James Charlton is the most down to earth Lawyer I have ever met. His sense of humor was very refreshing which made me relax more during our preparation of my trust. Very professional service and had all my requested powers of attorney paperwork prepared in 3 days. All of the staff I met were courteous to my wife and I at all times. I recommend them highly for any estate planning you may need. read more

We would like to raise our hats off to Atty. Rika and her Asst Veronika for a job well done. In a very short period of time they took over our housing eviction issue and did their best with a very good and speedy resolution. we are so thankful for a job well done . It is our pleasure to recommend them for any of your investment housing issues, including eviction etc. Thanks again! read more

James was easy to talk to,explain everything to where we understood .Relaxing Atmosphere

They are such an amazing office to work with. I have been getting help from the office for a year now. They pay attention to details. Very professional, really recommend them read more

Wow these people are amazing hire no other attorney if you go up against Brad or any of them in a court room you will lose .Do not give the other party a chance to retain there services Thank you Brad weeks read more

I can't even begin to describe how UNETHICAL I think this law firm is, to start off I hired them to make me two very over priced Living Trusts! We The People made my daughter a living trust almost exactly like mine for 1/4 the cost! Then like a dummy I paid the firm another $400 to consult with two of their lawyers who were absolute jerks in my opinion, they didn't help me at all, total waste of $400! They claim to be there for you if you ever have questions or concerns, SO UNTRUE, they didn't reply to any of my calls or emails I sent them when I had questions and concerns! Now here's where it gets REALLY BAD, they knew all about my finances from making my Living Trust, so being the "ambulance chasers" I believe they are, they're representing a homeless guy that's claiming he worked for us and they're suing us on his behalf and just taking a commission / % from whatever they're hoping to win for him in court! The guy they're representing has never paid child support for his 3 sons, he's never held a steady job, he's on welfare, he was homeless and we tried to help him by letting him stay in our brand new trailer that he completely ruined btw, because we felt bad for his 3 kids and now they're suing us on his behalf, claiming that we were his employers! We hired that firm 3 separate times, our friends also used them, so I can't imagine anything more unethical than what they're doing to us! If you use them for anything they'll know all your personal business like they know ours and know that we own a house and have money, in my opinion no one should trust a law firm that will represent you one day and then turn around and sue you for someone else after they worked for you! Charles Weeks himself went in front of the judge according to my lawyer, and told the judge that his business with us ended after his firm made our LivIng Trusts, absolutely no sense of loyalty to his repeat clients or to his other clients who referred us to them, thats just GROSS in my opinion absolutely GROSS!!! Is he desperate for money or just has 0 integrity please do yourself a favor and don't find out! read more

Very friendly and informative! Gave me a consult and will be using him when moving forward.

Recently, I hired Carlton Weeks law office to file eviction law sue against my tenant for none payment. The case went four days jury trial, the jury took less than 40 minutes to reach the unanimous verdict. Rikka J. Fountain is excellent attorney. She goes above and beyond to help me to win the case. She is very knowledgeable with good strategies. She spent a lot of time to gather all the details, contacted the witness I provided, and had many discussion with me about how to present the case to the jury, including opening statement, testimony, cross examination, rebuttal exam, and closing argument. She prepared me well to be on the witness stand. She was able to convince the jury that I am a very good landlord and win case 100% I could not ask more and better attorney than Rikka. I highly recommend this law firm, especially Rikka J Fountain to the landlords or property managers, the eviction needs to be filed definitely they are best choice. read more

Do not ever deal with company!! Bunch of losers! They took the money to defend for a renter issue and when renter did not evacuate on the day, he was 2 days late, this people all passed phone to each other when asked to clarify as to why they did not act on time, and did not follow due process, passed phone to each other and last one hung up. Losing Renter 6 months rent and then deal with thus incompetent people like Nicole and her staff!!! my advise...DO NOT USE this Company!!! read more

James Charlton is an awesome attorney and the one thing I can confirm after a friend mentioned it was that he will not try to sell you services that you don't need at all. He really has a lovely manner about him, a great sense of humor, and definitely puts you at your ease. His paralegal Liz was very helpful and a delight to work with, so the overall office experience was great. A definite recommend! read more

