The California State Bar (CalBar) is responsible for their members’ behaviors, ethics and morals in respect to these attorneys practicing law. In other words, if their attorneys don’t perform and act responsible as Officers Of The Court they are disciplined and or disbarred. Well so their website claims; so the public believes and the media hides what is really true so I guess it’s my responsibility to show you, the people, what happened to me, which merely means it could happen to you next if it hasn’t already, unless there is a stop to it, starting with exposure! I’ve made it easier for you to check out the CalBar’s Professional Rules Of Conduct below with a link to them all. These change only slightly between state bars across the country and as the years pass, however they are basically covering clients’ rights and attorney’s responsibility and the really serious acts of moral turpitude never change. My attorney Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite Esq. violated almost every one of these rules; see for yourselves;
rules.calbar.ca.gov/Rules/RulesofProfessionalConduct.aspx
And here below is consumer information on how and when you should file a complaint with the CalBar
calbar.ca.gov/Attorneys/LawyerRegulation/FilingaComplaint.aspx
Below is my favorite; it’s the California State Bar mission; please compare what you read on these three links to what follows, which is my personal experience but I’m confident I’m merely one victim amidst thousands of others.
.calbar.ca.gov/portals/0/documents/reports/2009_Annual-Report-2008.pdf
I filed a complaint with the California State Bar on December 23, 2008 concerning Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite Esq. an Anaheim, California attorney who represented me in two lawsuits. The list of his moral turpitude and federal crimes listed below;
1) He unethically recommended that I sell my $2,000,000.00 home to him, temporarily, for half it’s value as a protection from dooming foreclosure, like the next day; he would then return the home to me upon completion of my cases and quoted this in his Contingency Fee contract. What’s more he forged my signature on the Buy/Sell Agreement to make it appear that I sold the house to him just days BEFORE he became my attorney, unbeknownst to me until months later.
2) Withheld pertinent documents of proof from the judge both in a Michigan trust case and an Idaho illegal foreclosure case.
3) Filed the Michigan case in the wrong court; should have been probate court as it involved my trust being embezzled by my trustees and a number of financial institutions.
4) Filed the Idaho illegal foreclosure case in the wrong state. This is very provable since the “personal” loan KeyBank was illegally using to foreclose on my “trust” owned property, with no loan against it, was drafted in Ann Arbor, Michigan. What’s more this personal loan wasn’t in default.
5) Lied to me about the laws and from the way my cases turned out it appears Catanzarite filed my cases like this on purpose with an ulterior motive.
6) He performed no depositions or interrogatories on either of my cases concerning millions of dollars in funds and real estate.
7) He never subpoenaed my account statements from Paine Webber when he was representing me concerning my allegedly embezzled, extorted and laundered trust account which had an estimated value of 80M$s
8) He dismissed defendants from these cases calling the actions great legal moves.
9) His business website; catanzarite.com was found to be full of pages with untrue CV’s; this is advertising fraud. Since August 2006, (when I faced him with questions about this) it has been removed but you can still access it at “Wayback” In fact he lied about having two CalBar Specialties which he no longer had, when I hired him, and it had been many years since he did.
10) He didn’t show up in court in Michigan for the trust case and the judge dismissed it.
11) He held a mandatory mediation for the KeyBank case BEFORE the judge ruled in my favor on a Summary Judgment and here he tried to settle with my giving him my three million dollar property, which KeyBank was illegally foreclosing upon; which he was representing me against? He claimed giving him my property would pay his costs, on his Contingency Fee unconscionable contract. Of course this was not a factor in his contract. It was his “shoot from the hip” idea for which he laughed as he suggested it! Not to mention he hadn’t at this point done more than maybe ten thousand dollars worth of work on my cases and the FRAUD he was committing pretty much canceled that out.
12) Catanzarite then unethically withdrew from representing me on both cases for no reason but because I refused to give him my Sun Valley, Idaho property worth $3,000,000.00; owned free and clear.
13) Catanzarite evicted my partner, Larry and I and our six dogs from my home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado after allegedly conspiring with Judge O’Hara on Route County Colorado to dismiss my day in court.
