Y Jessie Shaw

Y Jessie Shaw

4.8
Rating: 8.5

Licensed for 34 years

Family Lawyer at Pasadena, CA
Practice Areas: Family, Domestic Violence, Divorce & Separation, Child Custody

175 S Lake Ave Ste 210, Pasadena, CA

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Licenses

Licensed in California for 34 years

State: California

Acquired: 1991

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Law Offices of Y Jessie Shaw

175 S Lake Ave Ste 210, Pasadena, CA, 91101-3065

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4.8 /5.0

22 Client Reviews

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Posted by PJ | February 10, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Family

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I highly recommend you to see Jessie Shaw since her very good public reputation and Chinese speaking capability. She is very knowledgeable not only in Family-laws she is also excellent in real estate, stocks and retirement. Her thorough knowledge gives her ability in simplifying complex issues to con...clusion resolving precisely fast and easy. As an engineer’s point of view, I have to say math and logical thinking is also impressing. Greg Almas, her associate, is also a hard worker. He is familiar with jurisprudence and used into his cases to increase highest wining possibilities. The best part is their teamwork, they discuss, debate between them and finalize an impeccable argument. I had a bad experience with another attorney who initiated my case and took my money but did not perform any further work about two years. By a friend’s recommendation, I came to see Jessie Shaw, they solved my case the best way. I appreciate their work and like to recommend them to anyone who is seeking help in any family practice cases.

Posted by Kitty | July 11, 2016 | Hired Attorney | Divorce & Separation

Very very professional and very excellent lawyer

Jessie and Greg help me to solve my divorce case. I am sure my case is one of most difficult. She is very nice and professional, she gave me very helpful advice and gave me the correct direction. Finally, I solved my case in last two month, after we worked around 3 years. I very thank her and her tea...m's great hard working. Highly recommend to hire her as your lawyer.

Posted by anonymous | February 12, 2013 | Divorce & Separation

I had a horrible experience at this law office!

I had a horrible experience at this law office and I highly regretted having hired this law office for my divorce case. There are only two attorneys at this office: Ms. Jessie Shaw and Mr. Almas, both of them were very unprofessional in handling my case. Here is what happened: 1) Lying about having p...aralegal and using attorney Almas to do paralegal forms and charging me with full attorney rate just unbelievably dishonest and unprofessional! On the retainer contract, they listed the fees for legal services by paralegal, but in reality, this office didn't have any paralegals, Mr. Almas acted like Ms. Jessie Shaw's secret paralegal, filling all basic forms that in other law offices handled by paralegal then charged me a full attorney rate for those paralegal works. It's reasonable to assume the clients of the Law Offices of Y. Jessie Shaw are being billed in similar manner and without prior notification. 2) Ms. Jessie Shaw was really rude and very unprofessional; my first meeting with her was already a red flag: she was sleeping when I walked in her office for my appointment; asked me to find her secretary as I were her employee; promised me to review my case and handle with urgency but turned around dumped my case to her associated attorney who I have never met; over promised on document delivery time and forced me to pay two Motions filed by the opposing attorney due to her office's mishandling my case. When I called the office to question her on the mistakes her office made, instead of listening to my feedback and giving me reasonable explanations, Ms. Jessie Shaw was calling me names and yelling at me. Her rudeness and unprofessional behavior were shocking to me. 3) This law office has billed me for drafting settlement that has never been delivered to me. Moreover, this office billed me for many other services without my consent. In the end, I had to fire the Law Offices of Y. Jessie Shaw and I was forced to represent myself at the court and reached a final settlement. Last but not the least, Jessie Shaw told me to my face that divorce is miserable only for those who are going through it; to her and her associate attorney Mr. Almas, all divorce is entertainment and the longer they drag the divorce war, the more money they make as attorneys! So, if you are Asian and you think Jessie Shaw looks like Asian therefore she will share your feelings and fight for your minority rights, YOU ARE WRONG!

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Experience

Rating:  8.5 (Excellent)

Honors

2017

Certified Specialist - Family Law, State Bar of California

2016

10 Best Female Attorney, American Institute of Family Law Attorneys

2012

Certified Specialist - Family Law, State Bar of California

2007

Certified Specialist - Family Law, State Bar of California

2005

Temporary Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court

2003

Temporary Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

2002

Certified Specialist - Family Law, State Bar of California

1994

Certificate of Participation and Generous Support, Los Angeles International Cup Dragon Boat Festival

1993

Outstanding Volunteer Family Law, Los Angeles County Bar Association

1992

Certificate of Tribute, Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law

1982

Master of Chinese Calligraphy, National Chung Hsing University

Work Experience

1992 - Present

Attorney, Law Offices of Y. Jessie Shaw

1995 - 2004

Judge Pro Tem, Los Angeles Superior Court

1990 - 1991

Assistant to CEO, Pacific Rim Tech

Associations

2002 - Present

Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

Member

1993 - 1994

Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association

Co-chair

1992 - 1993

Taipei and Los Angeles Sister City

Co-chair

1992 - 1993

United Way

Asian Youth Center Fundraising Co-Chair

Education

1991

Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law

JD - Juris Doctor

1986

National Chung Hsing University

LL.B - Bachelor of Laws

Speaking Engagements

2014

Legal Talk

Family law

2013

Legal Talk

Prenuptial

1994

Legal Seminar

Domestic Violence Prevention

1992

Legal Seminar

Family Law

Languages

Mandarin

Chinese, Min Nan

English

Taiwanese

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