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 This web site is designed to be your one-stop resource for putting an end to your lemon law headaches. We eliminate the need to visit multiple web sites on the net for lemon law answers and information. It’s all right here. We are the California Lemon Law Experts. Here you can scroll down and find answers to your California lemon law questions, or call 1-800-225-3666 and get advice to start a lemon law claim/case on your vehicle - right now.
 Purchased
or leased a new or used lemon? Free help is on the way. Our staff
of professionals is ready to assist you with FREE personalized
service via our toll-free “Lemon-Line” at 1-800-CA-LEMON
(1-800-225-3666). You will receive a FREE case review and
evaluation within 2-4 hours of submission of your faxed or
e-mailed PDF/ZIP attached documents. If you would rather submit
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Our firm is statewide. We are based in California, serving
California residents for 21 years. We have offices in key cities
in California. We only practice California Lemon Law. We have an
unbeatable 99% success/recovery rate, with less than 1% of cases
ever having to go to court. Many cases are settled in as little as
7 days! We have settled over 11,000
California lemon law cases. All cases are on a “no risk”
contingency basis, often with no fees or costs incurred by
the consumer! The California lemon law has a provision for
attorney’s fees, making the automobile manufacturer pay the
attorney for time spent on a lemon law claim. No money due
up-front or during the duration of your case. There is simply no
reason for any California consumer to have to attempt to go
against the automobile manufacturer by themselves, or worse yet,
Arbitration, which isn’t even a requirement to pursue a lemon
law claim in California!
What
sets us apart from other California Lemon Law attorney firms is our non-litigation (non-lawsuit) philosophy. Scores of
California Lemon Law attorneys immediately
file a lawsuit against the automobile manufacturer under our lemon
law. There is normally simply no
reason to do this other than the attorney wanting to maximize
his/her billable hours (and profits) against the automobile
manufacturer. In other words - revenue
driven. Mr. McGee’s 21 years of working with all automobile
manufacturer’s PRE-litigation
legal department representatives, and not immediately filing
lawsuits, has fostered a “work-together” relationship between
Mr. McGee and the automobile manufacturers*. Mr. McGee has working
relationships with these manufacturer’s - for 21 years. They
want to settle the cases just
as much as Mr. McGee does, and with this in mind, the lemon
law cases can be finished much faster, and with the best possible
outcome for our clients. Mr. McGee personally calls each client on
their lemon law case during its progress, and also at the
conclusion. At our firm, your ongoing lemon law case is not
discussed with a paralegal or clerk. YOU and Mr. McGee discuss
your ongoing case. We are not a “lemon law mill”.
Every lemon law case we take is handled with
professionalism and attention to detail, as well as excellent
communication between client and attorney.
What
kinds of resolutions are possible in a California Lemon Law case? Our California Lemon Law statute affords a vehicle
repurchase, or a new vehicle replacement. This being said,
we have clients that will desire alternative settlements to
repurchase or replacement. This
can include “cash-and-keep”,
wherein the manufacturer agrees to pay an amount to our client
that is negotiated by the attorney that allows the client to
retain their vehicle and put substantial “cash in their
pocket”. Our law firms experience allows us to often present multiple
options to settlement for our clients to choose from, thus
affording the greatest range of settlement options in their
California Lemon Law case.
Over 70% of our new lemon law cases come from personal referrals by past clients, repeat client representation, or referrals from other attorneys/attorney firms.
Our clients have valued the professionalism, respect and
courtesy we provide, as well as the outcome of their California
lemon law case settlements, and thus tell their friends, relatives
and co-workers. We
invite you to experience our high level of personalized client
service, and attention to detail by calling us or e-mailing us
today.
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CLICK HERE FOR KTLA 5 LEMON LAW NEWS STORY VIDEO
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William
R. McGee chosen to speak on California’s Lemon Law by attorney Manny
Medrano of television station KTLA 5
for a special news segment
focusing on consumers automobile warranty rights.
February 2, 2010
In the wake of the
recent massive Toyota recalls, Manny Medrano, consumer attorney for
television station KTLA 5 in Los Angeles, interviewed plaintiff’s
attorney William R. McGee, who specializes in the California “lemon
law”. The interview was conducted at the law firms Glendale office.
Mr. McGee has represented over 11,000 California consumers in “lemon
law” cases, and has specialized in lemon law for over 21 years, with
4 statewide office locations.
The focus of the
interview was not the Toyota recall, but rather to California
consumer’s rights and how the California lemon law may apply to
them. Mr. Medrano first interviewed a client of Mr. McGee who had
recently concluded a lemon law case that yielded a buyback
(repurchase) of the client’s defective Chevrolet Cobalt by General
Motors. Mr. Medrano then interviewed William R. McGee, fielding
questions about California’s lemon law, how it works, and what
consumers should be aware of in utilizing this important consumer
protection law.
The highlight of the
interview was that consumers were introduced by Mr. McGee to the
importance of properly documenting warranty repair visits by virtue of
obtaining “repair orders” from the dealership when the vehicle is
presented for repairs.
Also covered in the
story was the point that if consumers have had repeated repairs for
the same problem during warranty, and their vehicle has just recently
left the factory warranty, that the consumer may still be a candidate
for a lemon law claim if the problems still persist. |
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*There
may be an occasional claim where it is determined that the filing
of a lawsuit is the most expedient
way
to recover full lemon law entitlement.
