United Law Group
Reviews and Complaints

I received the same but they are asking for debit card payments purchased at a store or I will be going to prison. I don't have any payday loans that have not been paid.

United Law Group INC. has took 1, 750.00 from me over 2 years ago and I have got nothing out of them they will not answer my phone call or my fax. Is there any thing that can be done about this it is not right of them to do this. Action needs to be took against United Law Group INC.

On 6/30/2010 United Law Group filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in Central CA case number 8:10-bk-18945-RK. Chapter 11 lets them file a plan and reorganize. You must file a Proof of Claim against their case to get your claim for refund on the case. You could go to the CACB court office nearest you, see http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov for office locations or mail it to the clerk.

The CDCA page that offers some help is here at #10 "What Do I Do if an Individual or Business Filed for Bankruptcy and Owes Me Money?":
http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/cacb/welcome.nsf/information-selfsevicecenter-faq2?openpage#AF-B10

In summary
Download and fill out Form 10 Proof of Claim (see (1)). Be sure and ref the name United Law Group and case number 8:10-bk-18945-RK
Be sure to attach as much proof as possible (see (2)).
Mail it to the clerks office.
You will want to get it filed by October 1.

Might want to Google: how to file a proof of claim in bankruptcy "pro se"
for more info and examples. Several courts have "Creditors proceeding Pro Se" pages.

On 6/30/2010 United Law Group filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in Central CA case number 8:10-bk-18945-RK. Chapter 11 lets them file a plan and reorganize. You must file a Proof of Claim against their case to get your claim for refund on the case. You could go to the CACB court office nearest you, see http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov for office locations or mail it to the clerk.

The CDCA page that offers some help is here at #10 "What Do I Do if an Individual or Business Filed for Bankruptcy and Owes Me Money?":
http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/cacb/welcome.nsf/information-selfsevicecenter-faq2?openpage#AF-B10

In summary
Download and fill out Form 10 Proof of Claim (see (1)). Be sure and ref the name United Law Group and case number 8:10-bk-18945-RK
Be sure to attach as much proof as possible (see (2)).
Mail it to the clerks office.
You will want to get it filed by October 1.

Might want to Google: how to file a proof of claim in bankruptcy "pro se"
for more info and examples. Several courts have "Creditors proceeding Pro Se" pages.

On 6/30/2010 United Law Group filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in Central CA case number 8:10-bk-18945-RK. Chapter 11 lets them file a plan and reorganize. You must file a Proof of Claim against their case to get your claim for refund on the case. You could go to the CACB court office nearest you, see http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov for office locations or mail it to the clerk.

The CDCA page that offers some help is here at #10 "What Do I Do if an Individual or Business Filed for Bankruptcy and Owes Me Money?":
http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/cacb/welcome.nsf/information-selfsevicecenter-faq2?openpage#AF-B10

In summary
Download and fill out Form 10 Proof of Claim (see (1)). Be sure and ref the name United Law Group and case number 8:10-bk-18945-RK
Be sure to attach as much proof as possible (see (2)).
Mail it to the clerks office.
You will want to get it filed by October 1.

Might want to Google: how to file a proof of claim in bankruptcy "pro se"
for more info and examples. Several courts have "Creditors proceeding Pro Se" pages.

Nice suggestions, I loved the information - Does someone know where my business could get ahold of a sample 2005 Bankruptcy 7 example to use ?

John Wright seems to be the only one that ULG has helped they must pay you well, with my money!

I have "come clean" on this on so many blogs that is ridiculous (lol). This is because I am having to type the response over and over . At any rate, the reality is:
1. I was a client and ULG: Fact
2. I am client at Brookstone: Fact
3. Because I have a high profile blog, the CFO and PR at ULG was my point 0f contact at ULG: Fact
4. ULG went bk and I was no longer represented: Fact
5. I was not represented for months after bk: Fact
6. Damian called me and told me that Brookstone would represent me now: Fact
7. Brookstone had taken other ULG clients too: Fact
8. I have not worked for either ULG or Brookstone, as well as never received any money or been promised any money : Fact
9. Damian and I are not friends or enemies: Fact
10. I know nothing about Damian, such as where he lives, if he is married or if he has kids.: Fact
11. ULG and Brookstone were good to me, but it does not mean that other people did not have problems with them. I am venturing to guess it was because I was a high profile client, so they made sure things were done right with me: my opinion
12. There has been many law firms who have approached me since, who are willing to represent me for free because of my high profile blog. This is because any firm would like to address my supporters as potential clients: my opinion
13. Real investigators investigated this rumor that I had some kind of connection other than client attorney with the firms, they were able to conclude that these rumors were unsubstantiated by the facts.
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With that being said, I have also read the things about Damian on-line. So I investigated such claims, and was only able to conclude that he was guilty of some kind of phone marketing thing. I confronted him on it. He admitted he did it and it was a mistake. The other claims about Damain were entered in by competitors or disgruntled x-employees from ULG. Most of them are competitors, who like install fear into people, in hopes to drive traffic to the attorney they are working for, so they can get a finder's fees. I do not get a finder's fee. This is a fact.
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My investigation: My investigation would show that ULG was a victim of a marketing firm. The marketing firm had turned ULG into a produce, rather than a law firm. It is my understanding that Damian followed the blue prints, but as an employee of ULG. This is why everything would be blamed on him. However, you are looking in the wrong place. What you need to do is see who the two guys were that were in charge of the marketing. Then you will find your true answers, instead of blaming Damian for being the master mind, when he was actually nothing other than employee. ULG in the end filed bk and did not tell him. He showed up for work to find the doors locked. So much for being in control. He had snoop dog t-shirts and other belongings locked inside. He walked past the Bk trustee and had taken his own stuff. This would later be reported as "he broke in and stole things from ULG." The reason I know? I was on phone with him because he was nice enough to call me and tell me that I was no longer represented.
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In conclusion, I can understand how you might think what you are thinking. However, your allegations are clearly unsubstantiated by the facts. The reality is that I have nother connection to ULG or Brookstone, other than a client attorney relationship.
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You are just wrong. I am sorry.
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My name is John Wright AND I AM FIGHTING THE LARGEST BANK IN THE WORLD!

