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Blacklisted: Barry Fischer, Bar Number 122412
Law Offices of Barry Fischer
1925 Century Park East, Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Tel. (310) 788-0900 Fax: 310.788.0770

Undergraduate School City Univ of New York - Brooklyn Coll; Brooklyn NY
Law School Northrop Univ SOL; Los Angeles CA

Owes Abacus Consulting Services for $653.4 for a Mandarin interpretation services performed by a court certified Mandarin interperter for a Mandarin deposition on August 9, 2006. Barry Fischer refuses to pay on the basis that the interpreter should go after his client. His client is not reachable.

Interpreters for Mr. Marry Fischer should be careful, and should obtain deposits first for your interpretation performances.

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Nature of Complaint:

The attorney Mr. Barry Fischer ABA# 122412 refuses to pay for Mandarin interpretation cost that we performed on August 9, 2006 at his office located at 1925 Century Park East, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90067 despite 11 phone calls (no call backs) and more than 4 faxes that I sent to at his fax number 310-488-0770.

Details:

On August 9, 2006, Mandarin certified interpreter Ms. Yining Liu (Certification No. 301080) that our company hired performed an interpretation at Mr. Fischer’s office at 10:00am. The cost for the bill as of September 19, 2006 was $653.4 for the 2 hour deposition as well as late fees. (Invoice available upon request)

It was understood from attached email between Mr. Fischer’s assistant Min and us that the payment would come from Mr. Fischer’s office after the performance of the service.

We contacted Mr. Fischer for more than 11 times and left numerous messages. However, we never received call backs from him nor his assistant.

On the 12th time, in October, we finally were able to speak with Mr. Fischer, and he complained about Ms. Liu, a certified interpreter,’s performance. At my request, he sent us a fax detailing the details of the problems occurred during the deposition. However, he then said that the payment would come from his client, Mr. David Zhou.

We then waited for the payment from Mr. Zhou (Tel: 760-244-2354), but it never arrived. The agreement was made between Abacus Consulting Services and Mr. Barry Fischer’s Office. Therefore, it was our understanding that the payment should come from Mr. Barry Fischer’s office.

Finally, we learned that Mr. Fischer is refusing to pay us for the Mandarin interpretation service performed by the court certified interpreter. Therefore, we are making this complaint.

Sincerely,

Abacus Consulting Services

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The case is Ping Duan v. Shao Wu Zhou Case No. KD062121

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Another firm (individual) that asked interpreters to go after its clients (even though agreements were made by the interpreter and the law firm) is

An attorney at
Lee & Tran
1055 West Seventh Street, Suite 2820
Los Angeles, CA 90017

Note that it might be case specific and it does not necessarily reflect nor imply any of the improper conducts of the attorney or the law firm.

Date: September 26, 2007

Arbitration
Re. Nanhai New ATT Shoes-Making Ltd. vs. Jenico Import Export, Inc., et al.
Reference: 1220037159

Occurred at JAMS
707 Wilshire Boulevard
46th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017

Arbitrator: Hon. Jon M. Mayeda (Ret.)

Suhua Yan (AKA Catherine Yan, or Yan, Su Hua) of Nanhai New ATT Shoes-Making Ltd, represented by the above law firm claimed that the CA court certified interpreter did not perform the work to her satisfaction, and refused to pay the full amount of the agreed interpretation cost. She agreed to pay a portion of the agreed amount.

The court certified interpreter was asked to ask for payment the portion of the agreed amount directly from

Catherine Yan
Kevin Liao

ATT Shoes USA, Inc.
18217 Railroad St
City of Industry, CA 91748-1217

Tel: 626-839-9618
Fax: 626-839-9608
Email: kevinl @ attshoes. c om

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It was confirmed today from the attorney at the above the law firm that

Suhua Yan (AKA Catherine Yan, or Yan, Su Hua) of Nanhai New ATT Shoes-Making Ltd. paid less amount of the originally agreed amount to our certified court interpreter.

We certified interpreters worked hard for passing the exam. However, Suhua Yan (AKA Catherine Yan, or Yan, Su Hua) of Nanhai New ATT Shoes-Making Ltd. did not abide to the original agreement, made several changes to her original statements/agreements, and claimed mistakes in interpretation, and refused to pay the full amount for the interpretation cost.

All interpreters should report what happened to the presiding judge. This is the action that we might consider to do in the future.