14) After withdrawing from my cases Catanzarite remained in contact with defense attorneys for KeyBank; huge ethical violation;; discussing the case and refused to turn my file over to my new attorneys claiming I owed him money when in fact he hadn’t used up his $45,000,000.00 retainer on my cases when he withdrew?
15) It’s ethically, morally and very dishonest business practice to have a contingency fee contract and charge a retainer plus costs, yet Catanzarite did this, which goes against the CaBar Professional Rules Of Conduct amidst all his other crimes and ethical violations.
16) At settlement with KeyBank, which was caused by Catanzarite allowing all discovery time to lapse Catanzarite, took almost every cent of my $650,000.00 settlement, calling these costs, after he had already taken my property with over $800,000.00 in equity in it. He also took, my share, of a piece of Sierra Nevada property which had been in my family for over sixty years and potentially valued, with improvements, $12,000,000.00, calling all this costs. I had no choice but to accept this as I had no vehicle, home or employment and was literally starving. Catanzarite actually caused our demise with his moral turpitude. I was confident the CalBar would in the end clear it all up by charging this criminal and ordering restitution; his crimes were so egregious!
Today my family and I are on our tenth year as homeless, penniless and unable to retain decent employment, mostly because of our ages in relationship to last being employed; we have always been self employed and all the unaddressed federal crimes that destroyed our lives and business also destroyed our fine credit. We have spent years selling our belongings in order to eat; lost five of our precious family of dogs; have no vehicle and we’re soon at retirement age. The public, in general, has no clue to how corrupt the law is, especially the California State Bar which is actually a Mafia protecting criminals, and so the criminal acts and ethics’ violations we the victims complain about come across, to them, as if there weren’t any and therefore the victims are “nuts” hence we the victims often lose our families and friends as we struggle to survive in less than poverty level. My case has produced exactly this.
The fault now, besides upon Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite Esq. belongs to the California State Bar for refusing to charge this criminal.
Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite Esq. practices law all over the country; he belongs to many state bars, or did when I was his client. He was in bad standing with most of them, unbeknownst to me at that time, (2005-2007) and while I was in Colorado as his client he represented me in Colorado, while he was suspended from the Colorado State Bar? He was charged by the CalBar in 1998 for something bad; they not only won’t share with the public what this was but have hidden the case so you’d have to be an expert at the CalBar website to find it. Instead, he’s considered an attorney with no disciplinary actions? Please look up his charge in 1998 on the CalBar “Court Dockets". Most in the public don’t look here because these attorneys listings on the bar often won’t mention ethical and criminal acts.
The CalBar does not hold these criminals, they call attorneys or Officers Of The Court, to any ethical standard; in fac, it is my experience, that these attorneys break more serious laws than the worst criminal in the general public while the state bars protect them. And, there are no Professional Rules Of Conduct being adheared to. Look at the list above. The CalBar refuses to even think of charging this criminal while our lives are destroyed; I would go as far as accuse him of our murders; if things don't change soon, we will die in the streets.
DeborahB
Santa Fe,#2Author of original report
Sat, August 23, 2014
Unfortunately the entries here are mixed up in the order they were posted; glitch; I apologise for any confusion; read carefully and understand just because I would "red" facts out doesn't mean they printed this way? So still there are some facts that should have been red but when I "hit" continue and my article posted the red disappeared:>(
Again, I apologise.... But please pay attention to the truth here; don't hire this Catanzarite and never expect the CalBar to protect you and your interests!
DeborahB
Santa Fe,#3Author of original report
Sat, August 23, 2014
Correction from last posting of Catanzarite's CV's; Tax Law resignation wasn't printed in red and it should have been as stated in my directions;
Small Business Bankruptcy- private removal, the year is private to public.
Tax Law- resigned as of 2004
Additionally the following should have been printed in red, because while Catanzarite represented me from March 2005-May 2006 in Colorado, no one in his office had a Colorado Bar membership; in other words didn't have a license to practice in Colorado. This in itself should cancel his unconscionable contract! But the CalBar doesn't care! What's more his standing in other state bars was very negative as you can see by the last posting I made here, (above) of Catanzarite's CV's.
