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I am posting this complaint against RONALD M.CANTER a Worker's Comp attorney practicing in Los Angeles. My case is current since July 2003 when I met and attained Mr. Canter after I was forced off the job by my maniacal employer under fraudulent reasons. I was referred to Mr. Canter through Prepaid Legal. Little did I know this attorney would go on to do his best to sabotage my case by his actions and his non-actions.
The first thing that was a red flag was the fact that upon meeting Mr. Canter he refused to view extremely important information I had to show him in our initial meeting. Next he referred me to MANAGEDMED for psychological testing/ physical therapy which turned out to be a total nightmare and what happened to me there turned out to be worse than what happened to me on my job.Thank You Mr. Canter.
I had numerous depositions over the 3 year period in which Mr. Canter was never prepared for by purposely not bringing my file or medical file (then blaming others)and which he allowed the defense attorney to badger me with the exact same questions each depo while flat out REFUSING to subpena the most important document in the case that would have exonerated my name against my employer's allegations. The whole time Mr. Canter acted as if he was employed by the Defense or that the goal was to get me to settle for next to nothing for a benefit to him.
My biggest complaint against Mr. Canter is his wholehearted lack of communication. Ive tried numerous times and a multitude of ways to attempt a meeting with him by phone, regular mail, certified mail,email, you name it- they all went unanswered. He would allow me 10 minutes or less to speak my concerns to him before the depos but still would never take anything I had to share with him into any consideration whatsoever! At my last depo (2/07) I provided Mr. Canter a 2 page detailed list of my concerns and grievances against him to which he responded to by ordering a petition to withdraw from my case. He falsely states that it is due to "the conduct of my client" When I contacted him via email for an explanation of what he meant exactly by my "conduct"- again no response whatsoever followed by a letter sent to me stating that a "Mandatory Settlement Conference" had been scheduled for May 2007. Upon the date of the conference, to which Mr. Canter was late, I actually got to observe Mr. Canter and the Defense Attorney again "pal around" together before he finally approached me stating that "The Board" had misplaced my file. Right. Based on what I saw I have reason to believe that the Defense Attorney obtained my file before Mr. Canter arrived and placed it out of sight since the case files are out in the open for pickup and review for the attorneys at the Court.
I was instructed to request to speak with the Judge as I formally was prepared to have Mr. Canter removed from the case. He blocked me from speaking to the judge and went in himself, had himself removed from the case-so now he is under the impression that he is no longer responsible for his mis actions against me. Wrong. There was no intention of Mr Canter Settling my case. His actions clearly indicate that he was working with the defense to frustrate me out of y case and/or settlement.
I was extremely relieved to know that I am not the only client with similar complaints. I went online and found two other individuals who have filed almost IDENTICAL COMPLAINTS against Mr. Canter.
(The are easy to locate by doing a Yahoo & Google search on Ronald M. Canter)
The fact that this man is still practicing Law is a travesty of Justice! He has hurt alot of clients by assuming that he can take advantage of people that are unfamiliar with the laws he as an attorney can manipulate to his advantage- Until he is finally correctly reprimanded and/or no longer scamming clients Im glad there are websites like these that can shift the power back to the disadvantaged. It does however indicate how corrupt the system in which he works is by allowing him to continue to do this to people.
This is Damion Thompson. Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who was brave enough to respond on my post about Mr. Canter. Standing against injustice is frowned upon more often than encouraged but the number of individuals that have had a similar occurances with Mr. Canter cant all be wrong... I was not at all surprised by Mr Canter's attempt to villify me in the wake of exposing his actions. He did the exact same thing the defendant has done and has been doing since the before the onset of this case. Mr. Canter's response clearly warrants that I SHOW where he failed while representing me and you can judge for yourself...The only piece of documentation missing from this (now 9 years) paper trail is the one Mr. Canter (along with the defendant and every attorney that has been attached to this case) refused to produce. Mr. Canter knowingly supported the prolonging of my case knowing the Defense could not produce proper evidence against me in their allegations, and when I continued to demand this information he plotted with the Defense Atty to lose my complete file and remove himself from the case. I found my file immediately after...it was in Mr. Canter's office. Feel Free to continue to respond on this post regarding the unethical actions of this Attorney. Showing is better than telling.
Here is what you can expect from Mr. Canter
Mr. Canter was repeatedly asked to produce a specific piece of documentation from the defense which he failed to do so in a four year period while he was my attorney. After that deposition on Feb 2007 he mailed documentation to me regarding a "MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE." This was a fraudulent meeting devised by Mr. Canter to have himself removed from the case when he realized that I knew he would never produce this document-which ultimately shows who he was really working for and or protecting.
Mr. Canter insists that he represented me in a competent manner. Take a look at the documents below. Would you feel this is competency?
loo0k at scam report site.
Mr Canter is a first class jerk. I hope he gets what's coming to him.
this Guy Is A [censored]! I Recently Had Filled An Online Free Case evaluation And Ron Is The One WhoContacted Me. Funny Thing Is That When He Started asking Questions I Smelled Something Fishy Abou Him, One thing That I Noticed Is That He ContacteD Me Directly When Most Have Their Assistant Or Secretary Call. I Asked My Self This, Guy Must Be Cheap But I Knew ThereWas Something Not Good About Him. Told My Friend AboutIt And Said It Was Me Always Thinking To MucH, So The Next Day I Decide To Google HisAddress Since I Forgot And TThe First ThingS That popped Out Were CLAIMS.meMe Laugh toTo Know That iI waWas Right. Didn't Go ToThe Appointment So He Gives Me A Call "Private" And He Jyst Goes Off ON Me And The [censored] Still Wants Me To ReSchedule. Thanks To Google It Gas Helped Alot Of Us Watchout For Scanners Like This. I Would Suggest Looking A Mark Edelsteins Law FIrm.
