A. C. Howard Law

Anna and her team are amazing. Anna is kind and patient with all her Clients and takes her position as their attorney seriously. She is so passionate about her work it is contagious. This is exactly the type of lawyer you want representing you and your family's interests. She does not back down from adversaries and is a true advocate for her Clients. Many years ago, I had the pleasure of watching her (successfully) argue a case to the California Appellate Court. She was amazing and the opinion was published! The Client is that case could not have been more thankful. I have worked with her, hired her as my attorney, hired her to help my sister, and witnessed her work with her Clients. Her Clients (including me and my family) are always appreciative of the work she does. Highly recommend!

My husband and I filed a complaint with the California BAR about Anna C. Howard at AC Howard Law firm in Carlsbad. Anna is incredibly unprofessional, and her incompetency cost us from owning/occupying a home in a very inflated real estate market. Do not hire her firm or her. The staff are very rude as well. Be prepared to be told Anna is away repeatedly. Why would anyone hire Anna for probate or estate and wills matters if she doesn't even know the fundamental laws of California real estate and the foreclosure process? They're all interrelated. All we requested from Anna was to inform her client to give access to a real estate appraiser to open the door of the foreclosed home that was in the possession of her client so 1) we could get a home loan from the bank requiring the home appraisal and we could pay the bank's trustee within the 30-day deadline 2) Anna's client could benefit from the overage of at least $440,000 at the trustee sale. As a result of Anna not returning calls in a timely manner, her client only received an overage of approximately $370,000. Anna cost her client $70,000. I trust her client, a 29-year-old, divorced single mother could have used it. Anna never returned our phone calls. The only time she did bother to talk to us was when she grabbed the phone from her receptionist and screamed at us and threatened a joke of a "Cease and Desist" letter that doesn't even apply to our trying to get a hold of her client and as a courtesy, Anna's office. We didn't have to call Anna at the law firm in the first place. We chose to communicate with her client at first because public documents said she is the court-appointed administrator of the home we were trying to acquire through foreclosure. The time Anna took to threaten us in a template letter, she could have talked to us civilly. Then, we realized we had to hire a real estate attorney at $2500 just so he could talk to Anna about opening the door for the home appraisal. Attorneys give each other professional courtesy. Anna did not give our attorney courtesy until the very few last days of the trustee's deadline for receiving our purchase funds. It was too late. By the time our attorney, an expert in real estate and a law professor on real estate, had one phone call with Anna, he learned that she was suffering from her own misunderstanding of applicable foreclosure law, erroneously believing her client does not have authority over the property. Anna used zero legal analysis, and has no openness to hearing the rules; she just flatly says her legal analysis without any review of the law and disagrees hopelessly. Our attorney was a legal expert in real estate and this particular new law allowing us to post sale bid on the trust deed after the trustee sale. Anna and her paralegal didn't even know about the law that passed in 2021 for eligible bidders/owners-occupants to buy a home at a trustee sale. This law can impact estates. Anna's lack of knowledge of basic real estate laws is shocking and questionable. Don't hire her unless you want to waste your time and money. She cost us a home to own and occupy. What will she cost you?

We are beyond satisfied with the results of our work with AC Howard Law. So much so, that we referred two others who were equally pleased to work with Anna & Co. One-stop-shopping - made us feel confident that we were in solid standing with our personal legal matters. A+++

We used Anna's firm for our estate planning. We could not be happier the entire experience. Anna is extremely knowledgeable, thorough, and well organized. She explains everything very clearly and met all of her timelines as promised. We knew what to expect every step of the way. In addition, both Anna and Kaliana are so pleasant and kind. We highly recommend Anna and team!

Horrible communication. Emails and phone calls returned days later. And now she's on leave. Need to find someone more reliable