Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
The Evil Esquire Bar Association is seeking public comment regarding the misadventures of California attorney Zachary Ian Gonzalez [#102115], prior to accepting nominations for his induction into the EEBA.
Zachary’s addition to our watch list was precipitated by the EEBA’s discovery that “complaints have been filed against him.” According to information obtained by the EEBA, Zachary is a real estate attorney who engages in providing loan modification services. Caveat Emptor!
Anyone with information regarding Mr. Gonzalez is encouraged to anonymously comment to assist consumers of legal services to assess his character and professional abilities.
Gonzalez’s address is as follows:
Law Office of Zachary Ian Gonzalez
11820 Pierce St Ste 200
Riverside, CA 92505
Phone: +1 (951) 263-0349
Fax: +1 (800) 507-3664
Email: zacharygonzalez@gmail.com
Zachary obtained his undergraduate degree from California State University, Long Beach and his law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law. According to his bar record Zachary has “no public record of discipline” nor any record of administrative actions.
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Consumers of legal services in California cannot rely on the Cal Bar to assist them in the event they become a victim of, for instance, one of the 13,529 attorneys complaints were filed against in 2008. Moreover, it is very difficult to discern whether or not a lawyer has engaged in “misconduct” or even illegal activity because the Cal Bar does not publish the complaints they “decline” to investigate. California consumers “roll the dice” every time they retain a lawyer and one out of twelve times they will make the wrong choice.
Interim Chief Trial Counsel Russell Weiner recently expressed bewilderment regarding the number of lawyers preying on consumers. “The number of attorneys using their law licenses to essentially take money from unwary but trusting consumers is astounding,” according to Weiner.
Obviously Russ has been living in a different dimension and just rejoined the human race here in reality. Each year, formal complaints are filed against 8.5 percent of California’s active lawyer population. From 2004 through 2008 the Cal Bar disciplined only 3.1 percent of the lawyers regarding whom they received complaints. During this period, only 0.8 percent of complaints received by the Cal Bar from consumers of legal services i.e., victim clients, opposing parties, etc. resulted in disciplinary action against the offending lawyer. The only conclusion we can draw from our analysis is that the California Bar is highly political– read corrupt.
For decades, California’s lawyers have been given too much latitude by the State Bar to screw consumers of legal services. The crisis Russ finds himself entwined in has been building for years. 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!
While California is certainly in the bottom quartile of U.S. “attorney discipline” systems, in our opinion, no state adequately protects consumers. EvilEsq.com can help to equalize this problem. If you have information regarding the attorney mentioned above please, comment on this post, rate the lawyer’s “evility” and assist others to find EvilEsq.com and this post by using the button to post a link to EvilEsq.com.
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I was unfortunate enough to have to deal with this joker. Since CA made it law that a company “selling” loan modifications must have a legal attorney to collect up front fees, Pacific Loan Modifications (Pacific Residential, Inc) hired this guy so they can rip off distressed home owners. They advertised him to me as their “Legal Team with one of the most aggressive lawyers in the state” in Jan 2009. He is their entire “Legal Team” and I’ve since found out that he had only been a lawyer for 1 month at that time. How likely is it that a lawyer even sees the inside of a courtroom within a month of getting licensed? He is basicly a stooge for Pac Res Inc. that signs their phony paperwork that gets sent to lenders. Mr. Gonzalez tells lies to comfort you about how hard they are working for you and how progress is being made, “but just don’t contact the lender and ask any questions because they will cancel the deal if you say the wrong thing” but then after you’ve had enough and do some digging, you find out that Mr. Gonzalez and Pac Res Inc. have not done anything other then fax over some items, that YOU have provided them to the lender. They have no idea whats going on wih your interests and they already have your money so they don’t really care either. They charge you $5,000-10,000 for you to do all the work. All they do is have someone fax it to the bank with a zeroxed cover sheet that has Gonzalez signature on it.
Their business is taking advantage of distressed home owners and business is booming. Since they ripped me off, they have opened 4 more call centers cause the 1 place can’t take peoples money fast enough.
Not sure if he’s seen a courtroom yet but judging from how the DA’s office is prosecuting similar people/companies, I think they will all be seeing one soon. Hopefully the inside of jail cells also for stealing from so many people at their most vulnerable.
(sorry for any typos. writing this as I wait for a flight)
so this guy is a phoney. well i received a letter from his office stating he could basically erase the 2nd mortgage on my house. i decided to check him out on the web. thanks to your post i will not be seeing him. thank God for people like you outthere to save others from these crooked bums. sorry this happened to you. claudia capadona