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Warning !!

The Pacific Law Center has filed a company dissolution owing millions in unearned fees, and unreturned fees to clients, advertisers, landlords and others

As quoted from an article in Sign On San Diego:

Documents filed recently in 2010 in San Diego Superior Court show eviction proceedings have begun against the firm at its main office on Nobel Drive in University City. The building owner is seeking $197,000 from it's tenant the Pacific Law Center.

“Kerry Steigerwalt’s Pacific Law Center will eventually go out of business,” Steigerwalt said Thursday, July 15. 2010.

In a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed in July 2010 in Superior Court, attorney Thomas Slattery contends he was fired from the firm in February after complaining about illegal and unethical activities.

In his lawsuit, Slattery details problems he says plagued the firm before and after Steigerwalt merged his firm with Pacific Law Center in February 2008. Slattery said the firm employed intake counselors whose job was to sign up “as many clients as possible for the highest fees possible

The intake staffers — many of whom were former car salesman — were not lawyers but gave legal advice, quoted legal fees and made false promises, he said.

Slattery, a supervising attorney at the firm, said he complained to management and owners about the intake counselors’ behavior but nothing changed.

He said he was instructed by Steigerwalt to delay refunds to clients and to deny them when possible. Slattery filed complaints with the State Bar of California, the state Attorney General’s Office and the state Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, according to the lawsuit.

Steigerwalt responded he knew intake clerks used a tactic known as a “glue practice,” taking a customer’s driver’s license and holding onto it while pressuring the client to sign up. He also said that lawyers who signed the retainer agreements when a clerk clinched a deal were told not to discuss the facts of the case with the client. (end quotes)

On a related issue, the bankruptcy section of the Pacific Law Center headed up by Don Bokovoy and David Weil has re-banded as the Golden State Law Group.

Upfront fees charged by the "Golden State Law Group" to file Chapter 7 $2,839.00! (Every single penny paid in full prior to filing!)
Advertised fee promise: "I will accept your case with no upfront attorneys fees"
Click Here-to see the actual court document!.

Upfront Fees charged by the The Pacific Law Center to file Chapter 7 $2,290 (Every penny paid in full prior to filing!)
Advertised fee promise: Little or no money down
Click Here to see the actual court document!

(read reviews about the Golden State Law Group)

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1. Find an attorney who will take the payments after the case is filed!
2. Report a change of circumstances to the attorneys office that will make payment to the attorney a hardship for you!
3. Request the attorney to discharge his fee's in your case. The firm can still gain substantial compensation by taking a bad debt tax write off for the unpaid fee's at the end of the taxable year!
4. Request the attorney to file an amended schedule G rejecting the executory retainer agreement after the case is filed!
5. Request the attorney to seek compensation directly from the creditors for bankruptcy services rendered on your behalf!
6. Request the bankruptcy court to pay the attorney rather than you!
7. File under Chapter 13 and discharge the attorneys fee's under your chapter 13 plan!

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