if you want to lose everything you ever had, & everything you're ever going to have, hire geoffrey steele.
i wish i had known that i had four years during which i could have sued him, bx i most certainly would have.
i hired him MONTHS before i was illegally evicted. i spent months paying the taxi to get to a fax machine, faxing & overnight mailing him necessary documents & information documenting numerous instances of harassment, which i could have proved in court. geoffrey steele didnt even do the most basic simple required paperwork...he didnt even do a tiny bit of research on eviction law in oakland california.! i did.!
& he lied to me, saying that he had indeed filed the paperwork.
later--when the sheriffs came, to my shock & dismay, to change the locks on the live/work space in which i'd been living for 19 years--he admitted that he had not.."bx i didnt have to." YES HE DID HAVE TO.
not only was the eviction retaliatory, but i had documented numerous provable instances of harassment--each one would have been punishable separately, with fines. i doubt he even read the paperwork i sent him.
geoffrey steele spoke to my sister about my case, when she called him after learning from someone else in my family that he was my attorney. that sister hates me, & lied to him, & he took her word over mine...saying that he could never put me on the stand after hearing what she had to say about me. that sister is a malignant narcissist, to whom i havent spoken in years, & who would do anything she could to harm me as much as possible. "sorry...i'm gonna have to take her word for it."
huh.? what right did he have to even discuss my case with anyone...just bx they called & pretended to have my best interest in mind.?!! how dare he have been so unethical to have done so.?!!
i lost my entire life's work...hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of my art, as well as most everything in my studio necessary to make more work, as well as a great deal of my furniture, clothing, appliances, etc.
i was 59 at the time. i am now 65 & live in utter poverty, at the mercy of an abusive estranged husband & am disabled.
an advocate for the elderly.?!! like hell he is.! read more