John Wright
piggybankblog.com

@ JOHN WRIGHT
Wow John, seems to be an awful lot of negative press for someone who claims to be a consumer advocate. What happened to focusing on taking the high road. Seems to me like your motives are for knocking the competition to boost your guys. I checked out Brookstone and Damien and United Law; Davis and Kramer seem to be angels compared to your guys previous history. Looks as if they had a number of attorneys disbarred. I'm digging a bit deeper.

Questions for you John: what is your relationship to the brookstone team or any members of the firm, that is apart from your name being on the lawsuit they recently filed.

So how about you coming clean...

Hi Tom:

I have read the complaint, as you requested. Thank you for bringing it to my attention :) I will also be posting my answer to you at the site you mentioned.

I do have past experience with dealing with Mr. Kutzner, so I already know this is going to upset people, but I like Mr. Kutzner. Now, I know that I am a target the minute I say that, such as there were a few crack pots back then that said that I worked for ULG (lol), but the reality is that I did not work for ULG. Neither has anyone ever told me what to say online. The simple fact is that Mr. Kutzner was one of the very few at United Law Group that I liked working with. This is because he was always honest with me, and even at one time even admitted that they had this CEO that had terrible social skills, and that the whole firm was suffering because of it. He seemed never so relieved, as when that CEO resigned from United Law Group. Nevertheless, Mr. Kutnzer was only the COO, which is ridiculous to claim that he was in charge of United Law Group. It would be as ridiculous as claiming that Bank of Destroying America's COO was responsible, when we all know that the CEO (Brian Moyniahn) is the responsible one. I think that Mr. Kutzner was an easy target, because he was one of the few at United Law Group that would put all of his efforts into helping people, while he constantly had the clean up the mess of the previous CEO there. The funny thing is that people are claiming that Mr. Kutzner is the one in control, but he would actually end up being a victim in the end. You see, Mr. Kutzner called me one day, after he showed up to work at United Law Group and found out they field bankruptcy. He was very upset because United Law Group filed Bankruptcy on a pay day, and he had not been paid for some time. Does that sound like he was in control, but had no idea they were going to do it on that day? He was apparently all dressed up and nowhere to go. At any rate, he told me that he thought he should call and let me know that I was no longer represented. I think he did this because of the fact that I have a high profile blog, and that I was using it to talk about my lawsuit, which I was now not represented in. Nevertheless, If it was not for Mr. Kutzner, I would have found out too late, because nobody contacted me from United Law Group. I guess when you file BK, nobody can contact you, as it must be left up to the Trustee. Which incidentally, has still never contacted me. Now, I remember Mr. Kutzner being very upset that he showed up to work to find out that he could not even go in to get his personal belongings. He spoke about some promotional t-shirts that a high profile rap artist (I choose to not name) had given him to promote his music. This was Mr. Kutzner's personal property, which I am not sure that I would have reacted any different, say it be that it happened to me. So when I read the complaint above, I kind of started laughing, because I realized what the person above was thinking (I would have thought the same), but the person did not know that it was Mr. Kutzner's personal property that the Trustee was speaking about. This is evidence of how the story gets bigger and bigger in the game of telephone. So I hope that I was able to dispel this rumor. Nevertheless, I was devastated when Mr. Kutzner called me, because now I was also dressed up and nowhere to go, and I was out any money that I spent to represent myself. I really did feel like that picture of the hawk coming down on the mouse that I display on my blog (lol). Now I was kind of looking at Bank of Destroying America, while saying "Just kidding?" (lol) At any rate, Mr. Kutzner has always displayed a very admirable passion for saving people from these banks. He even told me "John, one day the truth will come out about what these banks were doing to United Law Group." I always just viewed United Law Group as the lamb for the slaughter, while it was at the forefront of this fight against the banks. I do not know much about Vito. Therefore, I cannot really offer much comment on this part of the complaint above. I can say that he appears to have a clean record with the Bar Association, and therefore one might want to consider that. . As far as I am concerned, Mr. Kutzner is one of the very few silent heroes in this fight against the banks, but certainly has not done so without injury

