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  1. SHAME ON YOU KAREN NAGAD ESQ

    Dear EEBA,
    Your anal­ogy to glass com­pany shoot­ers is a GREAT one!! Karen Nagad and Adrian J Adams sends demean­ing, harass­ing let­ters (that serve no purpose)to res­i­dents who in return, “fight back” to man­age­ment. As a result, the man­ager calls these evils and then AdamsKessler bills the said HOA for thou­sands and thou­sands of dollars!!!!!

    Shame on you KAREN NAGAD, ESQ: You and your “boss” Adrian J Adams can­not obstruct jus­tice in America by forc­ing those who are under­priv­iledged to “keep quiet” or “stop talk­ing about it” because you don’t like home­own­ers to know what you did to some of them. You are doing ter­ri­ble wrong which must cease imme­di­ately. This hairy, fat b*tch Karen Nagad ESQ should be in jail!!!

  2. Carlos

    You might be a bit to harsh on this women. If she did not study to become a lawyer she would per­haps still be shoplift­ing as one of the reports suggests.

    For got sake, Karen even has her own sou­venir site:
    http://www.cafepress.com/outfitter/786966

  3. Homeowner

    The State of California is fail­ing California con­sumers and home­own­ers again … Adrian J Adams, Esq., the Jessie James of the Southern California HOA land­scap­ing has found per­fect com­pli­ment to his morally chal­lenged and bla­tantly unscrupu­lous “law firm” in Karen Nagad. It has been reported else­where that this mean and sadis­tic women harasses minori­ties and under­priv­i­leged using Adrian J Adams signature.

    This group of lit­i­gants and harassers of home­own­ers move around the town and Southern California from HOA to HOA, steer up prob­lem, advo­cate TRO’s (restrain­ing orders) like snake oil salesman’s advo­cates “snake oil”, with­out scru­ples, moral or eth­i­cal bound­aries. I

    f the same thing was done by non-lawyers, the FRAUDSTERS will be in jail in no time. They do what they want when they want but not before they first intim­i­date HOA Board of Directors by treats of per­sonal lia­bil­ity, which effec­tively dis­arms the Board and keep the Board stand­ing down.

    What Adrian J Adams does with Karen Nagad’s assis­tance can best be described as flat out rack­e­teer­ing, which deserves crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion and prosecution.

    I just found this post about Karen Nagad on AVVO: http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/90017-ca-karen-nagad-115379/reviews.html

  4. Karen Nagad ESQ really does suck!!

    Karen Nagad and Adrian Adams ESQ filed a tem­po­rary restrain­ing order (TRO) against a female res­i­dent in March 2009. They accused her of post­ing fly­ers near his home and send­ing a threat­en­ing fax to Adrian’s office. During the court hear­ing, the hon­or­able Gerald Rosenberg shook his head at both of them in COMPLETE dis­be­lief that not ONE, but TWO offi­cers of the court did this WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE!! Read more about it here: http://ccvunited.blogspot.com/2009/08/security-notices-allegedly-posted-in.html
    Mr. Rosenberg had a dif­fi­cult time believ­ing that a female would post fly­ers in his neigh­bor­hood in the wee hours of the night, deep in the heart of Inglewood where Adrian Adams ESQ lives. Here is a pic­ture of his home, cour­tesy of Google : http://ccvunited.blogspot.com/2009/10/adrian-j-adams-esq-hoa-nuthouse-his.html
    We find it quite odd that he adver­tises him­self as the com­mu­nity hous­ing expert could live in such a shack in one of the rough­est neigh­bor­hoods in Los Angeles, accord­ing to the Los Angeles crime map. Karen Nagad is being trained by Adrian Adams ESQ as a terrorist!!

  5. Karen Nagad's view on "free speech". Read her view HERE!!

    In the http://www.davis-stirling.com arti­cle, Ms. Karen Nagad writes about her views on free speech: “There is no “First Amendment right” to such behav­ior and per­sons who engage in it can be ejected from meet­ings and, fol­low­ing due process, fined. If nec­es­sary, boards can seek restrain­ing orders.” Based on the above com­ment, she’s not too suc­cess­ful at obtain­ing restrain­ing orders even with fab­ri­cated evidence.

