Law Offices of David Y Chun

Stay away from this office. He took my money and did not perform what we agreed upon. I was going to take him to small claims court but did not have the energy at the time. If you are being ripped off by him, you should file a complaint with the State Bar. Sooner or later, history shows that his business will suffer as his track record shows he steals money from client.

David Chun Esquire was an absolute pleasure to work with. My wife had an issue with her former employer and we sought counsel from Mr. Chun. During the entire process, he was very thorough and made sure to explain everything clearly. We were extremely pleased with the services he provided and would highly recommend him to anyone who needs counsel regarding employment issues.

He took my money in late 2002 and I got nothing from him except my file back. He is the attorney you want to stay away from. He charged me a $ 2,000 retainer to represent me in an upcoming administration mediation. He wound up claiming he used it up, and then dropping my case. I had specifically asked him not to exceed 10 hours including the representation at the mediation. It wasn’t like something he had to prepare weeks for since it was less than two weeks away. He lied and said he didn’t promise to work less than 10 hours because he wanted to revert to a contingency arrangement where he gets over 30%. I didn’t want to do that because I had the whole case laid out for him since I’m an attorney myself. I firmly believe he intentionally lied and said because he never put it in the contract, he never said it, so I lost my money with nothing to show for it – no money, no representation. I had to go to some other attorney who didn’t charge me any retainer and he achieved a successful mediation for me. Run for the hills, or as far away from David Chun as possible unless you force him to put every stipulation in the contract. But I don’t see the point in going to someone who does not keep his word. After he kept my retainer, provided me with no work, he also had the gall to try to bill me several hundred dollars more. This man is untrustworthy and during the fee dispute I want to add that he brought up completely irrelevant confidential personal information just to gain an advantage which is unethical for an attorney to do. And when my father went to question him on any of this during a visit from N.Y., Mr. Chun was nowhere to be found.
Update:
I can see that since I posted this review favorable reviews have been posted on David Chun. That’s great if my review has motivated David Chun to straighten up. But ask yourselves why is another attorney on Unilocal giving a review on David Chun as a great colleague? That’s not an unsuspecting client going to him for help. I can speculate this is an attempt to repair his reputation. Do I think it’s possible for David Chun to be a good attorney? Maybe if you sign a contingency arrangement which gives him what he wants, 33%. But remember I had an hourly arrangement with him with a 10 hour cap. Furthermore, his retainer agreement did not address the scope of his work, we discussed it orally, and he later denied it. Unfortunately, I do consider him to have stolen my $ 2,000.00 for not having done any work and keeping my money. The fact that I’m an attorney myself and didn’t have him stipulate the maximum hours for him to work was used by him against me when we went to mediation over this dispute even though he denied we had that conversation. He just couldn’t remember it though he had painstakingly explained why he couldn’t write it in to the contract. He clearly had a hidden agenda than was different than the one I was paying him for, to force me to have racked up so many hours that I would have had no choice but to move to a contingency arrangement even though I didn’t need him for that with all the work already done. A snake is a snake. I filed a complaint with the State Bar of CA and never heard back from them. Thank goodness for Unilocal to at least hold professionals responsible to their clients. Take what these other posters said with a grain of salt please because my feeling is they are here to counteract the truth of what I’ve written.