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  San Diego Employment Attorneys Group

  2878 Camino Del Rio S Ste 168 San Diego, CA 92108-3872

  
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  San Diego Employment Attorneys Group

  701 Palomar Airport Rd Ste 300 Carlsbad, CA 92011-1028

  
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  San Diego Employment Attorneys Group

  12707 High Bluff Dr Ste 200 San Diego, CA 92130-2037

  

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• Initial Complaint

  Date:04/12/2023

  Type:Order Issues
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  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

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  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

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  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

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  On 10/20/2021 I hired the San Diego Employment Attorneys Group to help me file an EEO complaint against my employer alleging workplace discrimination. They I signed an agreement and paid $3,500 initially. Then on 2/16/2022 they had me sign a second agreement to further represent me and asked me to pay an additional $5,000. When I reached out to them on 4/5/2023 to notify them that my hearing had been scheduled, they told me they no longer represent me unless I sign another agreement and pay an additional $5,000, plus they will attach a lien to everything I own until all my bills are paid. I told then I will not sign the agreement and I want the $826.63 that remains on my client trust account. Since I informed them that I will not sign the third agreement, they stopped communication and never returned my funds.

  

  Business Response

  Date: 04/14/2023

  This complaint is completely  invalid. The complaining  party hired our law firm last year to handle a specific and limited part of his discrimination complaint against his employer. The written attorney-client agreement clearly stated that we were limited to only that legal work and that if another matter arose,he and the firm would need to enter into a new written attorney-client agreement, and he would need to provide a new agreed upon monetary retainer before we would have that new responsibility, Recently,a new matter arose (an administrative trial before an EEOC judge). Recognizing the excellent legal work which we had done for him in the past,he asked us to handle the administrative trial. So,we sent him an attorney-client agreement for the administrative trial and requested that he pay a $5,000 retainer,which is our standard retainer for an administrative trial. He refused to sign the agreement and refused to pay the full $5000. So we went our separate ways. His other complaints are also invalid. Within 48 hours of his request that his small retainer balance be returned to him,we phoned him and asked if he would like to pick it up at our offices. He asked us to mail it to him,which we did that day. As far as communicating with him, our managing attorney returned his call and had a phone conversation with him when he first complained about paying a new retainer. During the call,we explained why he needed to sign an agreement for the new legal work and pay the new retainer. As far as emails,the only one from him that our managing agent has seen is the one in which he told us that he would not be retaining us for the administrative trial,and we responded to that by sending him a closure letter. Again,his complaint is completely invalid.