    What we find so funny is that the BULLY Karen Nagad who works for BULLY Adrian Adams ESQ writes about “other” bul­lies. Perhaps they think they are exempt from this rule since they have earned their ESQ des­ig­na­tion. That means noth­ing to us other than that their bad behav­ior will be sub­mit­ted to the EEBA. Dear EEBA: should we send Ms. Karen Nagad a quick email of what she thinks of her sub­mis­sion to the EEBA? Her par­ents must be proud of all her hard work since they escaped Israel.

  6. HOAGuru

    If what you are report­ing is true, as we strongly believe it is, you may wish to file a strong com­plaint against Karen Nagad with the California State BAR, request­ing she is expe­di­tiously rep­ri­manded for mis­lead­ing the court, fab­ri­ca­tion of evi­dence and if the BAR find it appro­pri­ate Karen Nagad should be dis­barred: along with the “gang leader” Adrian J Adams, Esq from Inglewood, CA.

    The Rule: The California State Bar Act pro­vides as follows:

    A. HONESTY REQUIREMENT; PROHIBITION ON DECEPTION
    1) “It is the duty of an attor­ney to do all of the fol­low­ing: *** (d) To employ, for the pur­pose of main­tain­ing the causes con­fided to him or her those means only as are con­sis­tent with truth, and never to seek to mis­lead the judge or any judi­cial offi­cer by an arti­fice or false state­ment of fact or law.” Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 6068(d).

    2) “The com­mis­sion of any act involv­ing moral turpi­tude, dis­hon­esty or cor­rup­tion, whether the act is com­mit­ted in the course of his rela­tions as an attor­ney or oth­er­wise, and whether the act is a felony or mis­de­meanor or not, con­sti­tutes a cause for dis­bar­ment or sus­pen­sion. If the act con­sti­tutes a felony or mis­de­meanor, con­vic­tion thereof in a crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ing is not a con­di­tion prece­dent to dis­bar­ment or sus­pen­sion from prac­tice there­for.” Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 6106.

    3) “Every attor­ney is guilty of a mis­de­meanor who either: (a) Is guilty of any deceit or col­lu­sion, or con­sents to any deceit or col­lu­sion, with intent to deceive the court or any party. .…” Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 6128(a).

    B. ACCOUNTING FOR MONIES RECEIVED

    The Rule: Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 6128© pro­vides that “Every attor­ney is guilty of a mis­de­meanor who … [w]illfully receives any money or allowance for or on account of any money which he has not laid out or become answer­able for.”

    C. PROHIBITION AGAINST PRESENTING CLAIM NOT WARRANTED.

    The Rule: Cal. R. Prof. Conduct 3–200 pro­vides as follows:

    A mem­ber shall not seek, accept, or con­tinue employ­ment if the mem­ber knows or should know that the objec­tive of such employ­ment is:
    (A) To bring an action, con­duct a defense, assert a posi­tion in lit­i­ga­tion, or take an appeal, with­out prob­a­ble cause and for the pur­pose of harass­ing or mali­ciously injur­ing any per­son; or
    (B) To present a claim or defense in lit­i­ga­tion that is not war­ranted under exist­ing law, unless it can be sup­ported by a good faith argu­ment for an exten­sion, mod­i­fi­ca­tion, or rever­sal of such exist­ing law.”

    D. FAILING TO ACT COMPETENTLY
    The Rule: Cal. R. Prof. Conduct 3–110 pro­vides as follows:

    (A) A mem­ber shall not inten­tion­ally, reck­lessly, or repeat­edly fail to per­form legal ser­vices with competence.

    (B) For pur­poses of this rule, “com­pe­tence” in any legal ser­vice shall mean to apply the 1) dili­gence, 2) learn­ing and skill, and 3) men­tal, emo­tional, and phys­i­cal abil­ity rea­son­ably nec­es­sary for the per­for­mance of such ser­vice.
    © If a mem­ber does not have suf­fi­cient learn­ing and skill when the legal ser­vice is under­taken, the mem­ber may nonethe­less per­form such ser­vices com­pe­tently by 1) asso­ci­at­ing with or, where appro­pri­ate, pro­fes­sion­ally con­sult­ing another lawyer rea­son­ably believed to be com­pe­tent, or 2) by acquir­ing suf­fi­cient learn­ing and skill before per­for­mance is required.”

