Dennis Paul Block

Worst, most detrimental Attorney, and most dishonest Attorney representation we have ever experienced. I am an attorney, but I do not practice Eviction / Unlawful Detainer law. So my partner and I retained Dennis Block’s office to handle an Eviction Trial to evict a non-paying Tenant. Huge mista...ke, unfortunately. Attorney Block charged a high retainer, we received very little representation services, and they were largely useless. Especially considering that Block’s Office charged us many thousands of dollars and then promised us a partial refund which we never received. Despite many requests fir the refund, all we received were broken promises and lies. Their Office clearly and repeatedly breached their agreement to refund us the promised funds. Our complaints to the State Bar, requests for Arbitration, and requests for our promised refund have so far been fruitless. So we now have no choice but to sue the Block Office for Breach of their Agreements and to get our refund. The Block Office and the State Bar oversight have let us down for months.

That was my mistake. I did not. I had an extremely unique eviction and wanted to discuss options but was treated like a complete nuisance. I even paid the $500 "concierge fee" to wait on hold for almost an hour EVERY PHONE CALL. I tried to tell Dennis Block who told me I was being unreasonable with m...y contant emails (I was responding to him telling me to vall the office - providing updates on the wait time). At another time, I mentioned that I myself wanted this expedited and he LITERALLY YELLED at me saying to "not put words in his mouth and he never said he would expedite" to which I attempted to respond that I WAS TALKING ABOUT MYSELF, but couldnt get in a word edgewise before he hung up on me . Just HORRIFIC customer service all around, just not worth it. Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere!

While no other Landlord Lawyers during Covid were willing to take my case because legitimate fears of losing, Dennis P Block was the only one willing to take my money. I asked him about the chances of winning my illegal Sub-Tenancy case and that day hungry Dennis Block himself answered and told me "...People do not pay me for my good looks" so I thought I was going to win. He typed up everything about my case over the phone, and collected my money without sending me a complete engagement agreement to sign. He wrote a up a letter/notice to the tenant and sent it that same day, while I had not yet signed his engagement agreement. I did not know he was that desperate for money. The tenant received his notice the Feb 8 the same day after he had paid me and went crazy on me. The tenant then got California State Sponsored Attorney Basta firm to represent him. The case I thought was going ok, but they kept charging me frivolous court appearances while the tenants attorney was appearing remotely Dennis P Blocks attorney were going in to court to rack up the bill. Fast forward, I was at the mandatory settlement conference in June 2021, the tenant offered to pay all back rent and asked to stay, I asked Dennis Blocks attorney what do do, all he said was "Whichever path you take, you cannot turn back" what kind of answer is that? So I refuse the settlement, and I regret it now, we were set for what I thought was a trial which was set for 08/26/2021. On 08/25/2021 I flew from Maryland where I live currently for trial, but guess what there was no trail and I did not need to be there because the tenant asked for Jury Trail and Dennis Block knew this information before hand and did not tell me that It was a Non-Jury Trail and chances are tenant will ask for Jury trail, or that I could have appeared remotely. In fact the day before 08/26 Melinda (whatever her name is) who sounded like an attorney but knows how to get you to pay, called me, asking for more money "so that Dennis Block could be ready for trial" she said "we need to be ready for trail so we need a minimum of $3000." She was lying. A trial which they knew was not going to happen. I mean are they naive? Do they not know the games tenants will play? I kept asking her on the phone, if I needed to fly down or not, but she had no idea. In fact no one replied back to my emails, so I took an emergency flight that night for $500 to LA for the trial next day. I was looking forward to getting justice the next day, but the next day when I went to court for the so called trial lol there was an young attorney there with a 2 page file in his hand who tells me there is no trial today, huh?? Why did I come down? Why did they not simply reply back to my email telling me I did not need to come? The attorney at this point asked me about Evidence against the tenant? Now, all these thoughts in my mind were going crazy, I started to cry, I hardly ever cry, I said you are barely asking me for evidence now after 7 months? I came ready for trial and now the tenant wanted Jury Trial? Per the attorney, cost of Jury trail $2500 a day and could last 5 days. That's $12500 I no longer had plus the jury trial date for sometimes in February 2022 6 months later. So he asked me about settling. There is so much more to this.. Due to character limitation, I cannot write and tell you the entire agony this firm has put me through. They need to be reported. Call me if you need more info on them 3108972699 check out my review on google and yelp also...