San Diego's Pacific Law Center has been hit with lawsuits, a judge's ruling and action by the Better Business Bureau in recent months, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Sunday.
Former clients said they didn't get enough time with an attorney at the firm, which has 25 lawyers on staff and claims to have to have served 10,000 clients since it opened four years ago, and were given unrealistic assessments of their case.
The Union-Tribune says court documents and interviews with nearly a dozen lawyers who left the firm but didn't sue speak to non-lawyer "legal assistants" raising clients' expectations beyond what's achievable so they'll hire the firm.
Two former lawyers for the firm, who are suing, claim they were terminated for objecting to unethical practices like unlicensed clerks signing clients and doling out legal advice.
Also, the Better Business Bureau lowered the firms rating from satisfactory to neutral after 38 complaints over the last three years and a judge criticized the firm for seeking public funds for indigent defendants in two cases where the clients had paid thousands of dollars in fees.
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