Sergio Jose Siderman

I spent 4 1/2 years working on a loan modification with this attorney. He pushed me through bankruptcy and ruined my credit and financial records. Overall, the bank has refused his attempts to modify and now so much time has passed that we're so far underwater he can't do anything. He pushed me to... another attorney to clean up his mess.

I hired Sergio 3 years ago to represent my wife and I in a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. He assured us both he was he most skilled attorney in Los Angeles and that he had personally trained all of the employees that work for the Trustee's Office. In his words "No Worries, we know everyone and they will appr...ove our list of your monthly expenses. You will be paying your debtors back less than $200 p/month, your lifestyle will not change at all". Well that all changed with my first appearance in front of the Trustee. He sent some incompetent trainee to represent me. This person came into a room with my name written on a paper plate, talk about low class and demeaning. So I'm talking with this gentleman (attorney) asking questions about my case and cannot get an answer, he knows absolutely nothing about me, my situation or anything. He says he is just there to take the paperwork back to Sergio's office.Turns out the paperwork this guy has is incorrect, I was charged too much money, etc, etc, etc. This whole bankruptcy thing is not turning out too good so far. After leaving multiple messages for Sergio and calling dozens of times I finally get a return call from his office manager Jonathan. He assures me this will never happen again and that Sergio would personally handle my case. Not sure what was worse, when Sergio now goes back to court he gets my monthly payment set at $1,475 per month, not the $200 he assured me would happen. So I pay him more money to go back and fight this, guess what, it gets worse, now they are charging me $1,725 per month. He tells me he can do nothing more for me and that no other attorney could have done better. I cannot spend any more time on your case! So I start making some calls to other attorneys in the area, it turns out Mr Siderman has quite a reputation in the local BK courts and with the Trustee's Office. When I called the Trustee directly (something he told me not to do) they said my attorney was being disciplined and to go find another one. I couldn't believe it, he made them out to be the problem, and they actually helped me. I now have a competent attorney who lowered my payment to $700 per month, which is exactly what they said they would do. Two words of wisdom regarding Sergio Siderman STAY AWAY !!!!

My wife and I saved all of our lives and had invested in properties all over the country. When the recession hit, we found ourselves with defaulting tenants and mortgages we couldn't afford. Thank God we found Sergio Siderman. He helped us protect our retirement in a chapter 7 bankruptcy while elimin...ating all of our bad debt. We never thought we would be able to overcome the enormous amount of real estate debt. Sergio saved our financial lives.