Steven Carmine Gambardella

Months after a meeting where he said I didn't have a case but he wanted to see my medical records, I learned that he had filed a lawsuit in my name. He sent me acknowldgement forms and his office said not to date them or write anything else on them they would fill that out. After the fact, I am reali...zing I have no idea what he did with them. He filed my lawsuit and I never even signed papers agreeing to work with him. Now my case is destroyed. What do I do? First I suffer at the hands of a California doctor, then a California attorney destroys my medical malpractice case. What the heck is going on?

Steve Gambardella was a terrible lawyer for me; he did not seem to have my best interest at heart. He asked me not to communicate with him directly and was uncaring. He has a temper, didn't treat me with respect, refused to listen to what I know about my own body and life, fully work up the case, or ...keep me updated on my own case. Steve dropped my serious meritorious case a few months before trial after trying to pressure me to sign a paltry $29,999.99 settlement agreement, (a penny under the $30,000 reporting limit), with a gag clause that his assistant called "a bribe." A couple of other lawyers who looked at the case since said they are shocked at how poorly Steve handled the case and said if they had been at the helm, it would have succeeded; I am disabled and at risk for homelessness due to failures I was told by attorneys could have been well handled by a skilled and compassionate legal professional. Unfortunately, in California, it's difficult for a plaintiff to get a solid medical malpractice lawyer, and so dangerous doctors continue to practice and harm other innocents, and survivors of medical harm continue to suffer unimaginable fallout from the medical harm.

There is a hearing on my case in two days which has been rescheduled several times over many months. I have been asking him for more than 6 months what is the content of the motion he filed for that hearing and he has never told me. Additionally, he got angry at me for asking this, and has ordered me... not to try to talk to him on the phone, and only in writing. He has failed to respond to my written requests for status in almost a year.