    Feel Free to repost this sum­mary for use by the pub­lic injured by this ruth­less cabal of extor­tion­ist and harassers.

    E. PROHIBITION AGAINST ADVISING THE VIOLATION OF LAW

    The Rule: Cal. R. Prof. Conduct 3–210 pro­vides that a mem­ber “shall not advise the vio­la­tion of any law, rule, or rul­ing of a tri­bunal unless the mem­ber believes in good faith that such law, rule, or rul­ing is invalid. A mem­ber may take appro­pri­ate steps in good faith to test the valid­ity of any law, rule, or rul­ing of a tribunal.”

    F. PROHIBITION AGAINST THREATENING CRIMINAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, OR DISCIPLINARY CHARGES

    The Rule: Cal. R. Prof. Conduct 5–100(A) pro­vides that a mem­ber “shall not threaten to present crim­i­nal, admin­is­tra­tive, or dis­ci­pli­nary charges to obtain an advan­tage in a civil dispute.…”

  7. Ally

    One of the most promi­nent US bas­tions of cor­rup­tion is State of California and her Mecca and Medina for crooks and uneth­i­cal lawyers such as Karen Nagad and Adrian Adams is cer­tainly Los Angeles. Yes, it’s Rome in its rot­ten days all over again!

  8. Adrian J Adams ESQ is satan!!

    Adrian J Adams ESQ and his ter­ror­ist Karen Nagad are straight from Hell!! If “Evil Esquire” were a mag­a­zine, they would be the per­fect mas­cots. Adrian J Adams and Karen Nagad unin­vit­edly attended our Board meet­ings for HOMEOWNERS. Then they billed the asso­ci­a­tion for their hours. Is that pos­si­ble when no retainer agree­ment nor con­tract was signed?? They charged us for NOT ONE but TWO incom­pe­tent attor­neys whose only pur­pose is to bully right­eous home­own­ers into silence. Everything you read is absolutely TRUE!!
    Ms. Karen Nagad is surely a crook and a gullible one too. Adrian J Adams uses Karen Nagad for out­ra­geous tac­tics so Adrian Adams ESQ him­self could evade any BAR inves­ti­ga­tions in the event that any com­plaints were filed!! The days of bul­ly­ing home­own­ers must END. Adrian J Adams has harassed many elderly home­own­ers at the Marina City Club and where there were younger res­i­dents at other con­do­minium projects, they FOUGHT back!! I have to dis­agree that these res­i­dents are under­priv­eleged. It is Adrian and Linda Adams of Inglewood that are under­priv­eled and Karen and Abraham who once lived (or still do) live in that shack in the Fairfax area.

  9. H. Levy

    Hebrew and Farsi speak­ing uneth­i­cal lawyer KAREN NAGAD is Adrian J Adams, Esq lat­est tool in hand, which Adams uses skill­fully as part of his stalk­ing horse game to drum up HOA extor­tion business.

    Karen nagad lieks it because she makes money. According to numer­ous reports, Karen lies very well, with smile and with­out remorse. Certain reports pur­ports she prop­a­gates against First Amendment and has no prob­lem fab­ri­cat­ing evi­dence in cases filed against the asso­ci­a­tion, which she and Adams caused on pur­pose to extort more money for Adams and his cohort.

    SHAME ON YOU KAREN NAGAD!

  10. LLC

    I’ve been fol­low­ing this com­ments because Adams is also lawyer at our HOA.

    No one here likes them and huh that women Karen Nagad… Adams tried to force
    her on our HOA. We didn’t like her. She seems very tricky and dishonest.

    Friend at the other HOA told me Karen Nagad and Adams orches­trated elec­tion
    fraud and now their HOA is being sued because of that. Clever thief’s these lawyer are,
    Adams and Karen didn’t live any evi­dence about being involved… nee­dles to say HOA
    will lose a lot of money. Simply, if you have a choice avoid at all cost.

