Kenneth Herbert Carlson

Brittany confidently guided me through what was a daunting and nerve-racking legal process. Her knowledge of the field and the psychological warfare that comes with it led me to what I consider a victory on my trial date; no scary trial and the opposing counsel accepting a settlement offer that I cou...ld live with . This is because she instructed me on how to be adequately prepared for all scenarios so that once I got in the courtroom, I could feel good about my defense. She will encourage you to reasonably stand your ground/advocate for yourself /tell your story. If you are representing yourself, opposing counsel will likely try to intimidate and bully you. Brittany will remind you not to fall for it . She made herself available to me on my trial date despite her busy schedule so that I could run anything by her during the process. If you need legal guidance, I would recommend Brittany. She will mold you to come out of this process stronger than you came in.

The support of this team has been a bitter disappointment, apart from Julie's helpful responsiveness. Every appointment was late or no-show, and there's still no evidence the simple letter I paid for was actually delivered five (FIVE!) weeks after my initial consultation. It is difficult enough to ha...ve tenant/move-out issues without adding legal support challenges on top of it.

Ken and his partners helped me protect my rights that I thought I would have lost to my landlord. Tenant-landlord issues often arise suddenly, cause emergencies, and leave us in panic without many choices. Therefore I was very lucky that his team stepped in immediately and offered me prompt evaluatio...n and advice. They handled the communication with my landlord nicely. With his help I navigated through very complex case situations and fully recovered my loss. I never thought that was possible. Really appreciate his help and I highly recommend him.

Ken prefaces by saying, it’s going to look like you’re losing, but our goal here isn’t to have our motions granted, rather we’re playing the system. That system, is a time game. Most of the folks fighting the evictions are exploiting loopholes from the restrictions on evictions and so in essence,... as long as you follow their little roadmap to finality, you milk another 6 months out of your current situation. Where you run into trouble is if you countersue, or file a complaint regarding habitability. As others have mentioned, Ken is competent although incredibly egotistical and lacks any integrity whatsoever. He’s entirely driven monetarily and will fail to communicate unless there’s a pressing reason AND he’s been pre-paid. It’s a crapshoot with regard to who you’ll end up with after Ken performs the consult. We’ve had the misfortune of dealing with Mike Hanna. Not only will you spend thousands on an eviction, but thousands more on a counterclaim suit, you’ll consistently miss deadlines and hearings, be instructed to refuse seemingly reasonable offers to settle and end up significantly worse through it all. Your motions and documents are rife with misspellings, misinformation and glaring inaccuracies—you’ll spend ages editing and revising elementary mistakes. After a year of enduring this, and at hearing how desperate we were for him to just perform, Mike suggested we file bankruptcy as a final last laugh to the landlord. So we paid nearly ten thousand dollars between multiple cases that went no where and weren’t settled, and as the final laugh we can ruin our financial situation and credit for the next five years? We’ve been garnished and will likely have no choice but to do so at this point. I imagine that in cases where landlords are in a weaker position and settle, clients end up happy campers. In cases where the landlords lawyerup and don’t back down folks really get the wrong end of the stick. I would never recommend this route to anyone after going through what we have, and I suggest you learn from our mistakes. These guys are horrendous and Ken (or Mike) no longer represent actual clients in proceedings (you’ll do all the work pro per) because they ran into some legal trouble themselves and came close to not being able practice law anymore. I suggest you do some research before making a decision. All of these folks come with baggage and a unique legal history to include run-ins with the law (on the opposite side of the scope they’re representing), bizarre complaints confirmed by their governing bodies and quirks that can only be defined by their varying levels of veiled criminality. No matter how desperate you are, these jackwagons are not the choice.

Attorney, Monique Harris at Cal Tenant Law made a very stressful situation with our landlord bearable. After enduring years of harassment from our landlord over habitability issues at our rental, we finally found a true professional, caring advocate! Ms. Harris answered all our questions, kept us up-...to-date on our case, even checked in just to see how we were doing. In the end she was able to help us reach a favorable outcome, all within a few months! Even the free legal information is helpful in knowing your rights as a tenant. I highly recommend the services at Cal Tenant Law.