Metis Law Group, LLP - La Crescenta-Montrose, California

Hannah E.

Zhana and her team were instrumental in helping us reach a resolution for an ongoing mold issue in our apartment. For several years, our building management refused to properly address poor conditions in our apartment that led to recurring mold growth on the walls and our possessions. Thanks to the Metis team, we reached a reasonable settlement. Moreover, as a positive side effect, our building management finally addressed some moisture/humidity issues.

Throughout the entire process, the Metis team was professional, competent, and communicative. We highly recommend them!

Karely Z. (.

Outstanding Service from METIS Law Group

METIS Law Group has handled multiple cases for me, always fighting hard to ensure the best outcomes. Their team is professional, dedicated, and truly cares about their clients. I couldn’t be happier with their service and highly recommend them for anyone seeking top-notch legal representation. Girl power!

Dan B.

Mulled this one over as to how I should approach this, but I've bit my tongue for far too long.

I've known Zhana and Metis Law group for around now 3 years, and in recent discoveries, it has come to my attention how completely mishandled my case was -- but only in hindsight.

I will tackle 3 corners of legal blunders of sorts:

Incompetence
Unprofessionalism
Unethical practice

Allow me to explain:

Incompetence:

Zhana failed to know that my apartment was under rent control. That is literally an establishing baseline procedure to determine not only how to approach any sorta litigation, but also extremely useful come time for settlement negotiation. For such a seasoned attorney she claims to be, I don't understand how should could fail something so fundamental. Boggles my mind. When confronting her on the issue, she deflected; passing it off with doing me a solid 'no good deed goes unpunished' instead of taking any sorta responsibility. This would be like a proclaimed scientist unable to point out Hydrogen on the periodic table. This would be like a personal injury attorney settling a case before retaining the at-fault parties insurance.

Doesn't know important aspects of the law. She was blissfully ignorant in the procedures for a no-fault eviction, especially in the necessary right of return paperwork that must be filled 30 days onset of displacement. For someone who advertises as a tenant and eviction attorney, that's 50 percent true. Get this, she claimed ignorance for the law. 'How do I know what the state law is?' I'm representing you on habitability only. Yeah. Okay. But in this case they were kinda conjoined as one followed the other. Any reasonable/competent attorney would have been able to properly counsel on this issue.

And if the previous was bad, this was worse. Possibly malpractice.

Unprofessionalism: I suspect the incompetency is an outgrowth of caseload mismanagement. This is pure speculation, but I think her firm takes in way too many clients per year and they're legally spread thin.

Why do I believe that?

In many instances, it takes an absurd amount of time to respond to clients email. In a couple of instances, it took over 20 days time specifically for me. In other instances, the emails were just ignored completely.

Unethical practice: In the late early to middle stages of my case, Zhana emailed me demanding the circumspection of emails I sent. This wasn't an informal request, she literally wanted me to sign it as if it's a legally binding contract. Who does this?

This was grotesque and inappropriate.

But you know what else is inappropriate? Her firm not doing their due-diligence/homework and knowing my unit was under rent-control. Maybe I didn't email enough questions apparently.

In light of all the f-ups, plus the fact I was irreputably damaged as a result of her incompetence, the 45 percent take from my settlement is borderline usury.

Zhana, if you're reading this, I am filing a bar complaint. Your dismissive attitude and snide remarks I shall not forget.

Rosalyn S.

Waste of time. Sandra Mitchell to explain my case and ask me to provide her information in which I did. Then a few weeks later I spoke to her over the phone to provide her more information. Over the course of a few weeks, periodically Sandra would ask me to send her more information and then out of the blue I was told they could not take my case. They gave me no explanation on why they could not accept my case and even when I had a family member reach out to Sandra to get a reason she refuse to provide one. I honestly think this firm is incompetent and lacks professional standards.

Niusha A.

Metis law group took my case when I was devastated and had lost hope. My landlord put me through a lot. Metis Law is one of the best law firms I have worked with. The lawyers and all the employees of the firm truly care and they are very professional.

My previous attorney dropped my case due to my landlord not having insurance on the building which wasn’t the case... I had lost hope but I suddenly got lucky and got referred to Metis Law.

They are helpful, caring, and they make the process easy. My case just got settled not too long ago, and I could not be happier!!

Thank you for all you have done.

Anashe P.

Metis Law has been so helpful to me and my family! They agreed to help us during a time where we were told there was zero hope in our renovation eviction case! Zhana and her team were able to succeed in getting us exactly what we needed. Metis law is the way to go no doubt!

Nadine F.

The metis law group is the place to call, the lawyer who took my case her name was Zhana she was so very nice informative and patient with us, she made sure to explain the process and worked very hard for us regarding our case. The office staff were the best there customer service can't be beat and they were very helpful and help us relay our concerns and questions. If you need someone to fight for you then call Metis law group for representation so will not be disappointed.

Grant L.

The Metis Law Group has the best tenant/landlord attorneys in the industry. This process was very new to me as this was the first time pursuing legal action towards my old landlord. Their team went above and beyond explaining to me the legal process, timeline, and what to expect for my case. They were able to get us a settlement in pre-litigation, which goes to show how well they are able to negotiate and stand their ground in the best interest of the client. I strongly recommend Metis! Definitely going to be referring them to all my family and friends. They’re a lovely team!