As a landlord with many properties I was referred to this office after my long time attorney passed away. I was very nervous to switch to a new attorney. Nicole handled my first eviction and was professional and thorough. The tenant was evicted right away and the house was turned back over to us within 60 days. I was thrilled. The attorney that represented us in court was organized and quick. I was impressed. I recently had to call this office again for help with a tenant based legal problem that I was concerned to handle. Nicole took my call immediately and offered a resolution to my problem. Because of her knowledge I chose to have her handle the problem completely to protect us if there is a future legal issue with the tenant. The fee that they charged was fair and lower then I expected. Thanks Nicole!! Eviction and tenant problems are a very tricky and complex problem. I trust this law office with all my rental legal problems. read more

Thank you Mallory for making this eviction process in less than two months. I was referred to this firm by one of my real estate agents. I own several properties in the AV and this was my first eviction. The tenants were crazy! When I met Mallory she explained the full process of an eviction and always returned my calls. Thank you Mallory for helping me:) Eva- read more

These people were very unprofessional and rude. They hang up on me without explaining the reason for service refusal. They looked at me like a bag of money. I felt like trash after done calling them. I even opened an account to express how I feel. AVOID THEM AT ALL COST! read more

i would sooner deed my rental property over to my tenants, THAN EVER hire Charlton Weeks / AVEviction.com or any of its attorneys, to represent my company in an eviction case EVER AGAIN. CW was hired to represent my company in NOV 2016. My relationship with CW ended in January 2017. My opinion, based upon my two+ months of experiences... the whole of them being terrible. read more

I contacted charlton weeks after having a bad experiance with another firm. I first delt with Mallory and she was direct and to the point. I then spoke with two of the attorneys there Brad and James which took my case and got my lawsuit handled. Now that it is all said and done I couldn't be happier with the results. I will be using them or whoever they recommend for all of my legal needs. Thanks again! You guys are amazing! read more

My folks recommended Mr. Charlton to me for a property issue. I found Mr. Charlton a complete professional. He had answers to all my questions although they were not all the answers I wanted, they were the County of Los Angeles and CA State laws. After such wonderful service with regard to my property issues, I chose to have Mr. Charlton write my Trust. I'm very happy with the Trust and the service I received from every staff member I dealt with. I will highly recommend CharltonWeeks to my family and friends, as well as anyone reading Yelp. read more

I worked with Lisa Doran regarding an employment dispute. She was very honest from the beginning of what I should expect. She was always in constant communication with me keeping me informed of the progress in the case. She did a great job in getting it resolved as quickly as possible. read more

I called and the person who answered the phone was not forthwith. Didn't understand her name and asked for it twice. Still didn't get her name. Explained my need on eviction and she didn't understand every time I stated the need she asked the question over. She put me on hold and told me the person I needed to speak with was not available. That is Nichole. I asked who Mallory was and she said Mallory no longer works there. Based on the reviews and my initial call. I am passing. read more

Very unpleasant experience with an Erik Gundersun. Acted very interested in what I had to say and even had a "contract" for me to sign on our initial consultation...never heard back from him. Very sloppy guy. No class read more

Total rip off! We used this company to evict our tenants and they got evicted but the lawyer didn't get a money judgment!!!!! That means that we can't sue for the back rent on the primary wage earner!!!! A HUGE over site! They won't return our calls. We absolutely do NOT recommend. We got the tenants out but can't go after them for what they owe us because our attorney was too dumb to get a money judgment. NEVER use this company. Unbelievable. This was our first eviction. The attorney was also asking for the wrong amount (we got a judgment on one person, not the other who is the primary wage earner) we had to stop him and show him how to do the math! He almost cost us more than we were paying him. Unbelievably incompetent. Call around and get a better company. read more

AWFUL experience!!!!! UNRESPONSIVE, UNPROFESSIONAL and RUDE!!!!!! I paid ~ $750 for assistance with an eviction. We ended up eating the ~$750 and went to a different law firm because they were so bad. It was all very upsetting. We were never allowed to talk to an attorney directly. We had to go through Mallory (horrible, unprofession and rude person) . Please do yourself a favor and go elsewhere. This is my opinion from dealing with this firm. Good luck to you. I 100% agree with the person that said " AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS"!!!!! read more

