Ernest Y Chen

Called in to get a consult on a business dispute, and having already contacted several attorneys, I was expecting the same pitch...to make an appointment and go there and get very little information for a lot of money. Instead, even though the attorney was in the middle of something, he set aside tim...e to take my call and answered every question that I had without charging a penny. It really put me at ease. I got more info during that half hour than the prior week visiting a dozen other lawyers. He made some good suggestions which I tried and helped a lot, so I was able to get it taken care of without spending anything. I still hired him anyway for a different problem later, but it's because I knew this was someone I could trust to get the job done. End result was perfect in both.

I found Ernest from Yelp since I see many consistent good reviews about him. I took the courage to give it a shot and call him in addition to another 2 lawyers to help me with a eviction case recently. I had a very bad experience with another greedy lawyer in Sacramento regarding tenant issues. S...o I am very hesitant to seek help from another one. Ernest, however, is not the cheapest attorney of the three but he gave me the most thorough and informative advice even before he took on my case over the phone. He clearly was able to think from my situation. In past two months, despite my small case of eviction, he has been very patient and responsive to my so many questions. His advice is very succinct, accurate and informative. He truly lives up to his promise to help me overcome the problem. I feel that he genuinely thought from my perspectives and best interest . I have been very well informed by him throughout the whole process what my options are. He would not take advantage of my vulnerable situation and my determination to evict the bad tenant by talking me into more expensive options. He is truly a very good lawyer who really wants to help. Given the amount of time he spent on my small case, his fee is definitely reasonable and i felt very well informed from the get go. Must recommend him to many other miserable landlords in Sacramento.

Had a problem with a lawsuit. Most lawyers don't take cases halfway though, but they did. Looked around on the Internet and found this law office. The main lawyer Chen there seems pretty busy and has cases in court all the time (I guess so if everyone is trying to hire him) but still got back to m...e each time and seems pretty smart. I like that he told me about different strategies to see if any of them would help me before I signed up, while other places just kind of kept to themselves so I didn't know what they could do for me. Staff are pretty helpful and really really nice folks. Their prices were a lot less than other lawyers and did not charge any of the nickel and dime stuff like making copies or paperclips like the other place that I used. Really good experience considering I was having legal troubles, but I guess that's what lawyers are for. Will definitely say they are in my top referral.

Thru thick and thin, he's there. That's what I got to say about Attorney Chen. Even though there's other people that work at his law office, you definitely want to ask for him by name if you got a problem. I was being sued and it was pure harassment. Could not find a lawyer to take the case on sh...ort notice, and get this...other lawyers said they would review my stuff but would charge me for it without even knowing if they would take my case. Geez, that's messed up. I'm not made of money or TIME! I called some other lawyers first, who basically told me to settle it fast without even knowing anything about my situation, and they told me no advice at all. Then I found attorney Chen online and then met to talk for a hour and after looking at my stuff for free, he said that he would take the case and try to get it dismissed. He was kind of busy but knew I had a deadline and filed a countersuit ASAP. Then he told me he called em up and told their snake...oops I mean lawyer, that he would take em through court for years. Well that got em all twitchy. In a month, they dropped the lawsuit. Best part? His office charged me for the basically the same price to get rid of the whole lawsuit as what another lawyer wanted to chage me to just look at my documents! I never liked lawyers. But I like this one. I told my whole family about this law office. Will definitely see him for anything else in the future. Way to go. I give him A+++

We had a child custody dispute since last year in 2009. I didn't have any money but really needed help. My first two lawyers gave up when I ran out of money and they didn't do anything for me. They just had an appointment after another appointment until my money was gone. Then I went looking for ...another lawyer and 5 lawyers turned me down. They all just wanted money up front, and a couple of them gave me like 10 minutes to talk. Attorney Ernest Chen was the only person who spent probably 2 hours talking with me at no charge. He looked at my documents and even called me again a day later to give me his opinion and tole me how to do it even if I did not hire him. The whole time, he never asked me if I had money to pay. I felt blessed that money wasn't the first thing on his mind. Even when I was there and the phone rang a bunch of times with clients asking for him, I heard the receptionist say that he was busy in a meeting. I was happy that I was the first priority. At the end, I didn't have money to pay for a lawyer. We worked out something so that if I ever got a job then I would try to do what I could on the bill, but then that money at his office would just go toward helping out another client down the road. Basically our whole community is just taking care of one another! Even so, he gave me a really good rate, and worked on my case for nearly a year dealing with my husband's nasty attorney, and he didn't even collect a penny he whole time. He was great! He didn't take any bs from my ex-husband's lawyer and we worked out a custody settlement that two other lawyers weren't able to do for me in the past. If you really need someone to take care of you, then this is the guy. His law office does a lot of help for the community, and I'm glad someone referred me to him. I am now telling anyone I know, that folks at the Law Offices of Chen & Lee are the ones you want to represent you.