Carpenter & Zuckerman: California

I understand attorneys are busy, and my case is not the only one they are working. However, there is a level of responsibility that must be met and that includes informing their client how their case is progressing, and being honest. I do not believe that is the case here. My case was transferred to a litigation attorney at this law office 1 year ago. I was involved in a serious accident that incurred scarring, and the inability to function normally for almost 3 months. In addition, there were a number of medical bills that were incurred. I have managed to speak with the "litigation attorney" once in the last year. I have made upwards of 40 calls and left numerous messages. Most of the time I was blocked by the receptionist or directed straight to voicemail. The male receptionist would recognize my name and rudely state "he will call you back". The only conversation included the false reassurance that things would be moving faster, and he was making serous progress with my case. This was almost 1 year ago.... Since then the "litigation attorney" has screened my calls and otherwise manages to continually dodge any interaction or information. I would suggest anyone experiencing similar problems file a complaint with State Bar of California.

This firm was brought on to my case and it was assigned to Nick Rowley. From the start everything went well. I was not happy Nick had us come down to have dinner with him because he goes and teaches he goes and cooks dinner for clients so he gets to know them. This is far from true as I myself and others have talked. We traveled over 750 miles to see Nick and spent time with him. We went to his house to meet him for maybe 15 minutes and then he had Steve Glass take us out to dinner. Then he had us go to Las Vegas to get married as he said juries believe people more when there're married and so does the courts. So we went. I was not sure about all this and these trips to LA and then to Las Vegas, where adding up fast and I was told this comes out of your settlement. I was not happy.Nick settled my case for far less than what other attorneys tell me it should have settled for. But he told me we would loose and we had to take the offer. I did not want the offer. There were some shady things that went down during trial that you can read on another website.Then this went to settlement conference and Nick hired his old business partner in a law firm they had before. So this attorney was dis-barred the night before my hearing. No one showed up to the hearing for me. So as you can see this is the legal service you get from this firm. I would be very careful about this law firm before you use them and make sure you are comfortable and bet me they will wine and dine you and then let you down. Yeah, they have these great verdicts, but remember they rarely get that much it settles for far less. So don't be fooled by the verdicts and all the articles they have in their office.Please do your research hard and remember law firms hind there dirt it shows up on page 3 of google and up from there. They have SEO companies hind the real complaints. Just like how Mr. Rowley has been on Bar Suspension for two years. Don't see that on the first page. This is my opinion and others might have had great experience, but mine and others have been horrible, I would beg you do your research.