The firm currently has five attorneys, many of whom are admitted to practice in other jurisdictions besides California, including Ohio, Kansas, Tennessee, Colorado, New York, Texas, and the District of Columbia. The firm also has a paralegal support staff which includes actuaries, forensic accountants and finance and valuation professionals. This allows the firm to deeply understand the issues in the areas of law, and to offer full-service legal
DeborahB
Santa Fe,#4Author of original report
Sat, August 23, 2014
Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite - #113750
Current Status: Active
This member is active and may practice law in California.
See below for more details.
Profile Information
The following information is from the official records of The State Bar of California.
Bar Number: |
113750 |
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Address: |
Catanzarite Law Corp 2331 W Lincoln Ave Anaheim, CA 92801 Map it |
Phone Number: |
(714) 520-5544 |
Fax Number: |
(714) 520-0680 |
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County: |
Orange |
Undergraduate School: |
Univ of Akron; Akron OH |
District: |
District 4 |
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Sections: |
None |
Law School: |
Univ of Akron SOL; Akron OH |
Status History
Effective Date |
Status Change |
Present |
Active |
6/13/1984 |
Admitted to The State Bar of California |
Explanation of member status
Actions Affecting Eligibility to Practice Law
Disciplinary and Related Actions Overview of the attorney discipline system. |
This member has no public record of discipline. |
Administrative Actions |
This member has no public record of administrative actions. |
The below is not easy to find, if you look him up on the CalBar site you only see what is above.
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Case Name: |
Catanzarite, Kenneth Joseph |
Case Number: |
94-O-19410 |
Member #: |
113750 |
Venue: |
LA |
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Closed |
Case Filed: |
04/03/1998 |
Counsel: |
Pro Per |
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Assigned Judge: |
Carlos Velarde |
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Description |
Notes |
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05/29/1998 |
Hearing Order |
DISMISSAL EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/28/1998 |
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05/29/1998 |
Ruling On Motion Filed 05/26/1998: Granted |
MTN TO DISMISS 262(E) |
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05/29/1998 |
Status Conference |
NOT HELD,DISMISSED |
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05/26/1998 |
Motion: Dismiss by Examiner |
MTN TO DISMISS 262(E) |
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05/07/1998 |
Document |
ORDER PURSUANT TO STATUS CONFERENCE |
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05/07/1998 |
Status Conference |
HELD,FURTHER STC CONF. ORDERED |
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04/28/1998 |
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ANSWER TO NTC OF DISCIPLINARY CHARGES |
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04/07/1998 |
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NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT AND NOTICE OF STATUS CONFERENCE |
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04/03/1998 |
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NOTICE OF DISCIPLINARY CHARGES |
Below is what Catanzarite Law Corporation had on their website when I hired them.
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Catanzarite Law Corporation is the successor of a practice established in Ohio during 1974. The firm focuses its practices in the areas of Business Transaction and Litigation, Federal and State Tax Planning and Litigation, Probate and Trust Litigation, Retirement Plan and ERISA, Intellectual Property Litigation, and Bankruptcy Restructuring and Litigation. The firm currently has five attorneys, many of whom are admitted to practice in other jurisdictions besides California, including Ohio, Kansas, Tennessee, Colorado, New York, Texas, and the District of Columbia. The firm also has a paralegal support staff which includes actuaries, forensic accountants and finance and valuation professionals. This allows the firm to deeply understand the issues in the areas of law, and to offer full-service legal representation to the clients. The attorneys and staff at Catanzarite Law Corporation are committed to providing comprehensive yet cost-effective legal services to their clients in a timely manner. We at Catanzarite Law Corporation take pride in working with our clients to achieve and meet their goals and objectives. We welcome you to our firm. *Notable Cases: Kenneth J. Catanzarite is favorably noted in The Rutter Group California Practice Guide Civil Procedure Before Trial for the exercise of jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant providing professional services to a forum resident (Hylwa v. Palka). Click Here for Case Information |
Below is what this attorney said about himself on his website when I hired him. The words in black are his; the words in red are what I found out from my investigation. His website was removed from the Internet shortly after I tried to stop him in 2006 from destroying me. It hasn’t been up since; you can access it by going to “Internet Archive Wayback Machine”. If you notice he had been false advertizing for a long time, the CalBar could care less about any of this or the many outrageous criminal acts he committed against me, which I posted on Ripoff Report earlier; the primary complaint.