  11. Bijan

    Karen Nagad is not to be trusted.

  12. ABA Jurnal on Karen Nagad

    Adrian J Adams, Esq and Karen Nagad,Esq appear in ABA Jurnal:

    The American BAR Association (ABA) reports on EEBA and lists the names of Karen Nagad, Esq and Adrian J Adams, Esq, thanks to their appear­ance on EEBA.

    Here is a link:
    http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/evilesq/

  13. "michaela" - L.C.

    Karen Nagad, Esq name is syn­ony­mous with the term “CROOK LAWYER”.

    Karen is an immoral and dis­hon­est leach with base­ment type of moral. She chooses to cater to insur­ance com­pa­nies and asso­ci­a­tions because they have money to attack their own mem­bers and clients and because she enjoys unfair, David Vs. Goliath type of fight due to her own insecurities.

    No decent client will hire Karen Nagad.

  14. Cindy

    In our com­plex Karen went after a Muslim fam­ily, intim­i­dated and threat­ened defense­less peo­ple and caused them to move out of com­plex. Her atro­cious LACK OF ETHICS is the most appalling!

  15. Burt

    According to MANY posted reports Karen Nagad’s vex­a­tious meth­ods revolve around harass­met of home­own­ers and bul­ly­ing of ‘Certain groups ‘(immi­grants, elderly, Muslims, etc) for the sole pur­pose of “easy mak­ing of money” in dis­re­gard of Federal and State law and CA BAR code of ethics.

    Unethical lawyers Karen Nagad,Esq and her despi­ca­ble spon­sor Adrian J Adams, Esq of Adams Kessler, PLC should be sued and dis­barred if found liable for harass­ment and inten­tional inflic­tion of emo­tional dis­tress upon pro­tected groups.

  16. Dean

    By January 4, 2010 thirty three (33) dif­fer­ent peo­ple casted their vote against KAREN NAGAD and her dread­ful prac­tice of law. Al of the par­tic­i­pant clicked on 5 stars, which could be inter­preted as “the worst ever”. This in my book speaks vol­umes about the qual­ity of KAREN NAGAD service.

  17. Steve B.

    Karen Nagad should be ashamed of her­self for dis­ap­point­ing her par­ents so much by becom­ing a crook lawyer. She tops the list of the crook lawyers in California … dear Karen, how do you explain that almost 40 dif­fer­ent peo­ple attested that you are a dis­cussed per­son and a very crook lawyer?

  18. Britney Kass

    On AdamsKesler firm’s web site, Karen Nagad lies with­out shame that she has 100% trial suc­cess rate.… is that right? Of course NOT. That’s a lie, she lost many times because she lies to much and is often get­ting caught:

    http://www.adamskessler.com/#/KarenNagad

  19. HOA Resident

    Karen Nagad gained promi­nence after becom­ing the “right hand” of Adrian J Adams, Esq a.k.a. “the bully” and “the home­owner intim­ida­tor”, who harasses and intim­i­dates home­own­ers for the pur­pose of turn­ing them into lit­i­gant. This process allows this prof­i­teer­ing DUO to extracts a lot of Homeowner’s money from con­fused and naïve Board Members whose acts Adams and Karen con­trols by ren­der­ing unsound legal advices that pro­motes the con­flict rather then the res­o­lu­tion. – The smart HOA Boards reject Adams Kessler PLC, per­haps yours should do also!

  20. Bill Cohen

    KAREN NAGAD’s rep­u­ta­tion of being ultra liti­gious and unsta­ble and her prac­tice of sti­fling clients every step of the way is most appalling.

    No won­der why so many peo­ple log scam com­plaints against her and why she got kicked out from law firm of Early Maslach & Rodnicki at 700 S Flower St, Ste 2800 in Los Angeles.

