Sheila Esmaili

Sheila's performance was breathtaking. At my hearing, she took the bull by the horns and blew away the other side. She was in another league compared to our adversaries. She tore the other side up with her superior knowledge of bankruptcy law. She was so good that it left the other side speechles...s (yes their lawyers included). She made the nightmare I was dealing with for 7 years go away in about an hour. I never dreamed this good fortune would come my way this quick. Thanks to Sheila, my family and I now live out of harms way and worry free. My family and I will forever be grateful to Sheila. Her thoughtfulness and extraordinary intellectual legal services will have a positive effect on my family for generations to come. She always cared about my best interest and wellbeing and really did take us out of severe harms way. I can't thank her enough.

She is a great associate attorney. She was helpful and supportive. She was knowledgeable and did her best to help me understand my options in this case. She was able to keep up with the twists and turns of the case, i.e. when a plan of reorganization seemed unfeasible and we then changed path toge...ther pursued a plan of liquidation. She wasn't afraid to recommend various options that could help my case, and she wasn't afraid to tell me her opinion, and I found this admirable. My bankruptcy was very complicated, so I am sure it was difficult at times to approach every issue in my case with clarity. However, Sheila did her best to keep me informed throughout the entire process and I felt we were working on everything together. She facilitated communication between Michael Berger and myself, and she wasn't afraid to demand attention in aspects of my case that were difficult to get past.

Sheila Esmaili is a very compassionate woman, and maintained a remarkably professional demeanor while assisting me through what was one of the most trying times of my life. She is more than anything, a very knowledgeable attorney. She kept me aware of all of my options before and throughout my bank...ruptcy, while empowering me to understand what otherwise was a very complex and new experience that was extremely foreign to me. Her communication skills are advanced and were critical in easing the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy process. She was very thorough in every aspect of my case, whether it was communicating with other professionals, my creditors, or the other attorneys at her firm which she worked closely with to make careful decisions on my case. She made a significant effort to keep me in the loop with all correspondence with the Judge and Trustee. She was very thorough in her communication with me after every hearing and maintained a very personal awareness of my needs as a Debtor during that time. She is also extremely patient, and I appreciated her ability to remain professional and kind during any phase of my case, no matter how complex. Most importantly, she was patient with the fact that I was so new this process. She completed her work in a timely manner and did not make mistakes on any paperwork submitted in my case. She was consistently and outstandingly able to explain all of my options and consequences of my Chapter 11 process. Additionally, she helped maintain a fluid relationship between myself, other attorneys at the Law Offices of Michael Jay Berger, and the Trustee in our case. I would recommend Sheila as a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Attorney to those I care about, and I would work with her again should the need to do so ever arise.

Since April 13, 1992, my husband and I have been the CEO of Hoskins Enterprises, Inc. We are in the business of providing adult day care services for mentally disabled adults. After over 20 years of being in business, we came close to losing everything when a former employee sued us. In an effort ...to save our corporation, we filed a chapter 11 bankruptcy two years ago. In our first year in bankruptcy, our case was handled by 6 different attorneys and paralegals, with no progress in our case. Then Sheila took over our case, and everything changed. We thought she would just be another attorney to come in and out of our case, boy were we wrong! Sheila is efficient, disciplined, and looks at the big picture. She took over our case, reviewed it, pinpointed all the issues with our case and addressed every single one of them, within only the first few of weeks! The first 3 days on our case, she negotiated a settlement with the former employee who sued us, and did not quit until a settlement was reached. She then addressed all other issues of our case, and then immediately filed a modified chapter 11 plan. After only a few weeks of handling our case, she resolved everything! Needless to say, our chapter 11 plan was confirmed in the very first hearing since Sheila took over our case! Even the Judge stated she appreciated and was impressed at how promptly the new handling attorney was at addressing all the issues of our case! And it did not end there. After we confirmed our plan, Sheila continued to keep a close eye on our case, making sure we were in compliance every step of the way. To this day, Sheila continues to go above and beyond what is required of her, because she cares, she knows what she is doing, and she will not quit until she gets the results she promises her clients. She promised us she will save our business, and she did. Thanks to Sheila and her chapter 11 team, last month we celebrated our 21st year anniversary in business!