Charles Castellon | Orlando Real Estate Lawyer

• Florida Bar
• Rotary Club of Ocoee
• Central Florida Real Estate Council
• Hunters Creek Business Council | Board Member
• Central Florida Realty Investors | Business Member
• Orlando Regional Realtors Association | Affiliate Member
• Osceola County Association of Realtors | Affiliate Member
• Central Florida Commercial Association of Realtors | Associate Member
• Kissimmee Osceola Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council Chairman
  2015

• Affiliate Member of the Year Osceola County Association of Realtors
  2012

CPC Law has helped many clients in the last few years avoid foreclosure and save their homes. In one case, we stepped in to defend a foreclosure with a final hearing approaching, negotiated a loan modification the clients could pay and helped a family avoid being put out on the street.

I've built our practice by focusing on our "why" rather than "how" or "what" we do. Stephen Covey said "the best way to predict your future is to create it." We help our clients create better futures through problem solving and planning (preventing future problems). The legal profession has become commoditized with do it yourself products and free information online and we're over-populated. For attorneys to make a real difference in their clients' lives, they should serve as long-term trusted advisors to help clients in many ways as well as to refer them to other trusted advisors in our law firm's community. We don't want to be merely a "one-shot" problem-solver for the issue the client brings us initially. Check out a further description of our firm's philosophy and our "why" in this linked article from our blog. http://centralflattorney.com/help/why-we-want-to-serve-our-clients-bacon-eggs/

It's been said that clients don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Any good lawyer should put the client's best interests ahead of the lawyer's. This includes declining representation (and the fee that would come with it) when the client doesn't really need the help or there's nothing the attorney can do. The attorney should be thoughtful, professional and mindful of developing a long-term trusted advisor relationship with the client.

In most cases, local knowledge is not very important. Of course, when handling lawsuits, knowing the local judges and often, the attorneys on the other side can be very beneficial in terms of helping attorneys know how to handle certain players in the game. In most cases, however, the facts of the case and law that applies will control, regardless of the people involved. The individual attorney's skills and knowledge will always be important, but most cases are won or lost on their own merits.

We can advise potential clients of their options, worst and best-case scenarios and the likely costs involved with the various options. We can also offer an opinion on whether any given matter is even worth pursuing. Our firm will also honestly tell the client if we're not a good fit for them.

The attorney will need the basic facts of the matter-what happened? The prospective client should also be ready to state his or her concerns and the reasons for seeking legal advice in the first place. There's more, but most of the other information depends on the given situation.

The legal profession is broken in many ways and I've built and will continue building a law firm dedicated to creating the greatest value for our clients. My ""BHAG"" (big, hairy, audacious goal) is to change the legal profession. One example is our elimination of the traditional billable hour model. Attorneys collect fees in several ways, including flat fees, contingency (a percentage of the recovery) and hourly billing. The hourly billable model has traditionally been abusive to clients, even when the attorney is honest and thoughtful about the time billed. For example, the legal profession has created a world where the smallest unit of time in the universe is 6 minutes because our billing software doesn't even allow us to bill for less than "".1"" hour, or 6 minutes. Results include what happened to a friend of mine working with a fancy law firm to do his estate plan at the outrageous rate of $420/hour. He exchanged emails with the attorney over the simple question of his daughter's address and that resulted in a $42 bill for what probably took less than a minute and an assistant could've done. CPC Law will always offer an alternative to hourly billing, including for lawsuits.

Helping people and making a difference in their lives, especially in times of stress or crisis.

I don't have much time to do anything but be with my family and sleep. I like to read and have a passion for self-improvement and will play golf once in a while.

I'm a member of the local Rotary Club and serve on the Board of the Chamber of Commerce. I'm also involved in my son's school and recently applied to serve on the Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Central Florida.