Makarem & Associates

Makarem and Associates helped me handle my employment claim. Ron and the rest of the team were diligent and efficient. They kept the channels of communication open, always keeping me in the loop and walking me through the next step in the long process that is litigation. I was able to settle my case and was happy with the results. I am glad I was referred to Makarem and Associates, I could not imagine having another law firm work on my case. On the plus side, they have amazing views of the ocean from their law offices!

I work in a competitive industry where for years it’s been common practice for bosses to encourage their employees to work unpaid overtime hours. Because so many people in my field are competing for only a few positions, it was easy for the people in charge to get extra work hours without having to pay for them. After being stuck in this rat race for a few years, I had enough. I presented my dilemma to Ron and he became my white knight in my fight against my oppressive employers. I won my case and now I am paid properly for the hours I work.

I came to Ron Makarem in Sept of 2010. I was in desperate need of help and no other attorney would take my case against my former employer. People told me I didn’t stand a chance against my former employer. Ron was the only person along with his associate, jean Paul Leclercq, that believed my story and had faith in my case being successful. Considering the fact that I’d never been involved in a lawsuit, and was previously taken for every dime I had by the first attorney I tried to hire, I didn’t know what to expect. I googled Ron’s office and read highly recommended reviews of his firm and decided to call him. It took some time to get this case heard, and I was down on my luck for some time, but I had faith Ron and Jean Paul’s reputation preceded them and I was in good hands. I was grateful for their time. They worked very hard on my case, especially Mr. Leclercq, who was with me from beginning, to the end when we won our case. All those late hours he spent with Questioning and depositions, paperwork and late hours at the office, dedicated to helping me win my case really paid Off in the end. I had to be very patient but in the end, I am absolutely pleased with choosing Makarem and associates. I have complete confidence that this firm will go far distances in the near future. Makarem and associates are the sublime beauty of law firms. I highly recommend them.

Ron Makarem and his associates helped me get through a very difficult and personal employment lawsuit that threatened my career. He made a stressful situation manageable with his calming advice and guidance. I would recommend him and his team to anyone who might need an ally in a fight against an employer.

I came to Ron in desperate straits. I had been involved in a lawsuit against a former employer only to have my case thrown out because my attorney failed to adequately establish the evidence necessary to my case. Ron came to my rescue and helped me to successfully sue my previous attorney for legal malpractice.

Makarem & Associates did an excellent job representing me. I was actually referred to Ron Makarem by another attorney who also helped with my case. Ron’s office took extensive time to understand my case issues, read through all the material, consult with field experts, and advise on various possible outcomes. The Makarem team ultimately prevailed! I have thought of the Makarem office (specifically Ron) many times and was extremely pleased with the outcome. I would highly recommend Ron Makarem and his team to anyone who needs a knowledgeable and thorough attorney. Ron also seemed to take specific «ownership» of my case and was very sensitive to all the issues I was personally facing. I can’t say enough good things about my experience with Makarem and Associates. Ron Makarem would be my FIRST call if I ever needed an attorney again.

I’m the CEO of a manufacturing company. Way back in 2000, we were illegally sued by a large multi-​national corporation who tried to use the legal system to crush their competition. After nearly ten years of litigation, and legal expenses of several million dollars, we were able to prove that their lawsuit was illegal. However, our attorney at the time made a major mistake so we were not able to fully recover from the multi-​national. We appealed all the way to the Supreme Court but they declined to hear our case. The only way for us to be compensated for the damage to our business was to sue the law firm that made the mistake and collect from their insurance. I interviewed many malpractice attorneys. In the first five minutes of talking with Ron Makarem, I knew he as the man for the job. As it turned out, I chose well. Ron was able to recover millions of dollars for my company and he did it in a very cost efficient manner.
Without Ron, we were victims of the legal system — unfairly sued, drug through over a decade of very expensive litigation, and forced to take losses in the millions of dollars. Ron fixed that mess and got us the justice that we deserved.
I have worked with (or against) about 100 attorneys in the past fifteen years. In my opinion Ron is among the very best. He’s very intelligent, a strong advocate, but also an honest and forthright person. Everyone I worked with at Makarem & Associates was helpful, friendly and intelligent. There’s not much to like about being involved in complex litigation but Makarem and his team made the process bearable, even fun at times.
Ron fixed an injustice that would have haunted me for the rest of my life and gave me renewed faith in the system.

