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The Evil Esquire Bar Association is seeking public comment regarding the misadventures of California attorney Cameron James Edwards [#102103], formerly of Alliance Law Center in San Diego, California, prior to accepting nominations for his induction into the EEBA.
Cameron’s addition to our watch list was precipitated by his resignation from the State Bar of California on September 25, 2009 “with charges pending.” The Cal Bar has not released the details of their “pending” charges. Incredibly, the imperious fops who run the State Bar of California have a policy of readmitting attorneys who’ve resigned. Therefore, it is important that any harm Cameron caused as a result of his practicing law on California’s citizens be fully documented to enable any injured parties, to oppose any attempt by him to become readmitted. If you have information, please comment on this post or email complaints made to the California Bar to victims @ evilesq.com.
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For decades, California’s lawyers have been given too much latitude by the State Bar to screw consumers of legal services. Radical left wing “progressives” dominate the Bar’s policy formulation and have sucessfully moved it away from its charter as an attorney regulatory body into a political instrument. They fork over tens of millions in political donations to the likes of Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, SENATOR Barbara Boxer a/k/a Ma’am and too many state assembly politicos to count. In return they enact or fail to enact legislation to protect California bar members’ franchise to screw consumers. In Jerry Brown’s case he simply refuses to investigate allegations of attorney criminal acts– until the media picks up on a case.
Empty headed, former State Bar Court Judge JoAnne Earls Robbins who criticizes California bar prosecutors as “unreasonably strict” and advocates against permanent disbarment as well as numerous other California attorneys who’ve successfully lobbied against allowing victims statements to be heard and considered by the State Bar Court when dispensing discipline are the ground troops in this undeclared war against liberty, justice and the property rights of Californians. It’s Rome all over again!
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When I lost my job, we hired Alliance Law Center hoping to help us to save our house to make affordable by doing load modification. We had a hard time talking to anybody from this company. When we received a sale date on our house I’ve called and email Cameron Edwards (attorney) numerous time to see where we at and request to push the sale date out. Cameron just ignored us untill we couldn’t reach him anymore. 3 days prior to the sale date, Cameron emailed with document attachment stated that Alliance Law Center is in insolvency. Now we are in jeopardy. How can this people live like this. My friend hired Cameron Edwards and lost her home because he just ran with her money. I found out from this sitehttp://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/malpractise-c214334.html" rel="nofollow"> http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/malpractise-c214334.html that Cameron Edwards is a scam.
My boyfriend and I hired Cameron when he worked for Liberty Lawyers as a defense attorney. I don’t know anything about him scamming anyone, because he was a WONDERFUL defense attorney. He always was there for phone calls, even in emergencies, Cameron was there. He was a great attorney then, and gave great results, as a defense attorney. Like i said, he was our defense attorney, maybe he just wasn’t cut out to do Loan Mod’s or bankruptcies!?
Check these sites and see how many people Cameron Edward’s victimized, including myself. My friend lost her home because of his malpracticed. These people have the same experienced. Once Cameron Edwards got the money, he’s nowhere to find. He never returned calls and email.
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/loan-mod-fraud-c256174.html
http://www.ripoffreport.com/Real-Estate-Services/Alliance-Law-Center/alliance-law-center-san-diego-398be.htm
Just google his and you find find people complained about his scam/fraud.
Better yet check the State Bar Of California, he resigned with charges.
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=222549
Cameron, Is and Always will be a Wonderful Attorney. It’s people who use people to scam other’s that took advantage of this WONDERFUL HUMAN.
I wish him all the best for him and his family. And if he would ever need anyone to testify as to who the real owner’s where. I’d be more than happy.
Again, check the posted sites and you will find out that we have all the same experienced. HE NEVER RETURNED CALLS and emails. I don’t think it’s the other people that told him to ignore his clients.
Edwards “resigned” yesterday over “misconduct related to loan modification activities.” His resignation of course means he’ll be able to petition the bar for reinstatement in the future.
Cameron is a good attorney. So were the other that were there on staff. Yes some of them were just sworn in but the failure of the business was not their doing. If Cameron is guilty of anything, its that he listened to Zach Taylor and James Nave. Those were the guys running everything. They were the ones ordering the attorneys around and they were the ones firing the attorneys so that is why people never got calls back. Zach contstantly changed things that all the people that were suppose to be processing and negotiating were never sure what the protocol was. Zach and James made it a mess by firing their staff and Cameron was unable to stop them because they controlled the finances. It pisses me off to see Cameron take the hit for something that Taylor and Nave created and walked away from. They are the reason people lost their homes and or money. The truth will eventually surface.
check out the news clip and read the article.….The media even has dug up enough dirt on who is really responsible. Like I said, Cameron is guilty of believing all the lies from Taylor and Nave.…those guys are out there still running other little shady business and have conned others into believing them. Zach was audacious enough to open up another company using James Imperiale as his head attorney, who Imperiale did turn his back on Edwards and for greedy reasons tried to act as if the ALC failure was Edwards fault. As far as Im concerned, James Imperiale is no better than Zach…Imperiale knew what had gone on, but Zach treated Imperiale like he cared and Imperiale bought it. According to this news clip though, something happened their which was not a supprise.
http://www.10news.com/investigations/21184109/detail.html
Cameron Edwards knew very well that he was selling his bar card working for apollo, I mean alliance, I’m sorry keypoint, wait what is it now? Those very words were spoken from his mouth to my ears. I think everyone wanted to make money and they were too young and inexperienced to do business the right way. Cameron always worked hard, strove for and achieved modifications in conjunction with his staff. He was, in all ways, a very nice and caring man. However, Cameron always knew, or by the reasonable man test, should have known, that shortcuts were being taken that undercut the firm financially, integrally and even legally. Back-room deals and straight embezzlement, left Cameron with nothing to continue working on the cases with. And I assure you, the cases were worked prior to that point. The banks stonewall loan modification companies and law firms, “losing” communication records and faxes on a constant basis. They are lying cheating scumbags, but that’s for another forum.
