Advocacy Center for Employment Law

This attorney mislead me in order to get me to pay him for services. He claimed to have a good relationship with the lawyers in the opposing party, which would help him reach a quick settlement. It took him almost a month to reach out to the opposing party, which he had no clue who to contact. He told me that he would charge me for four hours plus attend the trial setting conference. He explained the trial setting conference takes awhile because it requires a lot of waiting around. Because of this he would not deduct any hours for waiting around. As soon as the trial setting conference was over, he claimed I used all my hours up. The only thing this lawyer did for all the money he charged me was after I had to get the information on who he should contact he wrote a letter and spoke to them once. He claimed he was going to follow up and try to reach a settlement, but that never happened. I raised several concerns reminding him of his promises, and I asked questions in which the majority of the time he was very rude. Some of my questions he never answered. He never picked up the phone once. He said he’s going to charge me for every email he has to answer and would send these long emails trying to defend himself. This was a horrible experience. I have dealt with several employment attorneys in the past and this has never been my experience. I filed a complaint with the bar!