Valerie Ross

Valerie Ross, would never call me back until the day before a court hearing or the day before evidence was to be submitted to the court on my behalf. I learned that Valerie Ross also missed the deadline to submit my evidence of my behalf and other answers and pleading on time on my CPS case. Valeri...e Ross, botched up my case and caused me to lose custody of my children in August 2015. Valerie Ross failed to communicate with me in a timely manner and her lack of her profession has caused me a great deal of stress and distress. I have been denied my right to due process and the right to a fair trial, because of Valerie Ross whom has stated to me that she submitted documentary evidence that would clearly clear me of all false allegation that CFS had filed against me, but the county counsel and the judge in August 2015 told her "NO" it’s too late to submit anything on my behalf during the contested hearing, she tried to submit documents on the day of the hearing "She laid to me". I hired Valerie Ross, as my attorney and I was not allowed to say anything while my children father and his court appointed attorney was allowed to speak out of term and other county counsel member's in the court room, while Valerie Ross, set there saying nothing on my behalf at all. I knew at this point something was wrong, but I just prayed that this was all in my mind and that I just couldn't hear or understand the legal jargon, but it wasn't and my life was over. I knew that I had submitted everything to Valerie Ross, all of my evidence I gave to her in May 2015, and after paying Valerie Ross in full, before she would even take my case for $5,000.00 in Cash. The Judge gave her until July 2015 to submit all subpoena witnesses on my behalf, and I had 5 subpoena, but only one showed up. I believed that Valerie Ross would submit documentary evidence that would clearly clear me of all false allegation that CPS had falsely filed against me, in order to take my guardianship children and place them in foster care, and even after the children begged to come home, she ruined my life. On September 2015, I fired Valerie Ross, but it was to late at this point, she appeared to be working with the CPS against me a conspiracy to convict me, so after dismissing her I was ordered to return to court in September 2015, and the Judge, did not and would not allow me to say anything, but she did say “Are you dismissing Valerie Ross, she cut me off not allowing me to state that she has misrepresented me and has been nothing but ineffective assistance of counsel on my behalf since the beginning of this trial. I encourage anyone who has had this same type of experience to report her to the State Bar of California. After reading most of Valerie Ross reviews they sound more and more like the Ineffective Counsel, I hired on such a really important and serious case. My life and my family have been destroyed because of Valerie Ross.

3 years ago I took on Vallery Ross as my divorce attorney she sounded very knowledgeable and very thorough in her job but after 3 years and many promises that where made by both by her paralegal MS Ross herself told me that I would have no problem getting my attorney fees and spousal support. Well fi...nally went to court and needless to say I was very disappointed my attorney was not well prepared she did not object to certain things that she should of said something she just set there and then when the judge asked her a question she was stumbling around trying to provide them with an answer she really was not well prepared for my case it was a simple divorce case with a few wrinkles as would be expected but I never thought I would walk away feeling the way I do about the justice system which right now is not a good opinion it's not because things did not go my way its the old saying you get what you paid and in this case I believe I lost a lot I had an attorney that was not competent in her job and that is my personal opinion I would not recommend her even though she offers you reasonable prices but at the end result they left me hanging so don't let first impressions fool you do your homework well and really think thoroughly before you allow an attorney like this to have your life in our hands you won't be happy and yes shame on me for not doing my homework and finding out that this attorney Valerie Ross does not represent you to the best of her abilities despite what they say I did not get my attorney fees back like they said I would and I receive alimony amount that wouldn't even make the car payment now is that the kind of attorney you want fighting for you I think not I hope whoever reads this we're really put some thought into what I'm saying and will do their homework cuz nobody needs to go through 3 years of back and forth when in reality ever court did their job and our attorneys follow their procedures and did her job as well this shouldn't have taken that long.

Lame, lame, lame!!! Valerie's assistant is who I met with every time. Not once did I get to meet with the actual attorney Valerie. Valerie never knew my facts correctly and she incorrectly said things in front of the Judge. She stumbled with words in court and never represented me in the proper fashi...on. I ended up paying her for services that I never truly got, which should be correct representation. She doesn't seem to give 2 cents about your case, or for you as a living breathing person. She ended up quitting due to apparent pressure from the opposing attorney, which was more than obvious. That left me hanging to find another attorney in the middle of it all, and just prior to a set court date. It was a complete waste of more than a year's worth of my time and money, only to have to start the whole process up all over again and to find an actual competent lawyer. Running into someone who had a very similar situation happen to them is what brought me to posting a review here. People need to know and need to do their own research and dig deeply. Reflecting back now, I should have thanked her for her time and walked away prior to things becoming such a convoluted mess. This woman needs to turn it in and call it a day. But you know what they say about hind-sight......

I hired Valerie Ross for my son's criminal case to try to get his bail reduced and told her specifically that we needed someone to speak up for him and let the judge know he was still in school and in the weeks that he had already been in jail he had not been given his antidepressants that he had bee...n on for 2 years. When it came time for her to speak to the judge she said nothing!! I called her later that night crying because my son called me now more depressed than ever because he didn't understand why she didn't say anything to help him and was now having suicidal thoughts, so I had called her to see what could be done to help him and her advice was to tell him he must not do that....then she said if I had more money she help me but when I told her I had no more money she needed to go because her dinner was getting cold. At the next court date she still said nothing about his age or his meds, it was a pretrial where the police officer was interviewed, her chance to question the officer as to the fact there was no evidence against my son and that he did not do the things they accused him of, I was there so I know he didn't. She asked the cop 2 questions that were pointless. She also had no driver's license so she was not able to go into the jail to interview my son to even find out what his defense was. She cost us the case and now my son is on probation for the next 2 years and has a record when the case should have been dimissed.

I contacted Valerie Ross because I heard she specialized in juvenile cases. During our over the phone consultation she sounded like she really knew her stuff. Looking back in hindsight I was really desperate and in major need of some legal representation for my loved one. She had great communicati...on, kept in touch, was always available and overall seemed like a great pick. After my family and I paid her the retainer fee she turned into a completely different individual. Her work was lack luster and amateur to say the least. She completely stopped communicating with my family and we never knew what was going on half the time. We always had to call her just to get updates on our situation and she wouldn't answer the phone half the time and when she did she was rude and vague. One of our family members whom we had hired to be represented by her was sitting in jail behind this charge and she barely made any visits or had any contact with them. We were extremely disappointed because we had paid her over $2,000 dollars and she never did a good job. In court she filed an OR motion for my family member and got completely ate up by the D.A. She was tongue tied, her defense was weak, and she was submissive and extremely passive. Of course the OR motion was denied not once, BUT TWICE by 2 different judges. She was ill prepared and disconnected from the case. She was not on her A-game. I started to feel like my family and I had been duped because we clearly couldn't see what we had paid her for because she didn't do jack or get anything accomplished. I honestly would never work with this woman ever again, I know public defenders who are way better than her and she has the audacity to charge thousands of dollars when she isn't worth 2 pennies. We'll never get the money back that we gave her in confidence but that's the risk you take when hiring a lawyer, so if I can stop someone from getting scammed and milked for their hard earned money then it was all worth it. Valerie Ross is a rip off and is more concerned with securing a retainer fee then actually representing her clients because as soon as my family paid her she stopped doing her job.