I have used Charlton Weeks for decades. My parents used James' services to set up their estate and everything went exactly as it was supposed to so I did the same to set up mine. I've had a few minor legal issues with my business over the years and Brad has been a consummate professional. I sincerely doubt the parties on the other side of the aisle felt the same way and that's a good thing. Highly recommended. read more

I had a mediocre experience with this company. They did successfully evict my tenant, taking about two months, which is an average time. They did wait a few days to file a response one time and another time they charged me an extra $300 to not wait three weeks to file a response to a spurious motion to dismiss. It seems they were in no hurry since they made more money by it being dragged out. Also, some of their staff were extremely rude to me. I will not be returning to them. In addition, once the court case was over, they were extremely unhelpful. I just wanted to get some information from the files so I could send the judgment to a collection agency and they just ignored me after it was over.Total cost was $1,050, which was not worth the services I received. read more

Shady shady shady!!!. We attempted to probate my grandfathers estate with Mr. Brad weeks and he was an awful lawyer. We were referred by my grandfathers property manager/lender whom Brad also represented. After a year of dragging feet and not even filing the probate or disclosing to us what was in our best interest for managing the estate it became clear that his conflicting interest was not in our favor. Brad has now completed the foreclosure process on my grandfathers estate for his other client Slade Lohman of All American Financial services. read more

I used this law firm a couple of times and both times have been great. Eviction was fast and easy without any nasty lawsuits. They will work hard for you not to go to court and waste more money and time. I highly recommend them for your eviction needs. read more

Just read all the negative reviews and you will understand what we went through. Bradley Weeks is rude and uncaring, Just in it for the bucks. read more

I have worked with James and his amazing staff over many, many years on a myriad of trust and probate issues. They are amazingly attentive, efficient and so wonderful to work with at often the most trying times of life. I have referred numerous people to the firm all of whom have expressed their complete satisfaction and gratitude for the referral. Thank you to James, Shelly, Brad and Corrine for their continued amazing work! Marla Tobey read more

Been using them for evictions and other legal services for about 10 years. I will tell you after doing a ton of evictions, you can't find a company that does a better job. They are quick, efficient, honest, and reasonable. My calls and emails are always answered and I get good honest legal advice on a variety of issue's I may encounter (they specialize in a ton of different legal area's). The company has been around for a while and their new office is beautiful. My parent's have used them, now I do, and who knows maybe my kids will use them one day. They have a staff of good attorney's, try them out you can't go wrong. read more

as a landlord facing eviction of a dysfunctional tenant it can be difficult. and costly. I was very satisfied with the representation I received from my attorney Samuel Birdsong. He is very professional and I would recommend him to anyone. read more

Always friendly and available when you need answers to legal questions. James was there to answer my questions when my husband passed away.

My elderly father needed to have a trust drawn up, so I took him to see James Charlton. As my father was hospitalized several times during the process, it took several months before the trust was finalized and signed. During this time, James, as well as his staff, were knowledgeable, responsive, kind and extremely patient! Thank you, James! read more

We used James Charlton to update our trust, which was written 15 years ago by another firm and contained outdated information and confusing paragraphs. In our initial meeting he reviewed the old trust with us, answered our questions, and made recommendations to update the document. After deciding to proceed, we met again with James to give him the needed information. Shortly after, a draft of the trust was e-mailed to us for our review. Our last meeting was to sign and take delivery of the documents, which included the trust, will, and durable powers of attorney - all nicely organized in a professional looking binder. We were totally satisfied with the service of this office. James was very personable and good at providing explanations. Our visits were short and there was no waiting. The office is located in a freeway-close business complex, and is neat and professional. Important to us, his office is a local business and is close to where we live. We are now rest-assured that our trust is in order. We would use James again. read more