Ronald Wael Makarem fraudulently advertised himself to me as an experienced and winning jury trial lawyer. Ron Makarem later called me into his office after close to 6 months of litigation disaster, machinations, and obscene overbilling to tell me he lost all jury trials taken to their completion.
Makarem and Associates aka Makarem Law ran multiple meters for duplicated and defected work product that included subpar pre-​trial litigation. There was no one who ever owned my case and I was subsequently billed for endless conference meetings. Makarem and Associates inefficiently passed my case from attorney to attorney (Jean-​Paul, Anthony Lupu, Matthew Negrin, etc.) so everybody could get their cut of billable hours.
Jean-​Paul Le Clercq aka «JP» is a senior associate of Makarem and Associates and Ron Wael Makarem’s personal sidekick and cash machine as Ron Makarem is inept in producing legal work product without «JP» lapping at his side. JP did everything he could to accommodate opposing counsel including allowing opposing counsel to bill me for his expenses to perform an out of state deposition (including hotel and dining with large tips), and JP accompanied Makarem to a 10 hour mediation and did absolutely nothing productive, but double bill me.
After entering the office of Makarem and Associates, I saw excessive gaudy framed Super Lawyers cutouts on their office walls that scream of Super Kitsch. They are also located on the highest floor of a Brentwood office Building and refused to reimburse me for parking that costs $ 20 after a relatively small amount of time has elapsed despite calling me into their office for excessive unproductive «meetings.» Makarem and Associates’ showboating means they need high cash flow to keep afloat and therefore double billed me and triple billed me to survive and pay their high and completely unjustified overhead.
Makarem never mentioned to me that he committed misconduct during trial. Well he did in the following jury trial.
In Wolfson v. Tukatech, Inc., 2010 WL 3 170 521 (Cal. Ct. App. 2d Dist. Aug. 12, 2010) The court of appeal stated:
«Because the record supports a finding that Makarem repeatedly argued unauthorized instructions whose flaws should have been obvious, even after repeated objections to those instructions were sustained, we hold that the trial court did not abuse its broad discretion by finding that misconduct occurred.»
Ron Makarem was the plaintiff attorney in the Cassel decision, which Makarem lost. Makarem then deviously misused his knowledge of the Cassel decision as a playbook to commit legal malpractice during mediation by coercing a ridiculous settlement from me that Ron said would not be binding; then later Makarem stated «I never said that.» Ron Makarem also physically assaulted and falsely imprisoned an elderly relative (who was manipulated by Makarem to come to this mediation) during mediation by pushing him back into his chair as he gathered his things to leave. This happened after he demanded to leave the mediation multiple times and in a previous instance Makarem placed his hand on him and stood in front of the exit door preventing him from leaving.
Makarem did not make any motions to try to find a new medical expert for me and kept on a designated «medical expert» who lost his license twice. Ron Makarem and Jean-​Paul most likely intentionally sent out defected subpoenas twice in a row regarding key information in my case and due to this error I could not have the complete information presented at trial. Jean-​Paul also proceeded to contact a key witness in my trial approximately twenty times for no reason other than to discredit my own key witness since he wanted to concoct reasons why my case would not prevail at trial.
I eventually won against the remaining defendant in a jury trial for approximately $ 250,000 with a different firm and a trial lawyer, Jeff Roberts (The Roberts law firm in OC), who actually won jury trials and rightfully deserves to be called a «trial lawyer.» Makarem tried to coerce me to settle with this same defendant for $ 40,000 paid over five years and tried to downplay my life threatening injuries. The other defendant, which I was coerced and manipulated to settle with during mediation by Makarem and JP for an insulting amount was later found even more negligent than the remaining defendant I won the $ 250,000 against in trial.
After my refusal to settle with the remaining defendant, Makarem threatened to charge me over $ 120,000 for trial. I did not give in to Wael Makarem; Makarem then proceeded to file a motion to drop me as a client several weeks before trial and on the same day that my mother was given six months to live due to an incurable and devastating disease. Makarem had extracted all he could from me as his personal ATM machine, and saw the sickness of my mother as his perfect exit point to abandon me two weeks before trial.
Lady Justice has been desecrated by Makarem and Associates