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I was desperately in need of an attorney so I decided to call of Slater and Zurz. I wish I had never called because Jeffery Hawkins lost my case which should have been easy to win. He never defended me and gave into easily to other attorneys. He never fought my case and I had to continuously send thesame email over and over again and got charged because he wasnt listening to what I was saying. He was more concerned about getting paid than help me and my family. My kids were in harms way and he did nothing but try to get me out the door. Always too busy to talk. Don’t do the same mistake I did. Don't let someone like him defend you and your family because you will lose the case even though I as the mother had all the evidence and we still lost because he wasn’t defending. He was rushing out the court house so he could go on vacation. He would rather talk about Taco Bell and his family than my case and my family that he is getting paid for to defend. I am writing this review to hopefully help others before it is too late.

If you are looking for someone to F*ck your case up literally look no further. Jeff here is THAT man. Poor communication at it's finest. My initial phone interview went well with Jeff. So well I scheduled a 2nd and by the end of the 2nd I hired him. He blew so much smoke up my rear about what he could do it was unreal. When it came time to actually put those words into action he failed at an epic level. He is too interested in his own custody shannanigans with his grand child to be worried about YOUR issues. Need an appeal filed? My as well file your own... I had to file my initial appeal myself. My subsequent appeal that needed filed by Jeff was filed late which in turn got my case dismissed. After case was dismissed Jeff slapped me with a bill requesting an additional $567.00. I do not feel comfortable paying for services not properly rendered.

Hawkins decided that 8 minutes before my first divorce hearing via Skype would be a good time to learn how to set up a Skype account. He failed miserably . Being 25 minutes late didn't make the magistrate very happy and he let Hawkins know it throughout the whole hearing and it showed in his ruling. He was under prepared and over matched by opposing counsel. He basically went down in a ball of flames after being smoked by my ex's attorney. His handling of paper work was pitiful rendering it usless. Needless to say he did me more harm than good and was promptly fired. Avoid Hawkins at all costs.

My wife and I hired Jeff to help us with a custody battle. He did NOT listen to us, nor did he do anything to help win our case. He sat on all of our info and never presented our case to the courts. Once he realized that he lost our case, before our final hearing, he asked to be paid in full; almost $3,000. We told him we cannot pay that much during the holiday season, so he emailed us the following Monday and demanded $500 to be paid by the end of the day or he would drop us. We are now stuck having to defend ourselves and are looking at losing custody of our son. Thanks for nothing Jeff!

Mr.Hawkins defended me on a child support case that lasted almost 3 years.I was being sued for 18 years of back child support.He attended every pretrial hearing on my behalf and always filed an apropiate response to the plaintiffs attorney.He most diffently let the opposition know that we where not settling and we're ready to take this to trial.Resulting in the plaintiff and daughter from withdrawing this lawsuit.Mr.Hawkins was there for me from the beginning to the end.I highly recommend Mr.Hawkins and the entire law firm of Slater and Zurz.

In my three-year long divorce/custody case, the final hearing was rescheduled seven times, the last four times were while Hawkins was my lawyer. The last two rescheduling were to allow my ex-wife's primary witness to testify. The final hearing was scheduled for two days. Per my conversation with him (on day two), Hawkins had "car problems" on his way home from work the day before the first scheduled day of testimony in my case. Rather than take his car to a professional repair shop or make other transportation arrangements, he took his car to a "buddy" and they tried (and failed) to fix it themselves. Hawkins was a no-show for the first day of testimony. The Judge cancelled the entire day outright. I was required to pay my ex-wife's witness to reschedule for the following day of testimony. FYI, during conversations over the time he was my lawyer, Hawkins told me that he owns two cars personally, and his firm owns multiple cars. Rather than reschedule an eighth time, the Judge simply refused to allow my two rebuttal witnesses to offer any testimony... and my own time on the stand was limited to less than an hour (by comparison my ex-wife had four hours, and her primary witness had three hours). Hawkins failed to object to any of this. Even during the time I was on the stand, I had given Hawkins a list of issues I wanted to raise... he ignored it. My own testimony was limited to little more than "who are you? what is your background?". All throughout the second scheduled day, Hawkins refused to really discuss anything at all with me during the breaks... even when I demanded to know why he wasn't objecting or asking to reschedule so that my witnesses or myself could actually testify. The only response I could get out of Hawkins the second day was "we'll address the remaining issues in closing arguments"... and when the Judge decided against allowing oral closing arguments, Hawkin's response was "we'll do it in written arguments". A week later, I get a one-line email saying "Judge isn't accepting any further briefing / arguments". This was after paying him over $20,000 to represent me.

Mr Hawkins gave me poor and wrong advice through my whole divorce. 1. Advised me I could go through a different facility for assessment. Ultimately judge was very upset . 2. Forwarded several emails between me the client and Mr Hawkins to my ex husband's attorney clearly a breach of clientt attorney Confidentiality. Through custody trial he was looking at my notebook for questions to ask. You would think he should have been a little more prepared. An hour waiting in conference room before trial with my witnesses he was looking at a magazine talking.g about dogs. When he should have been prepping my witnesses. The court did not get nearly any facts of the case. Everything was all one asides one my ex s side. His lawyer was clear detailed. Do not use this attorney u will lose your house your child and he would not have a care in the world. Several more instances happen. I could write a book on how poor this atty was. Filing a complaint with the bar.