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.

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.

After aquiring her services, we assumed she would attend to our questions and concerns during this trying time of legal issues. We, as well had to constantly remind her of issues pertaining to the case. Our calls to her were effortless, as we never seemed to get any answers. She seemed "flaky" at tim...es and had no idea what case or who her client was. We had to remind her! She was given a form to lower bail amount, and that was misplaced and never turned in. Cost us an additional $1500!

Obtained her day before court turn in(for a non-violent crime, that she assured us she could get an OR if there was a voluntary turn in), collected money up front 5 min. before entering the court room.. Placed into custody, and family was not informed or any information explained, except to say the d...efendent was placed into custody, and she would call us. Have had to contact her ourselves, and still she only stated that we would have to wait until the following week when he goes to court, because she hasn't had the chance to find anything out. I would like to know what we paid her for if she has not done anything!