Law Office Of Melissa A Fair

Melissa recently helped me through a very tense tenant issue. Her knowledge of every detail and nuance of the law gave me a great deal of confidence in a positive resolution. I'm happy to say that everything went exactly as she said it would. I set up a phone consultation and received prompt, accurate advice and had complete confidence in having her handle the situation. If you have a landlord-tenant issue, you need to call Melissa.

DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR YOUR MONEY!!! I found this attorney's website and suggested my friend (a senior disabled widow) consult with her regarding an eviction action. I arranged the initial interview for $99 via her website and paid for it so my friend (who is quite shaken up by the eviction notice) could concentrate on explaining the issues surrounding her case (which are many). My thinking was that if the initial consultation was going well, we'd simply pay for more time. Backstory...My friend has been an excellent tenant of 24 years in a pricey building in Sherman Oaks. Her landlord lives out-of-state with his partner. I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure that a landlord's not allowed to make a copy of the most recent fully-executed lease (which was signed by both parties), substantially alter key terms in the copy of the properly-executed lease to create another "fake" lease (one that says more monthly rent is being collected by the landlord for a longer term than it states in the real lease), THEN take the tenant's signature page from the lease the tenant actually signed, attach it to the new "fake" lease and submit it to a lender for a loan...which the landlord was approved for and for which the landlord received over $150K for his efforts! The tenant never knew about any of this until recently. And that's just a tip of the iceberg of shenanigans this landlord has done (and is continuing to do to my friend, things like attempted renter's insurance fraud). The lease thing sounds like senior financial abuse and mortgage fraud to me. But, what do I know, I'm just a self-employed USC grad who realized my friend had reached the point where she needed to present our proof and hire a good attorney. It's too bad we thought that attorney might be Marsh. I sincerely hope this attorney was just having a really, Really, REALLY bad day and the way she acted on our call is not the way she is to everyone on the daily. Yeesch! Here's what happened... Marsh called. My friend and I greeted her. My friend got tongue-tied trying to explain what was going on. She's scared. She's recently found out about what this landlord's been doing behind her back but she doesn't know what she hasn't found out about yet that he's possibly involved her in without her knowledge. She didn't know where to start so she kept trying to start over. She was clearly overwhelmed. Instead of realizing that and trying to calm her down, Marsh's responses were short and impatient. That shook up my friend even more. She asked to hand the phone off to me to continue the conversation. That seemed to make Marsh even more impatient. I got the phone and started to explain but didn't get very far before Marsh just tossed out a couple of suggestions of what to do with the "fake" lease and ended the call by saying she would be refunding my money. All this happened in a matter of moments. The look on my friend's face was confusion mixed with complete deflation. She felt she'd essentially been "dismissed". This attorney's manner was off-the-chain inappropriate. She knew she was talking to a senior because my friend started off the call by telling her how old she was. I'm so thoroughly disgusted at what happened that I don't care how amazing her website is, I would NEVER recommend this attorney to anyone for anything EVER. In fact, I'd encourage her to ask her webmaster to add a Disclaimer to her website, "If you're a victim over the age of 65, please call elsewhere. I'm not interested." I really wanted to leave NO stars but the post wouldn't have been published.

I am also an attorney in California and while I did not know Melissa personally previously, I contacted here to discuss an important legal topic. She was gracious enough to return my initial voicemail, and we ended up chatting for almost 30 minutes. Melissa is incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to the law, but also the practical application of the law. I cannot recommend her enough. She is a professional...she is nice...and she is fun to talk to!

Very Informative and gave great referrals during a crisis.

Called for information to retain her services and what a poor and lack of customer service she gave.