United Law Group was the original firm that I used to file my lawsuit against BofA. Though I had heard that they had a lot of problems, I just always went with my own experience with them, which was drastically different from the others that I had read about online. For example, there were many people who said that ULG told them not to pay their mortgage, just so they could qualify for a modification, (which if they did, THEY WOULD BE RIGHT) or that they promised them a modification. This was drastically different from my experience, because they told me the opposite. In fact, they even recorded the call to cover their [censor]. So I did not believe that they told these people all this, but I thought that they might have heard what they wanted to hear. Besides, how are we going to trust clients that willingly admitted that they were engaging in a conspiracy to not pay their mortgage, as a means of defrauding the banks. The reality is that no court would consider this kind of person as credible testimony, and I do not really either. Nevertheless, I cannot really speak about other people's experience. With that being said, I was very concerned about the complaints that I was reading, but it was my personal experience that told me that Countrywide was denying people the use of an attorney because they lied to me and said I was not represented, but only proved they were lying because they would send me a letter that said "You are not represented by United Law Group." However, this fact caused a trickledown effect with the law firms, who were trying to help represent people with these banks, such as Bank of Abusing America. United Law Group probably told their clients exactly what the banks were saying, such as "We have nothing yet, " but you United Law Group was at the banks mercy, just like us. Who would have thought then, that the banks would be arrogant enough to give law firms the finger? Is there anyone here that does not believe that Bank of Destroying America was not telling United Law Group that they never received the paperwork? Of course they told them that, in which United Law Group was forced to tell their clients the very same thing. Now I know that people are upset that they lost their money, but you tell me where you paid a retainer and the attorney guaranteed you win? They only guaranteed that they would represent the client, which United Law Group certainly did. Therefore, I see no fraud, but consider the claim as ridiculous as the claim itself. If this is true, we can anticipate the FBI storming into every law firm, simply because they all charged a retainer (lol). Which by the way, laws in California said that they could no longer charge upfront fees, which left California with no representation, simply because there is not attorney that is going to work without a retainer. The banks must have been celebrating on that day.
Therefore, it is my belief that the media used United Law Group as scapegoat, while it deflected the attention of the American people away from the real potential criminals, which was Bank of America. . The banks were potentially guilty of the very same crimes that they were claiming that ULG was guilty of, such as:

1. BofA had taken an upfront fee for the consideration of a modification (three month trial period_
2. BofA contracted answering services
3. BofA did not give the modification
4. BofA did not call the customers back within a reasonable time.

I do not see the FBI raiding Bank of Defrauding America? Why?

In conclusion, it is my opinion that Bank of Destroying America will stop at nothing to try and discredit any firm that tries to represent the American people against them. This is why I feel it is important that people do not allow these banks to use their long stretching arm, as a means to deflect the attention away from who the real enemy might be, which is the banks themselves.

My name is John Wright AND I AM FIGHTING BACK

John Wright
piggybankblog.com

They are actually on to their next scam under Brookstone Law. Their address is now 4000 MacArthur, Newport Beach, CA. They are subleasing office space from Conexant on the 11th floor. Damian is the "brains" behind the operation once again, out to scam people. The FTC is aware of this and are hot on his tail. My guess is that his operation will be shut down and seized once again by the FTC within the next 6 months. Vito is the managing attorney and will eventually lose his license.

Documents filed in BK court show that Brookstone Law subleases space and operates out of ULG's offices and Vito Torchia runs it.

In ULG bankruptcy CAC 8:10-bk-18945 the Chapter 7 Trustee on 9/27 filed an Emergency Motion that states records seized show:
ULG subleased a protion of their space to Damian Kutzner and Serious Pimp
Kutzner and Serious Pimp paid no rent and may have gotten rent credits (?)
Kutzner is COO of ULG.
Kutzner was paid $28, 000 per month from ULG ! "while attorneys were paid significantly less"

Trustee also states that Kutzner has been removing property and has filed an Adversary case against him to get that property back.

Vito Torchia, Jr filed a declaration opposing so he is certainly part of the mess. In it he states he's managing partner of Brookstone Law, and also subtenant of ULG. So the Brookstone 1999 Avenue of the Stars adress published on the website (and at the CA bar) is not the real one. The way Vito tells it they are still doing work so they may still be filing BKs, could be doing work on ULGs existing cases. If you have questions about BL or ULG Vito's email is vtj@brookstone-law.com or try his asst Daniel email DKruid@brookstone-law.com.

