Brian Joseph Clark

Only spoke to Brian once, he said he could provide everything from start to finish. After that, he passed me off to an associate attorney. She made more mistakes than I could keep up with. Finally, she passed me off her paralegal who had to finished all the paperwork! I could never get a call back f...rom Brian or the associate attorney. Everytime I called the office, the receptionist was not very helpful, I was told that Brian was not located in that office and she had no way to transfer a call to him. The only person I could finally talk to was the paralegal. Worse experience ever! I felt like this was not a legit real estate attorney group! .

I hired Brian Clark & Associates Attorneys Real Estate Group (ARG) after a CLC referral in October 2023 to represent me at a mediation meeting to attempt to get my earnest money deposit (EMD) returned to me by a sketchy house flipper who misled me during the purchase process. In the initial consult...ation I was told that this was an easy case and that the fees would be about $3000-$4500 when in the end they spent much more time on this case than they had quoted me for and the bill was closer to $8500. I was initially assigned a young attorney in mid October 2023 but as the mediation date in early November approached she told me that she wouldn’t be able to represent me at the mediation anymore and that one of the partners at the law firm would attend instead. The law firm failed to have my mediation brief and a replacement attorney ready in time for the mediation which forced me to reschedule the mediation session after the mediator contacted me on the weekend before the mediation session letting me know that my attorney failed to give him the mediation brief by the deadline he gave us. After I followed up by email and by phone the weekend before the mediation was supposed to happen they finally assigned a new attorney to my case and he prepared the mediation brief a few days after the mediation was supposed to have occurred. When the mediation finally happened in early December 2023 the attorney failed to properly represent me by going from arguing for the entire EMD to be returned to me to pretty quickly encouraging me to settle for less than half of the EMD. He also called me by the wrong name in front of me when he was presenting to the mediator (he called me Jose instead of my name Jimmy, which honestly felt humiliating and discriminatory coming from the person who was supposed to be keeping my best interest in mind. Ultimately he was a pushover and basically stopped arguing on my behalf, instead buying a few of the counter arguments used against me by the opposing side. That same attorney called me “Jose” again when he wrote up a draft follow-up email to the mediator and claimed it was autocorrect when I questioned him about this and after I had already told him to please stop calling me by the wrong name. I later found out that the young attorney who said she couldn’t represent me anymore had actually stopped working for them even though I was never informed by the law firm about this when she stopped handling my case, and when I showed the legal brief to an attorney friend a few months ago he said he was surprised at the poor quality of legal argumentation on the part of the attorney who wrote it. ARG also tried to bill me for the so-called work that the first attorney did when she failed to meet the mediator’s deadline for the legal briefs. To their credit, ARG removed most of those fees after I disputed those charges. Ultimately, I lost most of my EMD and the little I gained back was pretty much eaten up by ARG’s legal fees. So, if you are looking for legal representation for a real-estate related matter, please look elsewhere because Brian Clark & Associates will waste your time and money.

Brian gave a hard sales pitch to get us to sign him as both an estate attorney and real estate agent. After we signed, my father’s condition worsened and we needed to take out loans to pay for his care. We called Brian to make sure our estate and legal paperwork were in order and he never called us... or had another attorney call us. Then, the doctor informed my father was dying and 6 messages and one week later — still no attorney called. In place, Brian had a real estate broker go to my father’s hospital room to get paperwork signed. The real estate broker fielded all legal questions without supervision and ultimately did all the paperwork wrong. We fired Brian and hired an estate law firm who immediately contacted my father and had his trust paperwork correctly set up with all correct notaries and witnesses within a week. After that is done, Brian Clark’s partner finally makes first contact to tell me that I cant fire Brian (even though the legal retainer says i can fire him at any time) because he’s also a real estate broker or assigned one in his office. He insists Brian will sell the house anyway and refuses to acknowledge he was fired. Snake oil salesman. Incompetent. Dishonest.

I received a referral from CLC for Brian J Clark & Associates. Brian was great in his consultation. That was the last time I heard from him. I wish I had stopped there! I was told my case would take about 4-6 hours of time to clear up. It was three weeks and still nothing had been resolved. The worst... part was that I was never kept in the loop about what was going on. I had to email or call the firm to see what the status was on my case. It would have been nice to receive some updates. I spent a pretty penny and nothing has been resolved. Proceed with caution when dealing with this firm.