Barry Bernstein
Major Felony Criminal Defense Lawyer! Misleading, inconsistent and very unprofessional!

Here is a short story of what happen.

My cousin was ignoring this boy who kept trying to fight him. Later that week they ended up fighting. The boy got his but kicked. The following weekend my cousin shows up at a party, paid to get in, and got searched before entering.
The friends of the boy who fought my cousin were there, they called the boy and less then a half an hour of my cousin being there, 25 to 30 grown men were beating my cousin up. Somehow a gun ends up into my cousins hands shooting two people below the waist. My cousin was put in jail.

We needed to hire an attorney and we only had less then a couple of days to do so.

Reading this...

Mr. Barry Bernstein "Southern California's best major felony criminal defense lawyer". Has the highest rating AV. Who is known for his aggressive and highly successful representation of those accused of major felonies. Bernstein has 40 years as a trial attorney, which has an excellent reputation with judges, prosecutors and court personnel. Who's clients always receive his personal ATTENTION and AVAILABILITY.

Sounds good and believable. RIGHT??? Hiring Mr. Bernstein to defend my cousin in his court case. We later learned that is not what the self proclaim attorney turned out to be. He was nothing but an unprofessional nightmare who added more stress and confusion to both, my family and his client.

Refusing to talk to witnesses who were present at the time of the party/fight/shooting. Ignoring all evidence and the lack of interest in talking to his client, who we hired to defend and fight aggressively for. Mr. Bernstein only talked to his client once. Making it hard for us to get in contact with him. To find out what was going on and how things were going to turn out. Always had a "filler" in his absence. Mr. Bernstein surprisingly showed up to sentencing of his client.
He lied and mislead his client as well as us. He took advantage of my young, nervous cousin and his client. He told my cousin to write a letter of confession cause that would give him less time. My cousin trusted him and believe that he was going to defend him all the way.

Mr. Bernstein client was sentence to 15 years in prison. Keep in mind that his client has no prior convictions, and has never been in trouble with the law before this.

Mr. Bernstein gave us false hope, and took our money. After the hearing we wanted to talk to Mr. Bernstein he wouldn't talk to us, he just left!

Finding out by other attorneys my cousin should not of got 15 years.
The most he should of got was 5!

If you go onto Mr. Bernstein profile there are more then a handful of all his victories in criminal cases... Something just doesnt add up about this so called Southern California best major felony criminal defense lawyer.

Do not hire this man!!!

Company: Barry Bernstein
Country: USA
State: California
City: Burbank
Address: 3727 W Magnolia Blvd. #767
Phone: 8185581717

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