Brent L Valdez

Cps put together a case of complete lies and this guy took it and ran with it. Brent Valdez is absolutely terrible unprofessional, and not good at communicating. If you get him as a public defender in your cps case hire an attorney ! Or he will make it harder for you to get your child back. He make...s you look worse infront of the judge. He goes against you in court. Aggravates you talking in private before seeing the judge. He also talks to other attorneys about you behind your back. I hired Micahel J Lacilento for my case. Look into him for help.

Mr.valdez is incompetent and unprofessional he did nothing to stop Riverside county child protective services from throwing me out of my home and taking me away from my children one in which was not even 2 months old I addressed the fact they came to my home without a warrant and without even fillin...g the petition in court yet made false statements made by the worker in the petition filed and falsified test results from a laboratory that did not exist and and should have had Riverside community hospital as the letter head that they were not allowing me and my children visitation or providing me with reunification services I was forced to be homeless in the streets because he wouldn't address my concerns with the court he instead treated me as if i was guilty or with disregard even tried to tell me i had only came to one hearing when i had went to everyone of them even when i had to sit outside in my car the whole day mr.valdez asked if i wanted to testify i told him yes the day i was suppose to testify he said are you sure i told him yes then he told me oh i told them no and whet with what he thought was best well now they terminated services and gave my children to my ex i tried to fire him and the jude judge told me no

Brent Valdez only offered the absolute WORST legal representation possible. This "Lawyer" did absolutely nothing for me in my case, and could not even offer proper advice concerning what to do next in the case. He actually damaged my case, and I walked away with more problems because of him. After I... fumbled through the legal process, with absolutely no guidance from Mr. Valdez, or follow up from him after court hearings - he turns around and tells me after the case closed, that "you made terrible legal decisions"!!! Brent Valdez is combative, and argumentative with his clients. He doesn't help them to understand what is going on in their case, because he himself has no clue. When he fails terribly - he will blame you for "your bad legal decisions". **Follow up was non-existent **The only communication that I received from Brent Valdez during the time that he represented me, was a 5 minute talk - minutes before going into court. **Communication skills were terrible (combative, indecisive, unclear about laws, misguiding, he does not confirm what you are saying, he takes what you say and makes false interpretations - he screwed me because he did not bother to confirm what I said to him.) During court Brent Valdez stutter stepped at every turn when he spoke to the judge. There was no assurance that he felt comfortable, and every other word is "Uhm". In closing - DO NOT TRUST THIS LAWYER...ever. Ultimately, I will be forced to hire another attorney to appeal the decision of the judge in this case, all because Mr. Valdez failed to properly communicate.