Charles Jack Malki

I hired Charles for a short sale of a home and it was an absolute nightmare. He does not answer calls, return calls, emails, whatever. It was a horrendous experience and certain people on his staff are even worse, just rotten. Short sales take a lot of knowledge, tenacity, negotiations. Find someone... else, you'll be better off for it. I have tried to post this review 3x now, if Avvo does not post this review, I will makes sure it goes on Google, Yelp and others to warn the public.

This lawyer promised help with a loan modification on our home. His admin staff try to be helpful, but are not very knowledgeable at all. I spent very little time talking to an actual lawyer at the Malki Law Firm. I realized I was just paying for clerks to complete modification forms that I could hav...e done myself at home. I ended up doing my own research, and suggesting direction in terms of programs/legal settlements/help etc. Unfortunately this firm just jumped on the "loan modification/ homeowner in distress" bandwagon simply to make money. They have little knowledge or experience in this field, and have set up a "mill" to perform these tasks. If your case is not cookie cutter, they will not know what to do. I don't know if they are more experienced in regular buy/sell real estate law, but they have no clue about defending your home if you are in distress. Not recommended.

I would not recommend this lawyer, in our initial meetings he portrayed himself and his firm very well, in practice they were completely unresponsive, over the course of a year they only returned my call on two occasions regardless of how many times I left a message. When I did manage to speak with ...one of the ever revolving members of his staff I got completely conflicting answers, sometimes my case was about to be resolved and was turning out very well, others it was going to be a complete loss. When it was finally resolved (with a forclosure) noone contacted me, I found out through my building, after trying all day to speak with anyone at the firm he finally had the receptionist tell me that we had lost and there was nothing more they would be able to do. I list that I worked with three to five because the lawyers assigned to my case by him kept either leaving or being fired.