This is all from public records.

Now that the full bankruptcy petition has been filed we can see the kind of company that John Wright has been defending.

From the Form B7 ...
in MA Bk 10-1152 they were suesd by the US Trutee and lost and we required to return $7500 in fees plus fined $30, 000. They signed up a person for Loan Mod and got $4500 from them. No mod happened, they told victim they had to file bankruptcy. For another $3000 they prepared the BK and sent it to them. The case was prepared from just a questionaire, the victim never spoke to an attorney at ULG. No attorney at ULG signed the petition, they did not fill up the preparer info either. All not legal so the judgement to return fees plus $30, 000 in fines. None of it paid.

In GA Middle pretty much the exact same deal as case# 10-70527.

Similar complaints in
GA North 10-67870 judgement $2100.
AZ 10-10322 fined $5300, 10-6597 $2600
Also in KY; NY; WA; OH $202, 205; PA, IN, FL, AL

The story in the case proceedings I read from MA and GA-M matches up what the original poster said. They file your case but then never represent you. They actually don't file the case, they send you the papers to file Pro Se. All this prepared without talking to an Attorney. None of these victims will ever get any money.

I wonder if these companies with big claims on the ULG bankruptcy (Brookstone, Black Gold Leasing, Zec Management, Century Law) are just there to suck up all the money so victims cannot get it.

So John Wright I'm glad you had such success. The bankruptcy points to suits that details just how bad ULG was to debtors and loan mod people.

Great information on the connection and how these types of companies just try to change it up and then take your $ - looking forward to your website, so I can get in touch with these crooks
How about all the addresses, including home addresses - that may help as well
If they dont answer MY calls, then maybe I can send some mail to there homne address

Brookstone and United law group-
What research did you do that says they are not connected? HERE'S THE CONNECTION JOE-
Here is the connection-
1st they both occupy the same office- I dont care that the address for brookstone is listed different- The address lsited is yet again another address for mail.
Here's the connection-
The very same attorney listed shares the same facilities, and answers to ULG owner.
Here's the connection-
According to PUBLIC RECORD, Brookstone is listed as a creditor of ULG- Why is that? I bet it will be for legal services, but in reality it will be for work directly connecting both of them to a failed business
Here's the connection-
ULG will file BK (as It did, back in June, and WOW- BROOKSTONE IS LISTED as a creditor- IMAGINE THAT!
Here's the connection-
Employees will go from ULg to Brookstone at a moments notice- again another PUBLIC RECORD (see EDD filiings-if you really know how to research, this will be easy)
Here's the connection-
Black gold Leasing- That's who pays Brookstone ! WOW what a coincident that BLACK GOLD is also listed as a creditor. Waith till the checks and the account is fully investigated, that they all are one.
Here's the connection-
I can assure you WHEN THEY PRESS BROOKSTONE, they will get the real answers- You can't deny valid public records, as well as video of who comes and goes EVERYDAY to the office. I will forward a NEW website that will allow you to watch this. Again, I will take my free time and gladly spend my $ to get this explained
The same people are calling my parents and trying to sell them a report, that will help them save their home-
I call BS- I had to pay at auction full price to save my Mom's home. I understand that not every case will work out, but they did nothing- Never ONCE NEVER ONCE did they ever call my Mom with an update- NEVER- The only time they would call is to see another service-
I honestly dont think the attorney listed even knows what is going on- There is a pattern forming- The same thing that happend with Sean Rutledge will happen to the existing attorney- That's sad.
I am almost done investigatng what other businesses these cats are in to and will post accordingly

Another raid but this time it's the attorneys bank accounts frozen and practices taken over by the CA State Bar

http://www.calbar.ca.gov/AboutUs/News/201116.aspx

Well looky here! You are all over posting this all over the web! (lol) Just like a troll who is working!
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I do have to admit……. the one who said "Crookstone law" did make me laugh (tongue in cheek) Even I have to admire that wit (lol)
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My name is blah, blah, blah AND I JUST FOUGHT BACK!
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http://www.piggybankblog.com/2011/03/12/mass-litigation-alliance-caught-red-handed/
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John Wright
piggybankblog.com

Well looky looky -the government did it for free:

Gov't orders 14 lenders to reimburse homeowners
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110413/ap_on_bi_ge/us_foreclosure_reimbursed

Looks like Vito and Kutzner's $5, 895 a pop theft-ride is over! WOOHOO!

A MESSAGE FROM VITO TORCHIA, JR. MANAGING ATTORNEY, BROOKSTONE LAW PC
Please be aware that people continue to use anonymous negative postings on the Internet to defame Brookstone Law, PC, and its attorneys and staff. They are posing as alleged clients or alleged potential clients and these claims are wholly untrue fabrications intended only to harm the public and impair our ability to serve our current and potential clientele.

