Hesam Dean Yazdanpanah

I was hit by a trash truck while riding my scooter in a bike lane. I found attorney Hamed Yazdanpanah aka Hess Panah and called him. He was very interested in the case enough to meet me at the hospital while i was waiting for medical care. He advised me to get every test imaginable. I told him i didn...t believe i needed some and what if we lose the case, I dont want to be on the hook for thousands of dollars in medical fees. He assured me all will be covered and i dont need to worry about a thing. He has his top investigation on the case and I was in great hands. He was misleading and predatory in my opinion. Took advantage of me while i was clearly incapacitated from the accident. After hitting my head and receiving a slight concussion, he abused his status and knowledge of the law. He left the hospital after coaxing me into signing a retainer, no fee, he promised to call me the next day. He never called so i sent an email. He never responded to multiple calls, text or emails. 10 days later i decided to go and investigate the accident myself. I went to multiple stores and was able to get some amazing store owners to help me get security videos of right after the incident. Being time sensitive, the first week or two after any accident are so vital to be able to provide a strong case because video recordings are not stored forever. If Hess stuck to his promise of investigating in a timely manner, he would have had an amazingly easy case to put together with strong evidence since the trash trucks have GPS and Video recording on all vehicles. Since I have videos being provided, i now will be calling the trash companies and finding out exactly who hit me and drove away. So in conclusion, Hess lied and mislead a concussed hospital patient into signing retainer and then abandoned him and still to the time of writing this, has not called, text or emailed a reason why he abandoned me. I would never advise anyone to use this attorney if they are unfamiliar with the law and want someone to guide them. Thanks to MY own work, i will be filing a civil suit and speaking with the culver city police again about possible accident charges on the driver of the truck. I do hope he reviews the lapse in judgment and ethics on his handling of this entire interaction and is able to make necessary changes so others are not financially, physically and mentally harmed by his actions (or lack of). I doubt i will ever hear from him even after this review but he is ethically wrong and i may submit an official grievance with the Bar. Ill just have to do more research on that, but since i have been researching all these other legal i hired him to do, Im sure ill be able to navigate how to submit a grievance easily.

I would have given zero stars if I could. Dealing with him was horrendous and beyond stressful. Do yourself a favor and stay far away. He only cares about you/your case if it’s a SERIOUS $800k+ brain injury case where he can get paid. Otherwise, he doesn’t care and doesn’t communicate. He doesn’t eve...n have the decency to respond to emails or texts, and I was his client for 3 years. Pick someone else, there are 100 amazing lawyers in LA, he is NOT one of them.