    According to MANY posted reports Karen Nagad’s vex­a­tious meth­ods revolve around harass­met of home­own­ers and bul­ly­ing of ‘Certain groups ‘(immi­grants, elderly, Muslims, etc) for the sole pur­pose of “easy mak­ing of money” in dis­re­gard of Federal and State law and CA BAR code of ethics.”

  21. Rita

    Check how many aliases she goes by: http://www.123people.com/s/karen+nagad

  22. Tatyana

    Karen Nagad a.k.a. “Unstable Karen” was report­edly involved deeply in the BIG CONSTRUCTION SCAM that took place in LA Mirabelle HOA. The dol­lar amount of the dam­age done to our home­own­ers was nearly $2Mill due to over­charg­ing and ter­ri­bly shoddy work­man­ship by unli­censed Iranian and Armenian con­trac­tors, who were notably close friends of the cer­tain Board members…and their named coun­selors. (Karen Nagad is report­edly Iranian who ben­e­fit from pro­tect­ing over­priced contracts).

  23. Anetta

    There were also alle­ga­tions that liti­gious Karen, vul­ture Adrian Adams, and Mathew “Nutcase” Gardner got very fat checks to bully and harass home­own­ers who dear oppose ruth­less over­pay­ment of con­trac­tors for the pur­pose of col­lect­ing kick­backs. To pre­vent the home­own­ers form real­iz­ing their legal rights, this trio of crooks threat­ened res­i­dents con­tin­u­ously with fines, Board hear­ings and Restraining Orders. In all these numer­ous let­ters they stated no fact or had any legal bases to harass res­i­dents, yet they con­tin­ued to do so until they were threat­ened back with restrain­ing orders by resident’s attorneys.

    STAY AWAY from Adams Kessler, PLC – they are gang of enor­mous CROOKS led by a mas­ter croo for­mer HOA onsite man­ager Adrian J Adams,Esq!

  24. Tatyana

    Karen Nagad, Adrian J Adams and Mathew Gardner are ulti­mate crooks!

  25. Voter

    Oh my god, Fifty peo­ple voted Karen Nagad,Esq is CROOK!
    Does she real­ize that peo­ple she and Adrian J Adams harassed and harassed and harassed again will speak and tell the truth? Obviously they don’t care for as long as they man­age to sucker the Board into using their ser­vices to harass their polit­i­cal oppo­nents and the neigh­bors they don’t like. SHAME ON YOU KAREN NAGAD!

  26. Voter

    Everyone who vis­its this web­site, and is dis­mayed by this person’s acts and omis­sions, please vote at the top of the page to express your sen­ti­ment about this ruth­less lawyer. As hun­dreds of home­own­ers might have been affected by this ruth­less lawyer’s actions or/and the actions of her Boss, Adriain J Adams, Esq and their acts of drum­ming up busi­ness through intim­i­da­tion and stalk­ing home­own­ers with dozens of bogus vio­la­tion let­ters, it is very impor­tant that we all com­mu­ni­cate our sen­ti­ments if we want “Unstable Karen”, Adams, Gardner and other at Adams Kessler, PLC be dis­barred and pros­e­cuted under RICO statute (Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act).

  27. KAREN NAGAD IS A DEVIL

    Farsi speak­ing “homeowner-harasser” KAREN NAGAD a.k.a.“UNSTABLE KAREN” ren­o­vated her par­ents home recently using “blood money” she received from mas­ter harasser Adrian J Adams, Esq in exchange for bul­ly­ing home­own­ers and fil­ing fraud­u­lent Restraining Orders against these who asked mis­be­hav­ing Board for accu­rate account­ing of their HOA Money.

    As she did this know­ingly, and as she aided and abet­ted Board member’s and man­agers breach of fidu­ciary and such utterly dis­hon­est con­duct in spite of the fact that these requests were homeowner’s legal right, Karen Nagad a.k.a. “Unstable Karen” should be disbarred.

    Beware, Karen Nagad is dis­guis­ing her iden­tity under other attorney’s names. She is hate­ful and unscrupu­lous per­son that one should report to BAR instantly if encoun­tered, and avoid at all costs.

