Alexandra A. Hamilton
The Veen Firm PCSeann P Malloy
Malloy Law Offices LLC
Raymond Wooten
Smith Jordan, PA
Sean Carmody
Carmody and Ging, Attorneys at Law
Marc Lamber
Lamber Goodnow
Rocky McElhaney
Rocky McElhaney Law Firm
Jesse Bernheim
Bernheim Kelley Battista, LLC
Joseph L. Benson II, Esq.
Benson & Bingham Accident Injury Lawyers, LLC
Jerry DeVita
Carner & DeVita Accident Counsel
Don Ernst
Ernst Law Group
Richard S. Jaffe
Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe, LLP
Adam Johnson
The Johnson Firm
Jonathan L. Johnson
The Johnson Firm
Terrible
ncompetence, disingenuous, and superficial are traits reflecting the Veen firm.
There’s a saying “all lawyers go to hell” and I never understood what that meant until my experience with the Veen firm. I was involved in a personal injury incident and my case was referred to the Veen firm from another lawyer in Sacramento.
I had signed a contingency-based contract with Elinor, the primary lawyer who would be representing me. Throughout the 3 years of representation, she was very much absent and my communications/interactions were mostly with her minions, Alexandra, Jennifer, and Alice. You would think they would inform Elinor or Elinor requesting to be updated but clearly me of that had occurred as I’ll go more into detail below.
Throughout my interactions with them, I would be doing most of the work providing them all the documentations from my health providers and more. It felt like I would have to initiate the engagements to get updates which was very frustrating. You don’t know what sleazy lawyers do and why their costs are so high because you have no viability and have to trust they’re doing their job with utmost competence.
The legal process is intense, exhausting, and broken. The Veen firm hardly prepared me, my family and friends, and witnesses of what to expect. Their was lack of communication from the Veen firm to them and the inconveniences they endured by the Veen firm reflects how terrible the firm operates.
The Veen firm legal team led by Elinor were outperformed and outmaneuvered by their defense counterparts in every way. What’s most embarrassed they were outclassed by a man who looks like a slimy car salesman. It felt like the defense team put more effort to representing the insurance company by researching my medical providers, social media, and etc. than mine which was disheartening because I should have followed my heart and fired Elinor and the Veen firm prior to trial.
Their strategy was a failure and they would not take my advice in further exposing the client’s destruction of evidence and lack of witnesses. If you hire attorneys to represent you, they should be open to listening to your suggestion. Clearly, they were fixed on their own way which had a disastrous result.
What was the nail in the coffin was finding out not one but TWO of my health providers whom the Veen firm used as witness had a felony and misdeamonor records the defense had brought up. HOW do you not do your research?! I had to find out in trial which left me completely demoralized. What was the Veen firm doing all this time?
Although we had a winning verdict, this whole ordeal was not worth it. The Veen firm hardly gave me any expert advice or guidance. Post-trial, they showed their true colors. I was clearly upset of their performance and more importantly, the service they provided. I had involved family friends who are sound lawyers and they asked the Veen firm tough questions which they could not answer. This is when the Veen firm showed their true colors. They should have done their work which was stipulated in the contract. They were more focused on expensing Starbucks coffee than doing actual research and work.
Because of the outcome of the case, I was filing for application of f arbitration on disputing their ridiculously high costs and fees. Fortunately, they had adjusted the costs and fees which indicates their incompetence and failure to provide the service that was disclosed on the contract we had signed.
I recommend those who are ever looking for representation (my heart goes out to you) to hold these opportunistic and superficial lawyers’s feet to the fire. Be sure you stay on top of them. Do NOT put your unconditional trust in them thinking they will look out for your best interest. They only look at their bottom line and see you as $$$.