KEL Attorneys

I paid in full the day I hired them and that was the last day I was able to speak to anyone other than the receptionist. I have called several times in one day only to be sent repeatedly to nameless voicemail boxes. Never has a single phone call been returned. They sent me a letter requesting documents. All the documents requested were attached to the letter! I've sent email after email with no response. I am going to find every place I can to write a review because NO ONE should endure this! It is a waste their money and time. I have two small children and our lives are on hold as we wait for this bankruptcy to finalize and we are nowhere nearer than a year ago! Ugh! Ahhh! They are the worst!

Due to a divorce & under handed works of my ex my home was sold in a foreclosure sale. I found out that my rights as a homeowner were violated because I was never served forclosure notice & had proof I wasn't in the home when I was supposedly served. KEL said there was nothing I could do about it but they could work out a lease agreement for me. $950 they hell hacked me for. I paid & they did nothing. Passed me off to another attorney at the last minute $ I was forced out in 24 hours! They are liars! Con artists! The whole practice should be disbarred!

These people should not be allowed to call them selves"attornies". They take your money and do absolutely NOTHING. I never should have lost my home. I paid cash for my home. $425,000.00. I ended up loosing it on a very small loan. Before they were hired i was already scheduled for a modification loan. They told me to tell them to cancel it and they would take care of it. I begged them for a year to reschedule it. They never did. Ii finally got a paper for a modification loan scheduled 3 weeks after my house was already auctioned off. KEL are nothing but thieves and liars. I begged to talk to an attorney. I finally got a call 2 weeks later by a man "Chris Abrams" who introduced himself as my attorney whom gave me a lot of advice which ended up being the wrong advice. I later found out this person was only a para legal once again. Not an attorney. Please if you are considering kel, DON'T! Do some research 1st. I ended up loosing my home and almost everything i owned. I had no where to go and ended up on the street with 5 chiuhahas. I never thought I would LOOSE my home because I should not have.

I have had all of the same issues as those expressed here. Absolutely no communication, no legal personnel handling my paperwork, fees for services not rendered. I have incurred an unnecessary hardship as a result of them failing to follow through, communicate or act with any due diligence on my case, despite paying for an "emergency" filing. I have recently learned that prior to rebranding as LASAP the three lead attorneys for KEL were reprimanded three times by the Florida Supreme Court. I am going to look into pursuing a legal malpractice suit and I am looking for anyone that would like to be a joint plaintiff.

Whoever heard of a law firm which gives you no updates on your case, when calling... the receptionist is always courteous, (Fort Lauderdale office)... but when she places your call to your attorney... the call goes to voicemail which refers you to his assistant, so then you call the assistant, and the mailbox is full, meanwhile voicemail message left on the attorneys extension, requesting case status updates are never returned, resorting to email and you get no response there either... even copying a partner on the emails you get no response. They got me for initial consultation fee and two months (monthly payments), before I terminated their NON-SERVICES... Several calls and emails requesting some sort of recompense followed--you guessed it: NO RESPONSE!

They scam you, never answer calls or emails, and don't do a damn thing! Every month I got a letter saying my lawyer quite and I was getting a new one! They ended up making me have to walk away from my house and foreclose. I don't know how they aren't in trouble for the way they handle their firm! Now it's the endnof my contract and they're finally calling me and answering emails because they want me to renew my contract, like I want to be treated and talked to like a piece of crap for another year, as well as throw thousands down the drain!

I was going through a divorce and needed to file bankruptcy, at least that's what the attorney said would be a good move for me. So after $1700 and no contact with anyone from the "firm" I missed the due date for the information to be submitted. So frustrating because I would email and call but it took a month for any response. They sure want to find our if a creditor is calling - they send you emails biweekly for that, but if you need questions answered this WILL NOT HAPPEN. Now I'm waiting on a $600 refund that I was told I would get in July! So not only do they take advantage of the situation you are in mentally, they make sure you're worse off than when you started!

I hired KEL after their very nice solicitation phone calls for 4 months. They where very helpful and offered the world. Then I hired them.
Bottom line, I filed a 1.1M$ chapter 7 and expected them to handle everything I had asked and they agreed. I still owe money on dischargeable items that required a little extra paperwork, no problem for their a la carte price menu, they just promised and did nothing. Met a lawyer at my first court date who knew nothing. They continued calling to try and sell additional services before finishing chapter 7.
So after discharge, I asked for an explanation of what happened and what was discharged. They forwarded forms and told me to read them. I demanded a phone call, nothing.
I have decided to hire a new lawyer to reopen and fix issues that where filed incorectly and most likely sue KEL for malpractice.

Stay away, a little reading before hiring them would have steered me clear of these slick operators.

KEL Attorneys lied. We faxed and e-mailed and mailed all our documents from August 2015 to March 2016. Isabella the paralegal lied and she did not forward our documents to Bankruptcy petition.
The Florida consumer protection act had hundreds of calls from debt collectors all cases had median $1000 calls. They paid bonuses to KEL employees not a percentage for us.
TWO weeks, then TWO weeks, then TWO weeks not Bankruptcy petition. We paid $1850 in mid 2015. We are going to sue for negligence and legal malpractice

First let me start by saying that I spent $3000. 00 on a firm that did not do anything to represent me. Never answer my questions the lawyer never ever met with me. When I ask his assistant for information about my case she never asnwer and had always an attituded. The day of the mediation the firm sent some one that didn't even had a clue about my case to top it off the lawyer from the other part ask Kel's attorney why they never answer his calls or emails. The firm should be out if businness. They put up a show as been the best but they don't care for the people. All they want is your money. Do not fall for it. They are the worst firm.The rating should be below zero.

I consulted KEL for bankruptcy and they advised me I qualified, after I paid them $2000 they are now telling me I don't qualify for bankruptcy. So now I am without my savings and my debts. This is unethical, In several emails I mention to them my total debts and my concerned if I qualified and they assured me I did and now they are telling me I don't and are not refunding my money. I wish I would have read the reviews before I hired them. There has to be someone we can contact to report them.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, do some research into a better more helping company. I wish i had done this. KEL LAWYERS are the most rude and unhelpful, people to deal with. No the lawyer that i had to represent me in my case has been bared from practicing law for the next 90 days and per letter revived form Florida Supreme Court, that my case is now being handle by another lawyer that i have never meet are dealt with. Customer service is not a strong point of this firm or backyard company. Paralegals ore rude, When you visit the office, the staff at the customer service area are more in-tuned on there cell phones that helping customers. Phone calls and emails are never returned in a timely matter, and when you do keep ringing in to speak to you lawyer, you are told by the paralegal that you call to much and you have been blocked form calling and he will return your call when his ready. We are the one paying the money,