The posted accusations are false statements created to try to prohibit Brookstone Law from helping homeowners. Brookstone Law is not affiliated in any way with the organizations or individuals we believe are posting these false statements, including K2 Law, Matt Davis, Esq., or Mass Litigation Alliance, and their affiliates, associates and Ambassadors. Please also note these posts are not from clients of Brookstone Law, PC, or Mitchell J. Stein, Esq. In fact, positive unsolicited endorsements of our services from Brookstone Law PC clients may be found on our website at www.brookstone-law.com. Information from Brookstone Law regarding these false and defamatory postings is here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/03/11/prweb8200951.DTL. If you are a client of Brookstone Law, PC, please contact us with any questions at the phone number or email address below.

We welcome any legitimate comments or inquiries about Brookstone Law, PC, its attorneys, staff or services and will gladly and personally respond to them. For immediate assistance or information, please contact our Consumer Protection Department at [protected] or at ConsumerAlert@Brookstone-Law.com.

I totally agree with John, I am not saying that I am in favour with Damian Kutzner but since I have also taken his services and I can say I am 100% satisfied and this is my duty to support him.

I do not know what to tell you, but I am John Wright. You can verify this fact at piggybankblog.com by sending me an email at the site, and I will gladly respond.

Not to be rude or anything (even though your calling me a liar) but why should anyone believe what you are saying right now, when you are absolutely wrong that I am Damian? Wouldn't that suggest your perception of reality is a little off?

Once again, no disrespect meant :)

John Wright
piggybankblog.com

Hey John..."Damian Kutzner is an honest man." Hilarious. By the way, what's your real name John? Could you be Damian or Damian's assistant? What a joke you are. If Damian owes you money or has scammed you, he can be reached at /removed/. I'm sure he would love to hear from you.

You know, I lost out because of the BK too, but I have to tell you that Damian Kutzner was one of the only few people there that always dealt straight with me. Damian Kutzner was an honest man, who seemed to truly have empathy for what was happening out there to us. I mean, he controlled some things, but that was because he was the guy in charge of spending money for things such as promotion. Ultimately, the problems ULG had were caused by the previous CEO who had left them so damaged, that the next CEO had to file bankruptcy.

Damian Kutzner was nice enough to call me the day he showed up for work and found out that he could not enter the building because of the BK. So he was screwed over too because had his personal stuff in there. Now, if he was in control it would stand to reason that he would have gotten his personal stuff out before ULG signed off with the BK Trustee. That right there shows that he was not as much in control as you think. He paid employees, but he did not have ultimate control. It is also important to mention that he was not even being paid for months, so he is a victim too, just like you and me.

Now I know that you are going to come out here and slam me and make outrageous claims that I was paid to say this ect. ect., but it is not true. Certainly, I am a victim too right now, because nobody told me this was going to happen and I ended up not being represented.

My name is John Wright and stand behind Damian Kutzner character. He is a good man who did his best.

John Wright
piggybankblog.com

The current raid on ULG is just another legal problem that Damian Kutzner will get himself out of. I am a former employee of Mr. Kutzner from his Global Mortgage Funding days. I was there when the FTC raided our office and shut us down. (Only for the weekend) I was one of the employees that could not even grab her purse with out a FEDERAL AGENT asking questions. Be careful of this man. He doesnt pay his employees and has a stream of businesses in the mortgage industry, all of which have something to do with scamming people out of there money. Global Mortgage Funding, Inforte, he even had an Escrow Company that he stole money from. Please... anyone defending this man is a close friend or someone who is actually getting paid by him. Watch out he is a snake!

My husband and I started with United Law Group in Feb 2009 and nothing happened. We sent them the fee and also sent them all our information. They could not provide us with any documentation of anyone they spoke to at our bank. Our mgt is with Huntington Bank and we started the loan modification process with them in Oct. 2009 and have completed a loan mod and also they rewrote your my car loan. So definately start with your bank first ask them to help you and it will probably go much better then dealing with the likes of United Law Group. When we would call in they would leave us on hold for long periods of time and or hang up on us. I hope that all the repondsible parties involved will receive the justice they deserve for stringing people along for such an important issue as say almost losing your home. We have filed locally with our Attorney General's office and they have filed a complaint on our behalf.

On 6/30/2010 United Law Group filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in Central CA case number 8:10-bk-18945-RK. Chapter 11 lets them file a plan and reorganize. You must file a Proof of Claim against their case to get your claim for refund on the case. You could go to the CACB court office nearest you, see http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov for office locations or mail it to the clerk.

The CDCA page that offers some help is here at #10 "What Do I Do if an Individual or Business Filed for Bankruptcy and Owes Me Money?":
http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/cacb/welcome.nsf/information-selfsevicecenter-faq2?openpage#AF-B10

In summary
Download and fill out Form 10 Proof of Claim (see (1)). Be sure and ref the name United Law Group and case number 8:10-bk-18945-RK
Be sure to attach as much proof as possible (see (2)).
Mail it to the clerks office.
You will want to get it filed by October 1.

