Mengqiu Zhang

You should expect to waste time and money if you hire her. She was so busy and kept postponed my case even just some simple paper works. She even used an amateur paralegal to take care of my case and charged me two dollars per hour. My case ended up with mess. and returned by court. After all these,... she blamed everything on me.

I don't know how I should express my appreciation to Melinda, and the only thing I can say is to tell all of you she is 100% strongly recommended！！No doubt She is best of the best attorney in Bay Area！！My husband and I have been stayed out of the US for years and he filed divorce case against me whic...h didn't meet the residence requirement at all and forced me to go back US alone with kids to response the case at very high cost during pandemic.I felt helpness and desperated and my friend who had hired Melinda before said she would be the only one can help me. I was afraid to facing the court and to pay expensive lawyer charge,but Melinda encouraged me just need to trust her and she would fight for me with all her effort. She is not only a legal professional but also a very caring partner just like psychotherapist giving me power. She is very good at using differnt legal stratagies and legal codes to fight against the opponent, even on very complicated cases like mine. Unlike some attorneies who charge a lot counted every single second or every email response to client even just saying "yes", she knew my finical hardship, she always want to save me less lawyer cost but provided even way more legal service and care than others. She explained to me in Chinese via call or text after every time she sent me email in English, and that is double workload! Thanks to Melinda, I get what I want. And she is the one save my life. I will definitely work with her and seek legal aid again in the future!!!!

Melinda is the BEST EVER family law lawyer I have ever worked with. She is an EXTREMELY caring person when my ex-husband did his best to make my life very difficult. She is also VERY PATIENT while discussing my case and explaining to me all the possible outcomes I might get from the family law perspe...ctive. She is the only person I've met who is willing to discuss the case after work-hours ( like after 9 pm!) and helped me prepare for the trial until 3 A.M.!!! She is also very detail-oriented in all perspectives. During the trial, she made the other party's jaw drop several times because she is so well prepared and she knows what she is doing. Of course, we won the case!!!! Melinda is not only an outstanding lawyer, also an excellent friend who truly wants to help you to go through all the emotions that might happen during the divorce. No one really wants to go through a messy divorce, but if you have to go through this, Melinda will be your ONLY choice!!! SHE IS THE BEST AND NO WORDS CAN EXPLAIN HOW GREAT SHE IS!! I see the nasty comments posted here to defame Melinda, I feel I need to say something for the truth. I simply cannot believe Melinda is like what was described in the negative comments. The person said that Melinda called her after 10pm, she should be appreciative that Melinda was still working, and working on his or her case when most people are already resting from work. I guess some people are just super negative and suspicious by their own nature, and hateful towards human as a whole.

I chose her because I speak Mandarin and I thought it will help case communication but it ends as a nightmare. She was very mean to me and said it's court training for you but she was very nice to opposite side. No matter what I requested her to say or to do in the court, she rarely did it but no mat...ter what other party asked, she mostly said Yes. She has no idea about tech company profit sharing and you need to spend your time and money teaching her. She called me to discuss the case in the night, even 10pm. She is terribly incompetent in the court and made my first hearing totally a mess. I'm not even sure if she knows family law. I changed her immediately after that and my case suddenly is totally different. If you don't make your case worst, find another one.

I have worked with two other lawyers in the past, and this is the worst experience yet... or maybe I have just been very lucky in the past. Melinda is very rude, disorganized, and I was faced with lots of unexpected charges not previously mentioned or discussed, although total chargers for all servi...ces were discussed in the beginning. First it was "oh by the way I forgot to tell you, you have to pay fedex costs to send documents" (all my previous lawyers covered that cost), then she took a month (!!!) to get back to my inquiry about documents that needed to be submitted, and when she finally replied she threatened to charge me for overnight shipping, because she did not have time and supposedly I didn't get back to her soon enough. The worst of it all was when my mother has called inquiring about our case (they have met before on my behalf), Melinda tactlessly yelled at her, stating she was not her client and that she does not have time to talk to her. This was a real blow to me, because my mom is 10 years her senior, and nobody likes their family members mistreated like that. Finally when everything was said and done, it was "oh by the way you owe us $500 more." If there are extra charges, or even the possibility of them, they need to be discussed when all chargers are discussed, at the very beginning. I understand there could be unforeseeable costs, but these costs were completely predictable. She did get the job done, but I wonder if any lawyer would have been able to do that, as it was a pretty straightforward case, just a matter of proper format and the right paperwork. Overall a very unpleasant experience, to say the least.