Juanita Guillen

I am deeply grateful to Stuart, Juanita, and Sara for the way they stood by my side during two very difficult times in my life. On a personal level, their compassion and steady support gave me strength when I needed it most. On a professional level, their expertise, full transparency, and sound legal... advice built my trust and helped me feel confident in every decision I had to make. What truly sets this team apart is their ability to combine genuine care with top-tier legal skill. They gave me clear, practical guidance on multiple situations, and their communication was always exceptional — responsive, thorough, and reassuring. I feel incredibly fortunate to have had this group on my side, and I would wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone seeking attorneys who are not only highly skilled in the courtroom but also deeply committed to their clients’ well-being.

I started my first meeting with Attorney Juanita Guillen on 06/14/2022, I specifically told her that my main purpose is to take my rental property back from the tenants who has not pay rent since Oct, 2021 and also broken multiple items in the lease and also caused city violation items due to their m...isbehavior. We both agreed that we need to get the property back asap so we can sell it and also will go at-fault eviction and not go non-fault eviction. (A couple of people were in that meeting, including my house agents). After the meeting, I signed the contract with them on the same day. Also by request, I sent her all the related documents for my previous UD case and paid the $2350 that day. 2 weeks later on 07/01/2022, I got a new bill $557.40. So I paid it and at the same time, queried the attorney why we had not started our UD cases yet at that stage after I spent almost $3000. I got the feedback that we are waiting for tenants to make a mistake and deny our entry so we can file UD or else we have to wait till Oct to file a NON-Fault eviction. I pointed out at that time that NON-fault eviction is not one of the options we initially had in our conversation since the tenants have many faults already. And on 07/08/2022, I got another $2000 bill for a trust request. So I sent the attorney another email to require the reason why we cannot start an UD case based on the current situation. Based on our back and forth email conversation, we both agreed to fix the city violation code first(most of the items caused by tenants, like trashs were around the property everywhere). So I sent the tenants entry notice to fix the city violation code. But on 07/20, we suddenly received the tenants email, saying that by the requests of our attorney, they gave us the list of their inhabitability issues to ask us to fix. I was in a shock since we never got noticed or discussed with our attorney for this info. So I sent out another email to ask for an explanation and also mentioned we don’t prefer to pay for any service we never get noticed or never agreed with. Then we got the email back from our attorney that she will terminate our attorney-client agreement. Later on, I got another bill for $1194.75 which also includes multiple charges for all the above actions the Attorney did without our agreement. They also double charged me for some items, like sending me an email(charge once) and then leaving me a message to check my email for 1.37 minutes and then charge me for 10 minutes even though we had an agreement earlier that we should use email not VM. The attorney also charged me 5 unapproved emails to send to the tenants' attorney but when I requested those emails, they were only able to supply 4 emails to me. I questioned the attorney for the legibility to send these emails without noticing me or getting the agreement from me. But Attorney Juanita insisted that they did nothing wrong in her last email. My complaint is that the attorney Juanita quit to be my attorney after billing me $4102.55($2907.8 has been paid) and did not make any progress on our UD case. Also she did something without noticing me or getting my approval which has messed up our plan and also charged me for what she did wrong for a couple of hundred dollars and insisted that she did nothing wrong. She also double charged me by sending email also VM for the same things, or charged more items and could not supply enough evidence for what they charged.

I hired Juanita when my property manager invalidated the 60 day notice given to the tenants by extending the move out date without a signed agreement. I called two other attorneys who not only insulted me but scared me to believe I would have to pay the tenants to move out. When I called Juanita, she... was calm, took the time to confirm my property was AB 1482 exempt, and provided me with a recommended course of action for a timely move out by the tenants without having to pay the tenants. Juanita always responded promptly to my many questions. I am thankful Juanita took on my case as there are not many attorneys who would represent landlords.