Might want to Google: how to file a proof of claim in bankruptcy "pro se"
for more info and examples. Several courts have "Creditors proceeding Pro Se" pages.

United Law Group was raided by the FBI, Postal Department, Irvine Police Department and the District Attorney today. Get your money back while you can!

This Law firm is a fraud. somebody has to take them down. I am going to try my best. Client # 89245

united law group let me go in to forcloser .in the past week i have emailed them 5 times with no responce report them to californa bar i am going after them realy hard

It shows nothing.. they use all these multiple government agencies as a SCARE TACTIC! ICE was there? C'mon is this some Drug Cartel that they have to bring 10 different agencies into a "Business" in Irvine with there guns drawn? I heard they where pointing there hand guns in the faces of female employees.. I mean C'mon! This is Ridiculous!

How many people in jail are mad at there attorneys and want a refund? Everyone has to remeber that ULG didnt sign your loan documents with the bank as a personal gurantee to get your home. WE DID! So we want to blame everyone as to whos problem it is and as a last attempt we hire a LAW FIRM for $1750 to try and get us out of the mess we put ourselves into. As well as not making payments on the home which we live in for over 10 months? Everyone has to pay rent? What gives us the right not to pay ANYTHING for the home we live in then place ALL our blame on ONE LAW FIRM hat we tried to use to get us some more time in our house FOR FREE! ITS TIME TO WAKE UP AND LOOK AT THE REAL PROBLEM and thats the banks!

This law group is in way over thier heads with the loan modification business they have taken on. What may have seemed like the next goldmine revenue stream for ULG in 2008, has now blown-up on them because all banks are currently standing-off on making any loan mods...afterall, these banks will lose money if they do, and just as the economy is showing signs of recovery...the banks will not budge at this point...the opportunity to legitimately have a loan mod done under any circumstances dried-up in late 2008 early 2009.

The customer support for ULG loan mod customers has now degenerated to a brisk phantom "hang-up" after passing through the bogus menu options...if you want any kind of closure to your business with ULG, your only resort is to drive down to the office and politely, persistently demand to see your negotiator or a customer care manager...

I am in the same spot most are on this site 9 months and a refusal came back from my bank in July...I have not heard from them since. Mission impossible attempts to reach them by phone has yeilded a very low success rate, and when I do get through, I get a promise for a call back, or a canned response aimed at freeing the phoneline as quickly as possible.

The documents we all signed to get into this basically states that, ULG really never promised ANY results, and that we as consumers were proceeding at our own risk...there will be no refunds, just hard lessons learned.

United Law Group has been sued in California in a national class action. Read the complaint here.
http://www.lakeshorelaw.org/News/Pending%20Lawsuit.aspx

United Law Group saved my home. They didn't promise the the world. They are a law firm, not miracle workers. If you hire an attorney to sue someone there's no guarantee that you'll win the judgement. Taht doesn't mean the firm isn't working. It took 8 months. 5 months longer than I expected. But they worked at it and it paid off. United Law Group is a good firm.

the same thing, happen to us, with United Law Group Inc. They said that they would get a modfication for us with ASC, it never happen, they do not return phone calls, it might be, a week later. we paid 2, 500. we have notgotten anysafication from this company, i will tell anyone not to hired this company.

It takes all of 5 minutes to look up the lawyers with the CA Bar, which would make anyone change their mind. Why ULG posts the names of their attorneys is a mystery, it only hurts them.

I have the same exact story as you. They told us that all the foreclosure documents were scare tactics from our lender. When our home was published in the local newspaper through the Chancery Court for sale, they again told me that this was a scare tactic from the lender and that it was unlawful for our lender to sell our home. Well I am a county employee and decided to talk to the Chancery Clerk and she said the Notice of Sale was legal and that I should contact our lender and a lawyer ASAP! Her mouth dropped when I explained everything ULG told us.

My husband called our lender to see if there was anything we could work out with them and in about 30 minutes he was pre-approved for a Loan Modification. They said that the underwriters would take a look at it and contact us. But I am still worried that I will lose my home. I am not sure if this process will stop the sale of my home, which is scheduled for Sept 24, 2009.

Can anyone please give me some advise? We are running out of time.

united law group is or was very dishonest. they would not even return calls, once they received the money

united law group took my money and did nothing for me at all

I can get my money back

because united law group no call no show in my case Iam of las vegas nv

Anyone who was solicited by United Law Group should contact Lakeshore Law Center as soon as possible. The law firm is suing United Law Group for illegal conduct and is seeking refunds for its customers.

www.lakeshorelaw.org

United Law Group has been sued in California in a national class action. Read the complaint here.
http://www.lakeshorelaw.org/News/Pending%20Lawsuit.aspx

how did you get intouch with sean rutledge we have asked to speak with him every time we call? please let me know we forclose in 10 days. my e-mail is rcs@prodigy.net
we are Desperate we can not loose are home I have MS and this stress has me sicker than ever.