Kenneth J. Catanzarite
Catanzarite Law Corp.
2331 W Lincoln Ave
Anaheim, CA 92801-5132
Communication Center
Phone: (714) 520-5544 (Ext. 256)
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: (714) 520-0680
Web site: http://www.catanzarite.com
Position Bar Admissions Education
Honors Affiliations
Current Employment Position(s):
Principal
Certifications/Specialties:
Chartered Financial Analyst, Association for Investment Management and Research, 1986
Certified Public Accountant, State of Ohio, 1987- Resigned before 2005
Certified Specialist, Tax Law, Personal and Small Business Bankruptcy, The State of California Board of Legal Specialization, 1987
Small Business Bankruptcy- private removal, the year is private to public.
Tax Law- resigned as of 2004
Licensed Real Estate Broker, State of California, 1987- Has no license
Certified Fraud Examiner, National Association of Fraud Examiners, 1987- Expired in 1997
Bar Admissions:
Ohio, 1974 - Resigned before 2005
California, 1984
Kansas, 1986- Suspended in 2002
Tennessee, 1988- Originally suspended 1996, Disciplined 2007
New York, 1990- Delinquent since 2002
Texas, 1991- Suspended 2002
Colorado, 1993- Suspended 1997, Resigned 2006
U.S. District Court Central District of California
U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1993- No license found
District of Columbia, 1991- Suspended, year private
Education:
University of Akron School of Law, Akron, Ohio, 1973
J.D.- Private information; REALLY? WHY WOULD THIS BE?
University of Akron, Akron, OH, 1971
Honors and Awards:
American Jurisprudence Award in Estate Planning- Private information; REALLY? WHY WOULD THIS BE?
Professional Associations and Memberships:
LA County Bar Association
Member- Resigned 2007
California State Bar Association
Member- Disciplined 1998
Ohio State Bar Association
Member
Kansas State Bar Association
Member
Tennessee State Bar Association
Member
New York State Bar Association
Member
District of Columbia Bar
Member
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Member- Was never a member
Past Employment Positions:
University of Akron, Adjunct Professor of Law, Taxation, 1975 - 1978
Birth Information:
June 14, 1949, Lorain, Ohio, United States of America
Below is Catanzarite’s current listing on Martindale, notice that he does not mention being licensed in Ohio. How does it help an attorney to exclude 10 years of practicing law? I called the Akron Law School they told me that his graduating or not was private information and hung up on me. Now I question if he even practiced law in Ohio in the seventies as he claims on his CVs. There’s no listing on the Internet that he even had a law firm in Ohio? Perhaps this is why he cut ten years off his years of practicing law? I even wonder if he graduated from law school?
Kenneth J. Catanzarite
is a Lawyer in Anaheim, CA
Anaheim, CA
Client Rating
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Areas of Law
Business Transactions and LitigationFederal and State Taxation LawSecurities LawEmployee Benefits LawProbateLitigation
Contact Information
Currently Employed At 2331 W. Lincoln Ave.
Anaheim, CA 92801
Experience & Credentials
Admission Details 1984, California; U.S. District Court, Central District of California and U.S. Supreme Court
Education University of Akron, B.S.B.A.; Akron University Law School, J.D.
Additional Bio Details Chartered Financial Analyst, Association for Investment Management & Research, 1986. Certified Public Accountant, Ohio, 1987. Adjunct Professor of Law, Taxation, University of Akron, 1975-1978.
And none of these outrageous federal crimes or ethical violations shown on the first posting would ever have occurred;or would Catanzarite even consider advertising untruths if the CALBAR did their job, but they don't! Because of this it's very likely the attorney you just hired is a criminal too!