Nathan Ganapathi was my attorney for 2 1/2 years: from March 2015 - October 2017. I had cause to…read moreterminate the agreement and afterwards, I hired another attorney who counseled me to file a professional negligence claim against him. Nathan Ganapathi emotionally and mentally abused me, blackmailed me for money, carried out fraud and malfeasance during his representation of me and my family, and ultimately betrayed us. Mr. Ganapathi entered the Supreme Court on my behalf after I spent hours compiling my affidavit and tens of thousands of dollars. I won two victories-the ability to appeal two former provincial court decisions. Not long afterwards, without my knowledge or consent, he secretly filed a request to the Court that would cancel my awards. He claimed that they were no longer relevant, so the Court canceled them. Therefore, I lost the ability to have my appeals heard. Nathan Ganapathi's actions nullified the pleadings that had cost my family tens of thousands of dollars-he deliberately sabotaged my appeal hearings and hid it from me. I didn't learn of his malfeasance until 2019. In 2016, I had cause to sue the Province and Mr. Ganapathi agreed to represent me. At the time, the Law Society of B.C. had initiated disciplinary proceedings against him, which later resulted in the suspension of his practice for a specified time. Mr. Ganapathi told me that he had a situation arise wherein he had to retain an attorney, but he didn't specify the details. Had he informed me, I would not have allowed him to represent my civil claim; because when he filed the pleadings against the Province he omitted a legal basis (no legal claim can be filed without one). This was elementary and as a senior attorney he knew this was fundamental. The Provincial attorneys asked him to correct his pleadings, but he would not. Mr. Ganapathi's willful negligence cost me my suit against the Province. I terminated the agreement with him. At that point I had paid him roughly $200,000.00; although he claimed that I owed him more. I hired another attorney to recover the civil claim, but due to Mr. Ganapathi's refusal to relinquish the file to us and the fact that he withheld it for a prolonged amount of time, the Court dismissed the claim and I lost tens of thousands of dollars in attorney's fees. https://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/about-us/news-and-publications/news/2021/law-society-suspends-vancouver-lawyer-nathan-sutha/ I filed a negligence claim against Mr. Ganapathi. He in turn, retained an attorney with a known reputation for refusing to answer opposing counsel's correspondence-for giving the silent treatment, and for prolonging proceedings. The law requires attorneys to act in good faith and to seek resolutions that are timely; especially to settle disputes out of court. Instead, his lawyer refused to resolve the dispute and went radio silent. According to Nathan Ganapathi's instructions, his attorney presented me with a document that was openly hostile and threatening-he wanted me to drop the claim against him and agreed to not charge me court costs. I didn't sign it. To date, there is no resolution. I do not recommend this law firm to anyone, especially when they are vulnerable.

worst than MEDIOCRE service. I arrived at this firm in early October 2017 requesting guidance and…read morehelp with my family case. they promised they would help me and told me that my case was a good one to win. they asked me for a retained amount which I willingly paid and they started to work. Days, weeks months went through and if I didn't reach out to them to ask what was the next step, I didn't have any follow up from them. The only communication was phone calls and emails letting me know that they were working on my case and they were waiting for the other party to negotiate, and OF COURSE to send me the new balance I owed them from the emails and phone calls that didn't accomplish anything in my case, I dealt with them for more than 7 months to get ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but a huge debt in their fees, more than double of the initial retainer fee. Last communication I had with them was in early December 2017. Finally, tired and frustrated to not receive an answer to my questions and seeing no progress in my case, I hired another firm, a well-known firm that at the beginning I didn't want to hire because I thought it would be more expensive. However, in less than 1month they collected all the information by themselves, contacted the other party lawyer and winning my case getting all the requests I claimed in the agreement for LESS THAN the initial retainer Ganapathi law firm charged me to accomplish NOTHING... The funny thing is that after I wrote an online review, I was contacted by them again to ask me to follow up with my case, after 4 months without hearing from them. Mr. Ganapathi asked me to rephrase my review and he was willing to review my case. I agreed, I honored my word and I'm still waiting for him to do the same. YOU MAKE YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS AND TAKE YOUR OWN RISK.