but I will spare you. Lack of return phone calls, terrible advice and an apparent lack of interest in my case pervaded the years of my interactions with Lindheim and his staff. I cannot recommend enough that you either do not use Lindheim, or if you do, to drop him the instant you feel that he is being disrespectful, unresponsive or ineffective.
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15 Jul, 2022 by Anonymous
He didn't know the law, got into a fight with opposing counsel, cost way more than he should have and didn't gain anything in the process.
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17 Oct, 2018 by Anonymous
We hired Paul as our attorney for a simple transaction. He failed to follow through, made amateur mistakes that were unbelievable and unacceptable, and delayed the process due to multiple family emergencies. Now in retrospect I question if this was a way to increase billing?
This was an easy and straight forward simple legal transaction that Paul could not get the simplest tasks completed accurately. His partner, Jim Hinds, does not make these errors, but Jim is not practicing at the level that he used to and as a result Jim is not providing the mentorship, direction and supervision that Paul so dearly needs. Jim is the big picture guy and Paul is the soldier. The clients are paying the ultimate price with poor representation and high legal fees that maybe questionable.
I do not write this review with great comfort, but feel that I have a responsibility to provide the information. If there are others who have experienced similar outcomes I encourage you to do the same and disclose your experience for the benefit of the legal consumer community.
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13 Jun, 2013 by Anonymous
He was the WORST attorney I've ever met. I cannot believe he is still in practice. He is poor, obnoxious, and dangerous. He basically threatened me once he finds out EVERY SINGLE thing is not what he wants it to be. Obviously he has some issues in himself since he brings out his own problem of being poor. He has really bad reputation in the building his firm is located. Horrible, Lazy, Dangerous person!
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03 Nov, 2023 by Anonymous
I called the law office and spoke with the attorney briefly. He was aggressive, rude, and shouted at me when I was simply trying to present my case and see if the law firm would represent me. Based on this attorney's behavior I would definitely not recommend anyone use this firm.
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15 Feb, 2024 by Peedy
THIS LAWYER ISNT RIGHT. WE HIRED HIM TO REPRESENT US IN TWO ACCIDENTS. WE CAME OUT SHORT ON BOTH ENDS OF THE STICK. SUPPOSELY 7 PPLS WAS ON OUR CASE N HE COULD ONLY GET US $2500 MY GUY, A LITTLE MORE. NO PAPERWORK.
SECOND TIME. HE RIPPED MY GUY OFF OF $300 WHEN WE WENT TO HIS OFFICE THE FIRST TIME, IT WAS $300 MORE. THE SECOND TIME WHEN THE CHECK CAME IN. IT WAS $300 LESS. MY GUY SIGNED THE PAPER TOO FAST. TOLD MY GUY, HE LUCKY HE GOT ANYTHING HE WASNT ON MY INSURANCE. I HAD FULL COVERAGE.
LAST. I CALLED HIM EARLY PART OF 2023 N ASKED HIM ABOUT MY LAST CASE. GE TOLD ME THERE WASNT ONE BECAUSE I DIDNT GO TO THERAPY. YES I DID. BECAUSE HE SET IT UP. THEN COME THIS MONTH TWO 1)2 MONTHS BEFORE MAY. HE TELLS ME TO ACT SOON R STATUE OF LIMITATIONS WILL RUN OUT. HE DELIBERATELY THREW ME UNDER THE BUS BECAUSE IF A MISUNDERSTANDING W/HIM N MY GUY. IM CONTACTING THE LAWYER BAR N FILING A COMPLAINT AGAINST HIM. THIS MAN DONOT NEED TO BE IN BUSINESS AS A LAWYER. THERES NO REVIEWS OF HIM TO BE IN PRACTICE FOR 23 YEARS.
HE DOESNT DESERVE A STAR AT ALL.
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18 Jun, 2013 by Noah
Horrible. Violates confidentiality, rude, biased and tries to inflict her views of creation vs. evolution on others. After meeting her, I wondered how did any law school grant her a law degree?
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