Spectrum Legal Group

We hired Steve Liosi and I wish I would have read the negative reviews before.
They are true, once he gets the money he does nothing. He did not even serve the papers to courtroom on time. The other party we were in litigation did not even have a lawyer and we who had a lawyers looked like fools. How is it that you can hire this supposedly hot shot lawyer and he fails to file the paper work to court. The judge even said to us this is your lawsuit and you have no papers. He also promised to be a hard ass but looked like a dog with his tail between his legs. We did not win because the judge did not know what we wanted or what our case was about. It was horrible to spend so much money and have such gross negligence on the part of your lawyer. Please do not waste your time with this group. They do not return calls just take your money and ignore you after.

I retained Stephen Liosi to draft an agreement for me and possibly represent me if the need arose. Stephen was objective in his analysis, sympathetic and ultimately very helpful. I think what helped was that I clearly explained what I wanted, gave him all the facts to work from and from there he laid out the options logically. His counsel was appreciated. His rates were reasonable. I had no problems communicating with him and he was prompt in returning all calls.

Don’t waste your money on his frim. I should have done my research before working with him. He has no patience. Wants to do little work for the money. And he thinks he is all that. NOT

Mr. Liosi is smart, dedicated, no BS or over promising attorney. Few attorneys have been practicing law in such a special area for so many years and still succeed as he does.
I have read all the reviews of Mr. Liosi and at least half are by non-​clients that left a poor review. This doesn’t seem fair to me so I would like to leave my review. Mr. Liosi has a realistic understanding of the law and doesn’t overpromise. Family law is an emotional area of law where nobody wins even if the attorney accomplished what he was hired to do. They are not to be shoulders to cry on, they make the tough decisions to get the case to best point possible.
As a professional he is diligent in his efforts on behalf of his client’s that is often not recognized because so much is done behind the scenes. Attorney’s are used to being the whipping post of their clients but it should not come at the expense of posting negative reviews on Unilocal without being fully informed. Just remember if your are in a family battle, you created the mess the attorney did not. You could have resolved it amicably but did not. Liosi will provide you with a fair assessment and do the job he was hired to do.

I asked a few of my attorney contacts for a law firm specializing in family law to help out my neighbor who was getting married. I gave him a list of 10 recommendations. As his bad luck would have it, Liosi & Padgett was the firm closest to his work so he gave them a call and proceeded to hire them. It all went downhill after their initial consult when they tendered their retainer. I actually thought the client was exaggerating about the type of language Mr. Liosi was using… But when he pulled up his emails and I saw the unprofessional personal attacks that Mr. Liosi was making just because the clients wanted to add certain clauses to the contract, MY JAW HIT THE FLOOR. I am not shocked at all by these other reviews. I almost feel partially responsible for his experience as I passed on their contact information based on personal recommendations… I should’ve taken the time to review all the contacts and narrowed down the list before passing them on but there is a bright side here… Unlike the other Unilocalers, he was able to get the retainer fee back.

I paid my flat retainer fee to Stephen Liosi and found out about these reviews. I was hoping that these negative reviews were NOT true. I was winning my case but as soon as Stephen Liosi substituted himself to my case nothing got done. He only worked through exchanging texts with me. No legal paper work except his substitution paper. He even asked opposing legal counsel to delay the work!!! Yep! Just like others said, he withdrew himself on a day of pre-​trial. DO NOT HIRE HIM. He will take your retainer and won’t work.

I made the mistake of hiring Stephen Liosi to represent me in a contempt case and divorce case. I expressed to Stephen Liosi that I had to sell my car in order to pay his retainer. Stephen Liosi cashed the check immediately and did nothing towards my case for months. I told him to refund my money, because he was not proactive with my case and I needed to get a new attorney. Mr. Liosi did not refund my money. He waited until the day of my court hearing and asked the judge to release him from my case. Once the judge released Mr. Liosi, he ran out of the courtroom and to date he still has my retainer and my file without having done anything to help my case. I have filed a formal complaint with the California State Bar Association and I am waiting to receive a refund from them. Mr Liosi has shown himself to be a conartist instead of an attorney. He is very dishonest, deceitful and unethical. I would advise anyone not to hire this attorney unless they are looking to get robbed. Mr. Liosi should have his license to practice law removed at once, because I am sure I am not the only person he has mislead and run off with with their money and file.

We hired this company to create a prenuptial agreement and ended up regretting it very much. Our initial phone conversation went well and we were explained a lot of details about what the agreement would look like, and what we wanted to have in it. We were presented with the first draft and we had a lot of questions. A few things weren’t the way we wanted them, and the owner of this company was very shocked and bothered that we had questions.
He was very rude and we learned quickly that he didnt care about us and what we wanted to have protected in the agreement. He thought we were just being difficult on purpose. After pulling teeth to get 15 minutes of his time on the phone he sent us a second draft, which we brought into their office to have a notary that worked there do the signing. The notary didn’t know what to do with the form he created either, and we brought the owner in the room to explain. He didn’t even introduce himself to us, he just sat down and complained that we were being difficult and he has never had a customer like us. We told him we didnt want to sign anything unless we understood it. We hired him to create an agreement that we both understand. That’s the service that was suppose to be provided, and he didn’t seem to comprehend that.
We asked to just cancel the whole transaction which he agreed to do. He gave us a written and signed memo that he would refund our credit cards and then left the room. We wanted to know why he couldn’t credit the cards right in front of us with an actual receipt so we walked down the hall and asked his wife, co-​owner, if she could do it. She wanted nothing to do with us and threatened to call the police if we didnt leave. The next day the owner emailed us and said he no longer wanted to credit us back the fee, because he already did most of the work. They agreed to credit us, and then decided not to. How can anyone trust a lawyer like that? We had to file a claim with our credit card company to get them to credit us.
Overall, the owners of this company are very rude, disrespectful and will treat you like a number. They were hired to create a contract for us that they never saw through to the end. They promised a refund and then admitted that he never intended to, he just wanted us to leave so he can steal our money. I wouldn’t trust them with anything. They have no passion for what they do, its just work, and if you have questions they wont help you because they think legal jargon is obviously and everyone should already know what things mean.