Tina Marie Muzer Locklear

Tina Locklear represented me in a wrongful termination case. Tina is an amazing lawyer that was very attentive to my every question. She listened to me explain my situation and then gave me my options. I was given two options on how to pay. I was also given a 10% prompt pay discount when paying my bi...ll, which is a great savings. Tina laid out, step by step, how the case would most likely be played out. She included a time frame for each step of the case and the cost associated with each step. She thoroughly explained the process to me and she answered every single one of my questions in a timely manner. I am extremely happy with the settlement that I was awarded and it is due to the hard work of Tina Locklear and her staff. I highly recommend her.

I hired Tina Locklear and her law firm for a simple wrongful termination and whistle blower case and it costed me over $110,000. She initially told me that she would do contingency and so many other cheaper ways but went on to charge me over $110,000 and I ended up with only headaches and loss of inc...ome from my next job due to her neglect and incompetence. It is the regret of my life to have hired her and I am writing just a portion of my terrible experience with her so that it be used as a warning to everyone else to stay away from this person and her law firm. I don't wish her on anyone even my enemies. Simply put she ruined my life. I filed several claims with the state bar of California against her and the other attorneys that work at her law firm. First and foremost she offered me (in writing) that she would give me 15% discount for paying her on time. I paid every bill no matter how massive it was, and I paid them right away. She then told me that she "forgot" to take the 15% discount and when I asked her to give me that money back, she went on to say that she actually made a mistake and she never offers 15% discount... This is the type of person this lawyer is. She billed and took money from my credit card for things that she never did and it was obvious that she never did those work because at the mediation of the case, she and her team were utterly useless and me and my husband had to literally sit there and google stuff up!! While we paid her over $110,000 for our case. Our experience with her was that she never worked toward our interest, she was only interested in making money no matter how she made it. She over billed us and underdelivered. THE WORSE part was that the opposing side that we were suing, filed a complaint against me and they had informed attorney Tina about this yet she FIALED to tell us that. She never ever told us that the other side filed a major complaint against me to a professional licensing board and went on to settle our case with them without telling me this crucial information. Well several months later, I found out and confronted her but she declined to do anything about it. Another unethical thing she did was to take money out of our trust account knowing that I have a dispute with her and that I did not agree with the charges she billed but nonetheless she took money without my authorization and said so in an email. All of this is just a tiny example of what a terrible attorney this law firm is. I strongly urge everyone to look elsewhere when hiring an attorney. I filed several claims against her and her team with the State Bar of California and I will follow up with them to make sure that this attorney is held accountable for her unethical and incompetent practices.

After doing online searches of Orange County attorneys who focus on this area of law and reading about them, I interviewed three regarding our construction problem. It was very clear that Tina was by far the most knowledgeable. Tina explained to us how strong our case was and why, explained all our o...ptions, and at our request settled the case so we could quickly put this behind us and move on. We had an extremely difficult defendant, yet she managed to negotiate a settlement that we are happy with, which we hadn't thought anyone could do. She and her staff are also all very nice and were quick to return our emails and calls. We highly recommend her.