Reviews

I am not bitter with the situation, I just want people to know what happened in my case before they hire him on retainer. Everything in this review is what happened in the case that he represented me for.Kevin represented me in a criminal matter. He was helpful with getting me in to a program which I truly am grateful for. However, when I hired him for a second time, I was misinformed by him and paid the price for it. (I did break the law and deserved punishment.) . But with his guidance, I did not do what I was obligated to do by probation. He instructed me to keep quiet and not tell probation what had happened. I trusted his judgment and did what he said only to have it come back at me as an additional violation. I have been on probation for 2 1/2 years and had no violations. I admit, I messed up and I'm not blaming kevin, and I was violated. My first violation was maxed out- 1 year in county jail. You can do the research, most if not all 1st violations are 90 days for the same violation that I did. Once in front of that judge in C58, the violation court room, I had him represent me again, hoping he could clear up the miscommunication. He simply did not know how that courtroom operates. He was warned by the DA "that is not how it works here". He then shushed her and pushed the case to another date and judge and stormed out of the room. Negative words were said about his actions by all the court officials. I'm not a lawyer, but the mood in the room was poor. I thought this was his way of handling the situation and I kept my faith in him. When he came to me with what the penalty was and what my options were, he misguided me again. He told me that I would be getting x amount of credits. When the judge read the sentence, those credits were not included. I looked at him with disbelieve and he assured me that he would get those credits for me and not to worry. Again, I trusted his judgment and believed him. I later found out, that there was no way I could get those credits because I was not going to prison, I was serving county jail time. Another attorney told me that fact and also said, every criminal attorney knows the procedure. Thats not the issue I had with our relationship. I did the crime, I'll do the time. It was exactly what I needed to get my life back on track. The issue I had is this; while I was in jail, my mother was corresponding with Kevin. Her experience was less then professional. When asked about credits, he kept saying "I'll get them, don't worry he will be out in June.... Where is the remaining balance he owes me?" Mind you we have paid him well over $80k over the last couple of yrs. and I owed him less then $1000. After emails to my mother calling her "stupid" and other terrible things, we finally paid him the balance. He came back and said , " oh yeah I can't get him those credits" in June, after months of him saying" it's just paperwork I need to file" I am not bitter at the situation, I do wish he had a little more "bedside manor" when dealing with my mother. After more disrespecting emails, we fired him and hired a new attorney who had me released from jail the following week before my sentence ended. He had a sentence modification done. My new attorney told me that I should never have had to go to jail in the first place.These are truly the facts of what happened. I am not spiteful, or hostile. This is what happened.