I have been in the field of Workers' Compensation for a very long time and find a lot of this complaints about Mr. Canter to be legitimate, but at the same time they all can not be put on the Attorney. I have never worked for Mr. Canter, nor do i know him, but being in this field i have been exposed to many many injured workers' that complain about how horrible things in Workers' Comp are and pin it on the Attorney. If you all want to complain, why dont you pay attention next time during voting season? While you complain about Applicant Attorneys, Work Comp Insurance Carriers are getting richer and its not because of Attorneys like Mr. Canter, but because Workers' Comp keeps changing against injured workers and that is thanks to our California Representatives. Why do you complain that no benefits are being paid ? why do you complain that a settlement was not what you expected? why do you complain ? In case you have not noticed the law makes your attorney send you to Medical Provider Network full of incompetent Doctors. The law makes your Attorney only enforce what this incompetent Doctor recommends and not what you wish you could get. Vocational Rehabilitation is way gone now and no on wonders why and who's fault it was? TTD (biweekly benefits) have decreased and now are paid a maximum of only 104 weeks, any care to ask why and who's fault it is? even if your Doctor recommends treatment it is still being authorized or denied by Utilization Review (Insurance Carriers medical authorization department) any care to ask why it has to be sent there? who's fault it is? many times this requests for treatment, medications and even surgery is denied by a nurse or a physician of the wrong specialty, but nevertheless, the law enforces there denial, do you care who's fault it is and why? It is much easier to blame your Attorney for what does not happen, then it is to look into the true problem and look for a resolution!
My case was just settled by Mr. Canter, after being represented by him for approx. 1 1/2 years and fortunately, i had absolutely no complaints towards him or his staff. Whenever he was not able to return my calls, he would have his staff call me back and they were always able to help me and whenever they couldn't, Mr. Canter himself would call and to my surprise, he even called me a few times over the weekend. I am commenting on this complaint because Mr. Canter has helped me out greatly and also some friends i have referred him and none of us had any complaints. I honestly think some people want things done a certain way, regardless of what the facts of there complaints are.
His employees and paralegals methods of operation is predictable, unethical, and very unprofessional. After being hung up on over 10 times today and being called a bitter ### by the angry unprofessional woman that answers the phone was the last straw. I have been calling his office since last Friday asking to speak with him and still 5 days later I have received no response, sent an email today an no response. I have been yelled at, disrespected and treated like I am incompetent and uneducated. I sincerely wish I had never retained Ronald M. Canter as my attorney, mainly due to how horrible his staff is to deal with and the fact that nothing ever gets done and no one ever knows what going on. I am just a 15% pay check and I do believe that he does side with the defense and will try to milk every cent he can out of each and every case. My next step will be filing a formal complaint against his office for harassment, discrimination and unethical conduct of a law practice with the State Bar of California. If anyone is looking to retain a workers comp attorney do not retain Ronald M. Canter, he and his office are full of promises they can't and won't deliver. Also, after reading his reply to one of the above complaints I feel it my duty to say that I am White and my complaint against his office has nothing to do with race or how I manage my life or personal affairs. I hired him to protect me against the workers comp insurance company but now feel that he is working against me and helping the defense. I feel very betrayed by his and his actions or lack thereof and his by his disgruntled and ignorant employees. Being an injured employee is horrible and dealing with workers comp is difficult and very frustrating but to add an attorney and his staff that ignore and dismiss your concerns and then just hang up on you, yell at you and treat you like a burden just makes the whole process even more horrible. I have much compassion for anyone going through a workers comp case and WARN everyone to really take a good look at all reviews of Ronald M. Canter Attorney at Law before retaining his services.
Stay away from this inept lawyer. Never sign up with any attorney nor callous, unprofessional as this one IS. I suggest do a search under any attorney you are checking. Stay away from the free web sites for attorneys. Workers Comp attorneys are on a % basis only. If visit an attorney, have a discussion only. Then go home, think about it, do internet searches then decide. A lot of complaints about this one gets removed by a contracted firm to do so. Or gets lost in New complaints. Some of the remarks here say later that the issue got resolved. But search more and find there is a new complaint that got filed somewhere else in this board re-affirming the complaint. Seems this so called attorney is well versed in conning people. When an attorney talks more about himself than what WC is all about, LEAVE.
The question I have is does he work for me or the defense? Well, I see now this is not a one time incident. I had an almost identical experience as the other clients, or victims rather. This is the only attorney I have seen that negotiates and settlement goes lower and lower by the minute. It quickly became obvious to me that he was in some agreement with the other side. Lie after lie was told about how much I was owed and for what. According to him and the workers comp insurance companies atty unless I was wheelchair bound for life no case would ever settle for more than one thousand dollars. Apparently the settlement has already been satisfied when you were paid the weekly benefit. There is no monies to be paid only weekly benefit and I should be grateful I had gotten some of that money. That is the new law he said in agreement with opposing atty. There is the ultimate judge however that we all face one day. Why don't all of us that feel wronged here get together and see about doing our complaints to the right authority. This would spare other people from going down the same road. Thanks and bless all of you. I wish you the very best of luck fixing your case.
I would not refer Ron Canter services to anyone . My worker's comp case has been pending for 12 years .Mr. Canter has been involved for the has 8 years during which I have made contact with him personally, "3 TIMES" . I feel that this is unsatisfactory legal consultation if you could call it that .