Colleen Golden

In September 2014 we filed a Chapter 13 with this firm. At first everything seemed ok; then around March 2015, their inept staff (including attorneys) began to make monumental mistakes with our case. Being a Paralegal myself I was well aware of the importance of providing proper documents and timel...y filings with the court; not to mention prompt follow up and adequate research. Long story short, they failed to make filing deadlines and provide previously supplied documents to the Court & the U.S. Trustee. As such our case was dismissed, and we didn’t even know it. In June 2015 we received attorney solicitation mail informing us that our case had been dismissed. Albeit they begged us to come into the office to fix it, we hired another attorney. Our new attorney was shocked beyond belief at the debacle that they created and proceeded to fix their mess. In July 2015, she successfully filed a Chapter 7 out of the mess they made. In August 2015 Golden filed a fee application to the funds in the Trustee’s coffer, which had been accumulated from the Chapter 13. At the direction of my new attorney I drafted and filed an objective motion in an effort to preclude them from receiving the $3000 that they did not deserve. The court had set a date to hear the objection, but on the day of, the clerk called my attorney and instructed us not to come. The Judge gave an ultimatum; either he call a special set hearing to address the objections that I had raised, or give us our money back. Golden opted for the later and returned all of our money because they knew they were guilty of everything that was spoken of in that objection. My new attorney was ecstatic and very proud of the work that I had done. (Mind you I am not a Bankruptcy Paralegal so the success of this was purely of a divine nature.) In November 2015 our case was discharged and we are now debt free. As for C. Golden, well, at last check they had to go back to court to deal with the allegations cited in my objection but we weren’t required to be there we were only noticed. August 2016, I see that they have changed the name of their outfit to the Kelly Law Group. I suppose they will rob people under a new identity now.