- Report: #648253
Complaint Review: Carol Sternberg
| Carol Sternberg 16530 Ventura Boulevard Encino, CA 91436 (818) 907
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Carol Sternberg Law offices of Carol Sternberg The attorney makes up fake hours and bills for them, carol is a fraud and a scam who has Lost her licence in the past , Internet
*Consumer Comment: All attorneys are whacked?? No - but Carol Sternberg is
*Consumer Comment: Trying learn about this attorney. Lot of gripes, with exact same mis-spellings. No details.
*Consumer Comment: Carol Sternberg discussed in Judicial Admonishment
*UPDATE Employee: SHE IS A FRAUD
*UPDATE Employee: I worked for this company
*Author of original report: carol sternberg needs to stop stealing from people
*Author of original report: Carol Sternberg
*Author of original report: Scam artist...Carol Sternberg
*Author of original report: Carol Sternberg
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All attorneys are whacked?? No - but Carol Sternberg is
AUTHOR: Tonja J - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, September 17, 2012
Seriously, are you five years old?
I was told by a reliable source that Carol Sternberg took a retainer from a new client DURING her 30 day suspension, and instead of appearing at the MSC herself, due to being suspended, she arbitrarily sent the most inexperienced person she could - a first year law graduate, who (presumably) was also the cheapest sub she could find.
For Carol, it's all about the money.... who can pay her so that she can, as she says "I can get you a win in front of some judges who are my friends".
She is one of the most corrupt, dishonest, unethical and greedy lawyers I've ever seen in my humble opinion.
She even had the temerity to blame her DEAD husband for stealing from her client trust account. Really?? Who does that??
#2 Consumer Comment
Trying learn about this attorney. Lot of gripes, with exact same mis-spellings. No details.
AUTHOR: nonlawyerfan - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, September 17, 2012
Wait. California is a "Community Property" state...it says here your posting this from Arizona and you paid all your money to prove a house was community property in California ? Where, what 90% of divorce cases give the house to the wife ?
Do you understand how professional services billing structure works ? Like, $100/hour. 1 HOUR Minimum?
Quick phone call = $100. Quick meeting = $100. Etc. I'm not an attorney and I really don't like them.
I do realize the necessity of them in certain instances. And none of those instances are arbitration.
I'm suprised a seasoned member of the bar even bother using a 1 year lawyer as a resource for it. You mean
you hired her 'Firm' to represent you and she rearranged priorities associated with experience ?
Divorce arbitration in California is so known in it's outcome, even dudes that have never been
married know how it turns out. You should be writing about your ex-wife trying to take a house
that for some reason the courts didn't just give her outright.
Good luck man. Throw down some facts of details next time.
#3 Consumer Comment
Carol Sternberg discussed in Judicial Admonishment
AUTHOR: Tonja J - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, August 23, 2012
(find it here: http://cjp.ca.gov/res/docs/public_admon/Friedenthal_DO_4-3-12.pdf)
Neither Carol Sternberg nor her friend Commissioner Alan Friedenthal disclosed their relationship, although they were both obligated to do so.
Carol Sternberg made false statements so many times in her "declarations", in court, and just in general discussions - it never seemed to even a minor issue for her to not tell the truth on anything.
Even in her State Bar proceedings - instead of admitting fault, she chose to place the blame on her poor deceased husband!! That alone speaks as to the state of her moral compass!
I would never, in a million years, recommend anyone to use this attorney. She is the type of attorney that gives them all bad names.
#4 UPDATE Employee
SHE IS A FRAUD
AUTHOR: Joshua B - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
California Bar Journal Discipline Summaries
Summaries from the California Bar Journal are based on discipline orders but are not the official records. Not all discipline
actions have associated CBJ summaries. Copies of official attorney discipline records are available upon request.
July 30, 2009
CAROLINE SUE STERNBERG [#122078], 58, of Encino was suspended for two years, stayed, placed on two years of probation with a 30-day actual suspension and was ordered to take the MPRE within one year. The order
took effect July 30, 2009.The State Bar Court found that Sternberg allowed the balance in her client trust account to drop below the required amount several times. She had received about $39,000 on behalf of her client and after fees and costs were deducted, she should have maintained a balance of $24,854.50 in her trust account.Her husband, who also was her office manager, handled her firms business dealings, and without her knowledge, he used the account to pay personal and business expenses. Sternberg, who was the only authorized signatory on the account, wrote few checks and did not regularly use her trust account or reconcile bank statements.Although the court found much of her clients testimony not believable, it reluctantly found that Sternberg committed acts of moral turpitude by allowing a
misappropriation of funds. She did not intend to do anything wrong but her gross negligence in handling her trust account during this time requires a finding of moral turpitude, wrote bar court Judge Richard Honn.Sternberg has no discipline record, cooperated with the bars investigation and offered extensive testimony about her good character and substantial volunteer work.
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#5 UPDATE Employee
I worked for this company
AUTHOR: judyr345@gmail.com - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, December 29, 2011
#6 Author of original report
carol sternberg needs to stop stealing from people
AUTHOR: Bob jacobs - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, October 07, 2010
#7 Author of original report
Carol Sternberg
AUTHOR: Bob jacobs - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, October 07, 2010
The offense at issue was a mishandling of a Client Trust Account. The entire document can be read here.
Ms. Sternberg is one of the attorneys in what many litigants find to be a group of favored attorneys who seem to get preferential treatment by Commissioner Alan H. Friedenthal of Los Angeles Superior Court. She's practicing without a reinstated license. Do not use her. She's also a lesbian now who's angry at men.
#8 Author of original report
Scam artist...Carol Sternberg
AUTHOR: Bob jacobs - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, October 07, 2010
The offense at issue was a mishandling of a Client Trust Account. The entire document can be read here.
Ms. Sternberg is one of the attorneys in what many litigants find to be a group of favored attorneys who seem to get preferential treatment by Commissioner Alan H. Friedenthal of Los Angeles Superior Court.
#9 Author of original report
Carol Sternberg
AUTHOR: Bob jacobs - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, October 06, 2010
The offense at issue was a mishandling of a Client Trust Account. The entire document can be read here.
Ms. Sternberg is one of the attorneys in what many litigants find to be a group of favored attorneys who seem to get preferential treatment by Commissioner Alan H. Friedenthal of Los Angeles Superior Court.

