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Dayna Christine Chillas

3.7
Rating: 6.7

Licensed for 30 years

Chapter 7 bankruptcy Lawyer at San Diego, CA
Practice Areas: Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Construction & Development ... +2 more

4565 Ruffin Road, San Diego, CA

About Dayna

Practice Areas

5

Practice Areas

Chapter 7 Bankruptcy 50%

Been helping individuals with Chapter 7 bankruptcy for the past year.

13 years | 200 cases

50%
Chapter 13 Bankruptcy 20%

Been practicing doing individual and business bankruptcy for the last year.

13 years | 50 cases

20%
Construction and Development 10%

Since 1996 have practiced in construction defect litigation, first subcontractors and insurance defense then developers. Was a associate and then a Partner at three firm in San Diego handling on average 50 multimillion dollar cases at one time. Including arbitration, mediation and trials.

30 years | 5,000 cases

10%
Divorce and Separation 10%

Divorce with property issues not child custody cases.

22 years | 50 cases

10%
General Practice 10%

General civil litigation, will and trusts, debt settlement, criminal law, contract disputes, personal injury.

30 years | 6,000 cases

10%

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Licenses

Licensed in California for 30 years

State: California

Acquired: 1996

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Location

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4565 Ruffin Road, San Diego, CA, 92103

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3.7 /5.0

3 Client Reviews

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Posted by Karen | August 18, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Bankruptcy & Debt

Hired for BK and SOJ

I hired Dayna to handle my BK case and then a Settlement Agreement to obtain a Satisfaction of Judgement to have a lien removed from my property. I was referred to her by my brother. My husband and I had listed out house for sale but could not do so until the release of the lien. This BK was to ...be a Bare Bones filing and was supposed to take 2 to 3 weeks at the most. In the 6th week, I received an offer to settle my debt and have the lien removed. I decided, due to the length of time wasted already, to settle with the offer and dismiss the BK. I informed Dayna, and asked her to dismiss the BK. She would only wait until the Judge dismissed it which took yet additional time. I hired her again to complete the settlement with my creditor and negotiate a lower pay off. This should have taken 1 week tops. After 3 weeks, I had to pay the full amount requested, I had to have the Satisfaction of Judgement delivered to me, and I had to file it at the county recorders office myself. My complaint is that during the course of my BK, I was not allowed to contact her by phone per her instructions through my brother. She never met with me, never gave me any advice, and we never met. Throughout this BK, after many e-mails by me to Dayna instructing her to cease communicating and disclosing my case to my brother but, she continued to involve and tell my brother my business. I believe that is completely against my attorney-client privilege and against the law. She never completed my BK and never offered to refund any monies that I had paid her for. Likewise I hired her for the Settlement Agreement, separate from the BK case, and she continued to tell my brother everything about this case also. And like the BK case, she didn't negotiate a lower price, was gone from her office after instructing my creditor to deliver it to her overnight, I had to go to file the document myself at the county recorders office. and pay an additional fee to file it. Dayna was paid in cash by me and did not finish either case! I had to finish them, and pay an additional fee which was included in the cash price I gave her. She never contacted me after instructing me, by e-mail, to go and record the SOJ myself. She never offered to refund any of my money for not doing her job on this case as well as the BK case mentioned above. Her lack of integrity by breeching my attorney-client relationship is unacceptable to me and that is why I am writing this review. I want to warn people out there not to trust in her with your personal information and not to trust her to finish the job she is hired for. Also unacceptable to me is the fact that Dayna would not communicate with me by phone and did not counsel me in any way throughout my entire BK case! A lot of time was waisted in both cases and I lost 2 buyers for my house during this time. I'm completely unhappy with Dayna's attitude and the service I received from her!

Posted by Patricia | October 09, 2013 | Bankruptcy & Debt

"ECELLENT ATTORNEY /GREAT SERVICE"

I had gone with alot of other attorneys that didnt have that quality or dedication. That was before I found Ms. Dayna Chillas, She helped me with my banckruptcey. She was such a great help. Ms.Dayna explained to me everything and every question i asked was answerd. I also recomended my relative and... she also helped her with the same quality i recieved . she has a reasonble price and everybody at the firm they have an excelent service.

Posted by David | September 20, 2012 | Personal Injury

Outstanding Attorney

The case that I'm using Ms. Chillas for has not reached conclusion yet. She has been extremely helpful in providing guidance in how to proceed in this civil law suit. She has done far more than I would have expected any attorney to do including helping me find competent medical specialists and appr...opriate support for my daily living needs which I haven't been able to handle since a horrible incident where I was injured though no fault of my own. She has found appropriate housing for me close to the specialists that have evaluated my injuries and who are providing therapy for me now. She has arranged a number of depositions in the case and is prepared to go to trial if the defendant in the case doesn't make a reasonable settlement offer within a reasonable time period. We're in virtually daily contact by e-mail and phone. She keeps me informed of all conversations with my doctors, the defendant’s attorneys and others involved in the case. When I wasn't able to get food and medication, she arranged for food to be delivered to me and for doctors prescriptions and pharmacy deliveries of needed medication. She has informed me as to case law for the situation I'm in and what I can reasonably expect to transpire. She has developed a time line for the case and keeps me informed as to where we stand on the time line. She has arranged care givers for me as needed but has not run up expenses that aren't necessary. She regularly checks on me to make sure I have whatever assistance is required. She makes all doctor appointments for me and arranges transportation to the doctors as necessary. Her encouragement has helped tremendously as I've gone through traumatic challenges since the incident occurred.

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Experience

Rating:  6.7 (Good)

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Univ of San Diego SOL

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Univ of California Santa Cruz

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