So, he knew his partners were crooks to some extent, but still trusted that he was capable of achieving the modifications in his charge. That is until everyone ditched him to work on new businesses. By “ditched”, you should read, took all of the talented employees from every department while raiding any money and equipment to start a new law firm with Cameron’s old underling. Does that make him Satan? No, not really. It makes him not deserving to be a lawyer, if he can’t figure out not to do business with the afore-mentioned.
Good attorney? This clown took $2800 of my girlfriends money. Now her house is in a short sale. For months she was led to believe they were working on her file. A “forensic analysis” and “negotiations” with the lender. When Alliance law center closed their doors, we contacted (or attempted to contact them) in order to pick up her file. When we did pick it up there was no work product in it and financial information from other clients. I asked him why the money wasn’t put into a client trust account. He stood there and looked at me with a stupid-I-don’t-know-why-sorry-we-can’t-help-you-look. This guy should be in prison. F**king crook.
Sorry…I don’t buy the “we were stonewalled” BS…you’re an attorney..do what attorney’s do. File a suit once in a while. A**hole.
I understand everyone’s anger about the situation. I thought that my response was fair in it’s estimation of the liability of Cameron Edwards. He should have known better than to do business with namely Zach Taylor, James Nave, Justin Sampas and Jason Bernabei. He shouldn’t be a lawyer considering he couldn’t figure out that he was being bamboozled.
I don’t think “Spooky” understands the loan modification business. You can’t just file suit against lenders willy nilly for every client you have. IF you can prove fraud, you may be able to file suit, but that is extremely hard to prove. You must remember that during my entire time negotiating loan modifications, there was no legal guidelines or compulsion for a lender to modify a loan (in absence of fraud). In fact, even now, most lenders in most instances are not legally required to modify any loans. So the true nature of the business is to call, hound and threaten the banks until they give. As for you not believing my stonewalling argument, go ahead and try to get a modification on your own. In nearly every instance you will be forwarded to a million different people across the country. You will be lucky to find one person who will help you. When you do find that person, be sure to get their name. In many instances you will never get that same individual on the line again. They will ask for paperwork from you, tell you they need 48 hours to even tell you if they received the fax. 48 hours later, “no, we didn’t get it”. Send it again, and 48 hours later they may have it. At this point, you will be told to wait 4–12 weeks to speak to a negotiator about the file. Our records indicated that 90% of our files that were “holding” for a negotiator on the lender’s end, were “lost” by the bank by the time we were supposed to speak to a negotiator and we were told to start again from the beginning. If that isn’t stonewalling, I don’t know what is. If you think we could just sue the lender, I ask for what? Once again, these lenders aren’t legally required to do anything. I understand everyone here being upset with Cameron and loan modification companies. I would like for everyone to ALSO get more upset about the laws that allow lenders to screw everyone, pocket the bailout money and screw you once more while letting others take the blame. GENIUS
PS Cameron and cohorts screwed all of their clients by pretending it would be easy to get you a modification. They are very guilty of that. As for not working on files, I worked as a negotiator 12–14 hours a day 6 days a week for a year. The owners may be crooks, but the non-lawyer employees such as myself worked tirelessly on behalf of our clients.
onemoreex, I don’t think whether or not I understand the mortgage modification industry is relevant at all. What is relevant is that Cameron Edwards, acting in his capacity as an attorney, had paraprofessionals such as yourself, do work that they may not be qualified to do. The negotiations should have been done by an attorney, which is what we we’re led to believe was happening. 2. Fees were advanced and used, instead of being put into a trust account. 3. You write that you worked on files, but my girlfriends file has no records other than what she provided. You have a laundry list of what the mortgage company does. You’re right, the mortgage company doesn’t have an obligation to respond. So send a demand letter, then file a complaint in court. the idea here is to compel the other side to act. You say for what? Well, how about all that BS that ALC sold us on like the “we review the file for RESPA violations. a forensic analysis of your loan docs.’ That’s what Cameron Edwards should of done, that’s what he didn’t do. And then there is the million dollar question. Where is our MONEY?
I was very interested to see what you wrote about Cameron, and a lot about this Zack Taylor and associates. I don’t see any recent posts.
Still if this is being followed, you may be interested to learn what I paid $680 to an investigator to find out.
Taylor’s full name is Zachary Ellis Taylor and he has a two felony record in the State of California. drug possesion and for shooting a resturant clerk was what the investigator said. All I got was California case numbers but I have requested more info from the state.
The others appear clean at first glance. Maybe our little lawyer should have done some research before aligning himself a felon.
Either way, I don’t know if anyone is still paying attention to this so I’ll post what I learn if anyone shows interest.
Anon…I am very interested.
I am also interested in what you find out. We got taken for $4800 same story as everyone has already stated. Does anyone know if there is going to be action taken against Taylor. Sounds like a class action is overdue.
Im very interested.