Steven David Silverstein

I am a landlord. Unfortunately I allowed my tenants to move in to my rental property without their move in deposit paid in full. My tenants than proceeded to reside at my property and never paid rents nor the remainder of their deposits owed. This carried one for 3 months. After I paid Mr Silvers...tein’s office the correct fees in full ... I never heard from him again nor did he ever returned my phone calls or emails. I was in the dark as to what his gameplan was or is. Day of court date he showed up an hour late and told me he is having a colleague of his stand in for him. I TOLD HIM UNACCEPTABLE. ON MY COURT DATE... I REALIZED MR SILVERSTEIN NEVER EVEN TEVIEWED THE FILINGS OR THE CASE THEREFORE MY CASE FILED (by Silverstein) WAS INVALID. WHAT KIND OF ATTORNEY IS HE REALLY? AND NOW HE WILL NOT REFILE HIS MISTAKE AND BLAMES ME FOR DISMISSAL. I’m not the attorney nor do I have a law degree and this is why I hired an attorney. So that someone with knowledge of the law as well as knowledge of what is to be filed and NOT FILED. Mr Silverstein failed me in every possible way and has refused to re-file nor accept his mistakes in my case. Even the judge stated that my case was dismissed due to my filing. I will be filing a complaint against Mr Silverstein. He should jot hold a bar license.

Attorney Silverstein was requested to do two money judgments on evictions he had done prior. After more than 8 months with no feedback and several dozen calls to the office and not a single returned call we pulled the files and gave them to another attorney. The files returned were incomplete and sh...owed that no work had been done on finding the tenants. He could have just said he wasn't going to do the cases up front so we would not lose the time in tracking the tenants.

Attorney Silverstein represented us in court in a UD case, failing to protect our interest in the security deposit we held that could be applied to past due rent. We were then successfully sued by the tenants later for the balance of the security deposit we withheld to cover our repair expenses. La...zy, arrogant and incompetent is the best way I can describe Silverstein. So outrageous was his conduct I filed a complaint with the State Bar of California (case # 10-27503).