Shea & Barron

I hired David Shea several years ago when I was going through a highly contested divorce and custody case. After ignoring several reflags, I ended up letting him represent me for almost 1.5 years and losing close to a half a million dollars (Mr. Shea caused me great harm not to my health but also my retirement plans). I finally fired him because of: 1) his incompetency stemming from taking on too many cases 2) his inability to think like a street smart kid and failure to write well English 3) his low prep-time dedicated to my case 4) the main reason however is his treacherous behavior making me lose my legal advantage. He prematurely disclosed the results of My PI’s investigation into my ex’s extramarital affair to the other side’s attorney Mr. W. B. Fortino from mooretaylorlaw who happens to be his attorney-friend. Because of this, I ended up losing the advantage of surprise to the other side who were then able to device new strategies during settlement negotiations to their advantage. Mr. Shea, a gentleman by demeanor yet an incompetent lawyer lost my respect, trust and cost me half a million dollars during settlement negotiations and time with my kids. He’s been late in court fillings of forms, very disorganized thoughts, his office staff are even worse, unfriendly, numb to people’s worries. These people are taking advantage of hurt-people in a divorce industry. The writing must be simple, not academic, thus a lawyer must be able to turn a client’s affidavits into a much simpler fact-based document free-of emotions so the judges can understand what the hell we are saying. I could have been in a much better position with the custody of my young children had Mr. D. Shea not caused the other side to take advantage of us. A year later, after I fired this gentleman, during a deposition of my ex-spouse, we found out that the other’s side along with her attorney were reading my private text messages between me and Mr. Shea, a criminal offence punishable by up-to 5-years in jail, had David represented me instead of worrying about his buddy we would have forced to other side settle immediately, I’ve lost close to 1/3 million overall. Instead he didn’t make much deal about that and alerted the other side. Had Mr. Shea been a little smarter, be more engaged and prepared and learned new legal maneuvers and more importantly give his attention to his client, I would be much better off today and he would have saved himself this rating and disgrace. I can only give him 1 out of 5 rating because there are no negative -numbers. I finally cut my losses with Mr. Shea and hired a new trial attorney. Not only I was able to get the full custody but also was able to force the other side’s several attorneys including the original Mr. Fortino from MooreTaylorLaw Firm resign two days before the final trial because I opened up another criminal case against my ex’s lawyer and indirectly against its firm which we didn’t not pursue any further at that time. This period gave me a time-advantage, so I could prove to the court that I am a better parent which I did when children’s wonderful honest guardian ad litem Mrs. Elizabeth Brenham from west Columbia along with MUSC forensic psychiatry department produced a report to my advantage. My exd had no choice but throw the towel and settle.