The Lemon Law Attorneys

Focus and practice areas

Automobile Lemon Law and breach of warranty claims make up the work at The Lemon Law Attorneys. The firm represents drivers who own defective vehicles and pursues buybacks, replacements, or cash compensation from auto manufacturers.

The route to that outcome varies. Some matters resolve through negotiated settlement with the manufacturer. Others go to litigation, and the firm handles those too.

Its footer describes the firm as a consumer protection law firm dedicated to protecting Lemon Law rights. That framing matches what the rest of the site shows. Every attorney listed sits inside the same subject area, and the practice taxonomy we matched came back with a single entry: lemon law.

What a single-area firm signals

Narrow practice has a practical effect on a consumer case. Manufacturer warranty programs, buyback formulas, and state-by-state statutory triggers reward repetition. A firm that sees the same category of claim daily builds pattern recognition that a general civil practice usually doesn't.

In my opinion, that focus is the most useful thing a prospective client can read off this site. It's verifiable from the attorney roster and the practice pages, and it doesn't depend on any claim the firm makes about itself.

How the team is built

Steve Stancroff and Mark Romano founded the firm. Both graduated from Wayne State in 1990, and both come from Michigan.

Stancroff grew up in Cadillac, Michigan. He earned a B.A. at Kalamazoo College and an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Temple University before his law degree at Wayne State University. He has practiced in Lemon Law and breach of warranty law since 1997, and he states he has assisted well over 10,000 owners of defective vehicles.

The founders' courtroom reach

Romano was born in Detroit and raised in Warren, Michigan. He graduated from Wayne State Law School in 1990 and holds licenses in Michigan, Wisconsin, and California.

His trial history covers more ground than his admissions do. He has tried consumer cases in Massachusetts, Virginia, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and California. For a firm whose cases turn on state statutes, that spread of courtroom experience carries weight.

Shareholders and attorneys

Tim Whelan is a partner and shareholder. He is a California litigator who has handled consumer rights cases in California courts for about fifteen years. He graduated with honors from Loyola Marymount University and was a Dean's Scholar at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. He has practiced with the firm for over a decade.

Aliaksandra Valitskaya and Karl Heil are also shareholders. The attorney roster names Gary Hermanson, Martin Flax, Steven Veinger, Richard D. Jackson, Kurt Bruderly, Ilona Gorin, Marie Barnes, and Linda L. Cupit.

The firm organizes itself into founders, shareholders, attorneys, and support staff, with lawyers admitted in various states. It says its attorneys hold decades of combined experience representing consumers in Lemon Law matters.

Geography and structure

The California office operates as Romano Stancroff PC in El Segundo. That entity name matters for anyone trying to trace the firm's structure, because the brand and the operating entities carry different names.

Coverage extends well beyond California. The firm works through offices and affiliated practices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Reading the multi-state model

Twenty-one states is wide coverage for a firm this size. The site distinguishes between offices and affiliated practices, which suggests the network mixes direct presence with local partnerships.

As a reviewer, I'd note that the distinction is worth a direct question during an initial call. Lemon Law is state law, and which lawyer will actually appear in a given jurisdiction is a fair thing to ask. The firm's own site sets up that question by naming both arrangements.

Romano's licensure in three states and Whelan's California practice give the roster a concrete anchor in at least two of those jurisdictions. The site doesn't publish admission years or law schools for most of the attorney roster.

Client access and service

The firm offers a free case review. It also provides Spanish-language service, which is a substantive detail for a California consumer practice given the size of the Spanish-speaking driver population in the state.

A toll-free line runs across the home, about, and contact pages. The consistency of that presentation across the site is a small thing, and it's the kind of small thing that tends to correlate with an organized intake process.

What the site publishes about credentials

Three attorneys have full biographical detail: Stancroff, Romano, and Whelan. Their education, admissions, and years of practice all appear.

The remaining nine names appear with titles and no accompanying bios. Anyone evaluating the firm can verify the founders and the named partner directly from the site and will need to ask about the others.

What the record shows

The verifiable material here is the practice concentration and the founder track record. Stancroff has worked in this area since 1997. Romano has carried consumer cases to trial in seven states. Both credentials sit on the about page with dates attached.

The firm publishes no founding year, so the length of its institutional history has to be inferred from Stancroff's 1997 start in the practice area and Whelan's decade-plus tenure. Those two data points sketch a long-running operation without pinning a date to it.

How this reads against the directory's standard

VerifiedLawFirms weighs what a firm can show over what it says. On that measure, The Lemon Law Attorneys does reasonably well. The named attorneys are real and countable. The founders' education and admissions are specific. The practice area is singular and consistent across every page.

The claim of assisting over 10,000 vehicle owners comes from Stancroff himself and appears on the about page as his own statement. Readers should treat it as the firm's representation, since no independent source backs it here.

My assessment is that the firm presents its work plainly. It names the manufacturers' obligations it pursues (buybacks, replacements, cash compensation), it names the two paths it takes to get there, and it names twelve lawyers. Stancroff started in Lemon Law in 1997, and the firm has been building around that specialty since.