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California
Lemon Law – Quick Reference Guide
The California lemon law offers protection for buyers of
new cars, trucks, motorhomes, and motorcycles. The
California lemon law provides different options to the
consumer and manufacturer.
For California lemon law to apply to cars and trucks that
qualify under the statute, the manufacturer must offer to
replace or repurchase the offending lemon law vehicle,
with the consumer not being forced to accept a
replacement. California lemon law treats motorhomes and
motorcycles differently. The California lemon law allows
the manufacturer to repurchase or replace under the
statute, at their discretion.
Automobile manufacturers will print warranty books that
contain “instructions” for consumers that think they
may have a lemon law vehicle that qualifies under
California lemon law. Consumers must remember that these
lemon law “instructions” or “steps to follow” are
what the automobile manufacturer wants you to do, and is
NOT the California lemon law. For example, many
manufacturers warranty books will attempt to direct the
consumer with a California lemon law claim to attend an
arbitration hearing. Arbitration is NOT required under the
California Lemon Law to pursue a lemon law claim. Nor is
there any requirement under the California Lemon Law to
bring a lemon law claim within 18 months or 18,000 miles.
You as the consumer have the entire new vehicle limited
warranty period (usually 3 years/36,000 miles or 4
years/50,000 miles) to bring your California lemon law
claim. If the repeated problem continues AFTER the
expiration of the warranty under the lemon law, in certain
cases you may still be applicable to protection under the
California lemon law. The California lemon law also uses
the manufacturers “extra power-train warranty
coverage” as lemon law protection for consumers. These
“power-train” warranties often provide for repairs as
long as 100,000 miles, and under the California lemon law
can be utilized to qualify a vehicle as a “lemon”.
When our California lemon law was passed many years ago,
the automobile manufacturers were allowed to set up
NON-binding arbitration as an OPTION for the consumer to
utilize in an attempt to settle their lemon law dispute.
Consumers in California must realize that these dispute
resolution mediums are often nothing more than a way for
automobile manufacturers to be given “another chance”
at fixing the consumers vehicle. One of the three
potential decisions that can be handed down at an
arbitration hearing is “the repair decision”. The
automobile manufacturers representative argues to the
arbitrator that the manufacturer should be given an
additional attempt to repair the vehicle, or argue that
they (coincidentally) “now have a fix developed” for
the consumers repeated defect. The consumer often goes
into a arbitration hearing expecting a “win” or
“lose” decision, but becomes stunned when finding out
that the outcome of their arbitration hearing for their
lemon law claim is simply to have their vehicle repaired
again! Arbitrators are not lawyers. Arbitration is NOT
required to pursue legal remedy in California under the
lemon law.
“Customer Assistance Centers”. Consumers can call the
manufacturers toll-free “assistance center”. They can
explain that they feel they have a vehicle that qualifies
under the California lemon law. The representatives will
give out a “case number” to the consumer. Often times
the unknowing consumer thinks this “case” number means
something, especially when followed by the potential
language of “we are opening a case number for you”.
Consumers can be potentially mislead that this is the
“opening” or “start” of a legal California lemon
law case. It is NOT. A “case number” is often nothing
more than a REFERENCE number to the consumer calling in
their complaint(s) that allows the automobile manufacturer
to establish a numerical file on the consumers call-in.
“Dealer Trade Assist”. Consumers need to be VERY aware
of this “trick of the automobile trade”. Consumers who
have been having repeated problems with their vehicle will
often seek lemon law relief by asking their car dealer to
“buy back” or replace their vehicle. What the consumer
does NOT know is that the dealer has nothing to do with
the California lemon law, nor do they have any
responsibility under the California lemon law to
repurchase or replace the offending vehicle. This is where
“opportunity knocks” for the car dealer in many
instances. The car dealer “responds” to the consumers
request by “offering” to resolve the consumers
dreadful car situation by offering “to take them out of
their car” or “get you out of this car and into a new
one” or similar verbage. This is NOT the California
lemon law. This is an example of an opportunistic dealer
sales tactic of making the consumer believe that they are
getting California lemon law relief, but in reality the
car dealer is taking the offending vehicle in trade, and
simply selling the consumer another vehicle! The dealer
often hears consumers say “you have to get me out of
this vehicle”. They are simply taking the customers
grief and turning it into profit, while the consumer loses
part or all of their earned equity in their vehicle, often
resulting in the loss of thousands of dollars. This
“dealer trade assist” can often result in the dealer
inflating the price of the “replacement” car and
putting the consumer further into debt. Consumers should
be very aware that the car dealership is in business to
make a profit, and to sell cars. The “dealer trade
assist” is just another example of how a consumer in
California can unknowingly THINK they are getting relief
from the California lemon law, but are simply being taken
advantage of.
What is the consumer to do? Consumers can simply the
entire California lemon law process by utilizing the
services of a lemon law attorney. We are The Law Offices
of William R. McGee, California Lemon Law Attorneys,
California’s largest lemon law firm. You can call us
toll-free at 1-800-CA-LEMON (1-800-225-3666) for a free
consultation or review of your repair documents to see if
you qualify for protection and relief under the California
lemon law. The California lemon law has a provision for
attorney’s fees, making the automobile manufacturer pay
the attorney for time spent on a lemon law claim. |
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