Oh, you fell for the $150 American Express card, you were bought off too easy.

Sean & Stanely,
I have swamp land for sale!

United Law Group is only interested in your taking your money! January 2009 I decided to get a loan modification with United Law group I paid the $3, 500 for the loan modifacation.

I was notified by a real estate agent that my home was going up for auction only hours before my home was going up for auction. Jerred from United law group told me that i had to come up with $14, 000 or the bank was going to sell the house, I didnt recive any new infomation about my case until it was to late.

My family and i have no home and nowhere to stay. I trusted United Law Group and all they did was take my money, Im ashamed and devastated that a socaled Law group would do that to despred family's

I contracted with ULG back in Dec 2008, paid $1500 for a loan modification. It is now Sep 2009 and to date nothing has taken place except for a hearing notice for court from my mortgage company. I followed ULG advise to "not contact the lender", "ignore phone calls' etc. I have done so this far. I continued to get collections notice and phone calls which they said was "illegal" for the bank to do. and that " banks lie and do this type of illegal" stuff all the time. I have spoken to dozens of different people at ULG. Their seems to be extremely high turnover because when I ask for specific people I am told they no longer work here. We are now being foreclosed on when they also told me " that it is illegal for a bank to foreclose on you during a modification". Apparently banks are not smart enough to continue with "so called" illegal activity. I don't buy it anymore.

After having a newborn baby during this process it is more important to us now that we have a place to live. For the last 10 months the only response i get on my account is "it's with the negotiator" mind you i have had 3 different negotiators during this time, they keep changing.

I finally started digging in to this company, they do in fact have an F rating on BBB website, many of the complaints are exactly what we are going through. I feel like the idiot for not investigating this company deeper, their website looks "real". I don't doubt that they do in fact exist however they do not do what they "promised" they would do, my modification time line expired months ago so this process should have been done and over with a long time ago, they keep blaming the bank.
The next bombshell that was dropped was when i called and asked who will be their with us in court and the response was " you need to hire one of our attorney's" WHAT! so we are going to court alone, fighting U.S Bank. in reality we have decided we are going to lose the home where we were married and our first child was born. We are now looking for a place to rent and get out while their is still time. I am so disgusted and sickened by the misrepresentation of ULG and it has caused so much grief and stress I cannot begin to describe. I would beg anyone who is considering using this company PLEASE DO NOT. If it makes any difference to anyone reading this I am a Christian and would never speak ill of anyone or post any "lies" on a website. These are factual and true. A class action suit must be filed and as soon as we are out of this house and I can plan and afford I am seeking a "real" law firm as to what can be done. They need to be shut down and put in jail as far as I am concerned.

I even e-mailed Sean Rutledge and expressed my concerns how this is not going anywhere and the response I am getting from his staff.
He left me an extremely rude phone message which that should have been my first clue. But we were desperate and hung in their.
Hindsight is always 20/20 and we should have worked with the bank, at first we tried but our bank would not help, then we hired ULG, then the bank was wanting to help after we starting missing payments, that's when ULG said they are scared of what "we can do for you".
no more can be said other than $1500 later, complete and utter stress and being in limbo for 10 months of not "knowing" and we are now being foreclosed on.

My husband and I also paid a high fee to have United Law Group try and negotiate our mortage through Country Wide/Bank of America and as we are sitting down with court clerks and mediators to dig OURSELVES out of what ULG got us into...I find it to be one big scam. For the first 4 months we were able to have contact with our negotiator, then we would get assigned another negotiator, and no one would return phone calls or emails and then all of a sudden there were 2 more diff. negotiators. We started this in April of 2009...as of July 2009 they have not made any contact with our mortgage company-IT HAS BEEN A YEAR and here we are trying to avoid foreclosure. On top of all this, they had the nerve to call about 3 weeks ago going on about another program that would only cost us $800.00...ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! How about handling the first issue we paid for...talk about a breach of contract. If they at least kept up contact with us and also was making an effort with our mort. company-then I could say we tried and the mort. company denied us for modification. I can't say that, because they haven't even done that...the only thing they have done is scammed us out of money and has put an emotional toll on me and my family.
Mr. and Mrs. Lead

The company promised to help us with a loan mod. They send us a packet with a lot of paper work, everything looked very legitimate. They charged us $2000.00. Now the website does not work and all the phone numbers are all disconnected. I have been to The BBB and there are hundreds of complaints against them. There is also a link through the State of California Bar association to file a complaint.