  28. Beware These Group

    Karen Nagad also goes by name Karen Yaghoubieh and more. Some reports sug­eat that she was shopli­fitng while she was in school and she allegedly injure a man by scratch­ing his face to hurt him…

    Beware, this relent­less con­fed­er­ate harasser-lawyers work from their homes and are report­edly dis­guis­ing their iden­ti­ties under one another’s names to con­fuse the issue, and to appear deceit­fully as a big­ger firm, to avoid being sued and other legal con­se­quences for HARASSMENT OF HOMEOWNERS.

    If you encounter this hate­ful and unscrupu­lous per­son, or any of the Adams’ “bul­lies”, do not hes­i­tate, at once report her to BAR and do not respond to her harass­ing let­ters. Harassment is ille­gal, by fil­ing sim­ple ‘STOP HARASSMENT” forms in Court you may eas­ily bring an ANTI HARASSMENT action against KAREN NAGAD, ADRIAN ADAMS or any­one else harass­ing you, to STOP their unlaw­ful conduct.

    Keep in mind, you do not need to take lawyers’s abuse. The law still applies on their con­duct as it applies on any­one else’s. Asking for TRO is nearly free and for that you do not need a lawyer. You can do it your­self. On the other hand the lawyer assisted law­suits are costly; don’t let your­self being suck­ered into the law­suit that only makes this gang of uneth­i­cal coun­selors richer. Fill up the forms and file a TRO action against. There is noth­ing there to lose by try­ing to pro­tect your prop­erty, peace, tran­quil­ity, and right to quite enjoyment.

  29. Sam Hasani

    BEWARE: If Adams Kessler PLC is work­ing with your Board of Directors, they are NOT work­ing for you home­own­ers. Period. There is no ifs, buts or sim­i­lar. Numerous Court Cases shows clearly that law­suits were filed and mas­sive amounts of home­own­ers money was wasted at the asso­ci­a­tion in which Adrian J Adams, Esq advised crook Board Members in vio­la­tion of law and aided and abet­ted a breach of fidu­ciary duty for the pur­pose of fleec­ing the HOA with enor­mously high legal bills.

    Do you want to be next? Do you wan to pay spe­cial assess­ment to fill the cof­fers emp­tied there var­i­ous fraud schemes assisted by this uneth­i­cal group of lawyers? If the answer is NOT, col­lect the sig­na­ture on the peti­tion demand­ing that your Board STOP doing busi­ness with this dread­ful “legal practitioners”.

  30. Malibu Victim

    I am amazed how many peo­ple vote against her.

    Fifty Five peo­ple! WOW!

  31. Richard Kim

    Greetings! Speaking of ethics, Karen’s ethics can be described as non exis­tent or at best, the size of a poppy-seed. She hides behind the “priv­i­lege” of a coun­selor to mask her own sadis­tic needs and tendencies.

    Karen joined the firm of Adams Kessler after learn­ing what an easy fod­der Condo Homeowners were for “can­nons” of a nasty HOA lawyer Adrian J Adams, Esq. She loved how Adams per­fected the art of scam with­out being cought and he made a lot of money by installing and defend­ing mangers he farms on his employ­ment sec­tion of the Davis Stirling website.

    This peo­ple are BAD. AVOID, AVOID, AVOID.

  32. Pat

    What a SKUNK!

  33. Kim

    Happy 4th -… As we cel­e­brate the lib­er­a­tion of our Country we need to lib­er­ate our­selves from abuse and tyranny to which the CROOK LAWYERS like Karen Nagad and Adrian Adams expose home­own­ers who live in CA Associations.

  34. Kim

    Don’t you hate crook lawyers who take advan­tage of the good peo­ple? Fifty nine peo­ple voted 5 star against Karen Nagad label­ing her as THE MOST EVIL!

    This clearly shows KAREN NAGAD colors!

  35. Tony

    You are appar­ently 100% right Kim. KAREN NAGAD is a very uneth­i­cal per­son. There is another crooked lawyer who now try to enter the Homeowner skim­ming arena. His name is Raymond N. Szu, who accord­ing to Google is also an degen­er­ate gambler.

    Does any­one know if Raymond Szu works for Adrian J Adams or if they are in any way related?

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