This was by far the worst experience I have ever had with an attorney in my life. I have quite a few properties and have worked with many different attorneys practicing all sorts of law. We had hired them to evict a tenant who had not paid rent in some time. First of all they put the case in our property manager's personal name rather then ours (the actual property owner!). This put us in a bad position as when we asked them to correct it we would have had to start the whole process over again from scratch ultimately costing us more time and money already lost. Second they created a deal with the tenants to avoid a jury trial, to actually pay the tenants to leave the property! Even though the tenants had not paid in a couple months! It was crazy. We never authorized this and were mad as hell about this. All they where supposed to do was show up to the initial hearing and set a trial date so we could fight the tenants scam they have going using jury trails to extend the time in the property while they don't pay. We where out of the country at the time and had left them and the property manager these simple instructions to set a trial date as we would fight it ourselves. But they did not do this and instead set up an agreement to pay them to leave! Then we asked to see the agreement they set up with out our permission, they sent us a temple document with our case number entered and wrong dates! It wasn't even signed. It was because of the fact the case was in another persons name we where told we would have to withdraw the entire case and start over costing us double in the fees we had already paid! So we where essentially forced into paying money that we never had authorized or agreed to because they decided we should. We had to send my wife back and forth to their office because of miss information by their rude Para legal. In addition to all of the debacles we caught them in several inaccuracies of their statements and accounts to us. While speaking to their arrogant owner James he hung the phone up on us several times as we where asking questions. If he get's frustrated he simply hangs up the phone on you. This had happened at least 5 times before I told him I was going to the State Bar. He goes on and on about how he makes no money on evictions and tells nonsense stories about why milk is sold at the back of stores in an attempt to evade any responsibility from the mistakes they had made. Rather then providing any type of good service they simply took the money and left us high and dry. Totally UN professional and rude. We actually seriously felt that they where working with the tenant and not us (the one who hired them to evict these squatters!) I would never recommend this firm to anyone. read more

This is the worse firm to work with -- inefficient and unprofessional staff. My agent requested they start eviction, a lady named Nicole called me to get my CC to charge me for the 3-day notice. Notice was NEVER MADE. We ask them to start the eviction process as tenant did not pay, asked for a copy of the Notice and Nicole refuses to provide it to my agent. She REFUSED my phone calls, and would not call me back. I threaten to challenge the CC charge with my bank if I don't get the owner and/or manager to call me back. A Charles calls me and tells me they will refund the money to my agent (I paid on my CC not the agent's) and they don't want to handle the eviction. He admits they made a mistake and never sent the 3-day notice, but was also rude about it. He had a 'so what' attitude. They would have never refunded me the money if I had not demanded proof of the Notice. How unethical and unprofessional for a law firm! Now I wasted 2 weeks and have to start the process all over again. Tenant owes 1 1/2 months of rent. Don't work with these people. Read the negative reviews and you'll see the same thing - they are unprofessional. To the ones who had a good experience years ago, with Mallory, it was probably her and not the firm who was good. Believe she is no longer with the firm; so you won't get that kind of service ever again. Nicole is terrible - arguing with my agent rather than admitting that she made a mistake; refusing to take my calls once she found out who I was. My agent and her firm will certainly never deal with them again!! Roberta read more

This law office doesn't even deserve one star! James Charlton is the rudest man I have EVER dealt with as far as attorneys go. DO NOT use this guy. I answer my phone and he says I CAN'T HELP YOU. No explanation or anything!! I hung up on him. Stay away!! read more

Had the worst experience with them. I agree with all the negative reviews. They don't follow through, make huge oversights, are unorganized, rude, and blame clients for their mistakes. Evictions have taken over 6-8 months, and we get no money judgment. Huge waste of money. There needs to be a better law firm. read more

They where great Nicole was great really helpful they explained everything perfect we received responses fast all around great job

Knowledgeable, courteous, friendly and conscientious. The entire staff was all that and more. Attorney James Charlton walked us through the process and explained everything to us with patience, using client-friendly language. My husband and I much appreciate the firm helping us complete a process that could have been burdensome and confusing. read more

I'm a retired lawyer, so you can imaging how picky I am when I have to hire an attorney. I have so much respect for this law firm that when my folks needed to update their revocable trust, I drove them from the San Fernando Valley to Palmdale. James Charlton found holes in the original trust and revised the entire document. I couldn't be more satisfied. On top of that, these are really nice people, when you're not on the other side of a lawsuit. And that's a huge compliment. read more

hello all, mallory grant has succeeded again as this one was an evasive tenant. it is so nice that we do not have to do anything as they will even serve the 3 day too. using mallory removes this stress and then we move on, fix it up, etc. we have used her for years and it is always a sucess story. read more