United Law Group is a scam and the people who work there are ### of the earth. They said they could help me modify my mortgage loan for $4, 800. I paid them the money and almost immediately they disappeared. The scam is almost perfect. They send you a welcome package that says they have contacted your bank and have asked in a legal manner to stop all proceeding against you and that they are demanding that the bank produce some legal documents before proceeding. Meanwhile, they ask you to fill out lots of personal information and get that back to them. When you do that they still do nothing. I waited 4 months for them to act. I could not reach them by phone. You call and you get an answering service who takes your message but nobody ever calls back. You keep calling and you eventually get a live person, who is rude and will hang up on you if you complain about how poor the service is.
Then I received notice that my bank was foreclosing. I called ULG to ask why the bank was foreclosing when ULG said they had everything under control, and as usual I was not able to talk to anyone. After a few days my bank called me and wanted to make me an offer and agreed to stop the foreclosure. I then called ULG to get my money back. They had done nothing for me, so I wanted my money back. Eventually, on 2/1/2010, I reached someone named Stephanie who said she was the customer services supervisor. She said the refund would take 4-6 weeks. I never heard another thing. I called back on 3/26 and eventually talked to Marissa, Stephanie's replacement. She said she would send an email to the refund department and that is all she could do. When I asked for the phone number to the refund department, she said she could not give it to me, that it was company policy not to. Marissa said I should receive a call by 3/30/2010. I never received a call!
Today, 4/8/2010 I call again. This time I'm told that the refund department will call me back. I wait 2 hours and nobody calls, so I call back. I'm then told that I complain too much and that is why it is taking so long to return my money.
I will never get my money back. This is a complete scam. They have not done one thing for me but take my money. A man with a fake British accent on a phone message, and a stressed out lady posing as a customer services representative is all that exists here. We need to send these criminals to prison. Please do not give them your money.

has anyone recieved any money back from the class action lawsuit against the united law group

As I am reading the comments and compliants from everyone. I just want to cry. We were scammed as well and ended up losing our home over it. It was like one nightmare after another. We did everything they told us to do and they sat on our paperwork and just flat out lied to us. Makes me wonder how they all sleep at night knowing they do this to so many good people? We even drove to California Irvine office to talk to someone in person only to find out everyone is out to lunch. Wow! Americans doing this to Americans. I wish everyone out there luck with their endevours and keep your chins up. Perez

So I am curious of all you people that put the blame on these companies. If they didn't get the job done, then get your money back- I see so many people that pay a fee and think they are going to live in there house for free, while someone tries to work on a problem that you created- I honestly think people like to blame companies for going behind- If yo uwent behind in the past, you simply sold your house and started over- Thats tough to hear but its the facts- BOA can take up to 2 years to get to your file- I know of one that is going on 26 months!
If yo ureally want something done- go to the branch and make a scene

The CDCA page that offers some help is here at #10 "What Do I Do if an Individual or Business Filed for Bankruptcy and Owes Me Money?":
http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/cacb/welcome.nsf/information-selfsevicecenter-faq2?openpage#AF-B10

In summary
Download and fill out Form 10 Proof of Claim (see (1)). Be sure and ref the name United Law Group and case number 8:10-bk-18945-RK
Be sure to attach as much proof as possible (see (2)).
Mail it to the clerks office.
You will want to get it filed by October 1.

Might want to Google: how to file a proof of claim in bankruptcy "pro se"
for more info and examples. Several courts have "Creditors proceeding Pro Se" pages.

On 6/30/2010 United Law Group filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in Central CA case number 8:10-bk-18945-RK. Robert J Buscho is ULG's Attorney. Chapter 11 lets them file a plan and reorganize. It can delay things a long time if they can't get the creditors to agree to a plan.

You could try filing a Proof of Claim against their case. You could go to the CACB court office nearest you, see http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov for office locations. As to how to file the POC the clerk may help, probably better to search the web for how to file a proof of claim in bankruptcy. You will want to provide as much proof as possible.

LIKE I SAY THEY WOULD ANSWER OURS PHONE CALLED BACK TO LET US KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH OUR CASE WITH THEM WE HAVE TO END UP RENT AHOUSE

IHERMAN AND SHIRLEY WENT THOUGH THE SAME THING THEY TAKE OUR LIVE SAVE AND DIDNT DO ANYTHING FOR US WE LOST OUR HOUSE MY HUSAND HAVE GO IN THE HOPISTAL BEHIND THAT THEY WOULDNT ANSWER MY PHONE

Write to Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly we all must be heard we have all the same stories so were not all nuts! Please please write to them we all must do this the are scam artists!

PLEASE Nothing is more hurtful than looking into your wife and child's eyes and feeling like you failed them
I posted somewhere else in greater detail. I am posting everywhere I can against this company

United Law Group has been sued in California in a national class action. Read the complaint here.
http://www.lakeshorelaw.org/News/Pending%20Lawsuit.aspx

bjay, you are a ###, obviously working at ULG. What a stupid post.

United Law Group destroys innocent lives