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Initial Complaint
09/08/2022
- Complaint Type:
- Billing Issues
- Status:
- Unanswered
We had a 30 minute consultation with ******************* for $50.00 at the end of July 2022. A couple days later, I called with the intentions of retaining limited services to review court docs that I had completed. **** said we can hire her for limited scope, I don't recall the fee for that, but then she said for full representation it would be $3,500 and then after 45 days we'd be charged $500 per month.ME: Oh, that's for you guys to do everything?KERI: Yes, it will only cost more if the case gets drawn out. So I agreed to the full representation. Only 1 week after hiring them they requested $425 for filing fees. Then a couple days later they requested $500 for court investigator fees. I paid both. Two weeks after hiring them we appear at the first hearing. **** did a horrible job representing our case. I'm waiting for the court transcripts before I comment further on that. The next morning I emailed **** to inform her to STOP all work on our case and send me my final bill and since it had only been 2 weeks I fully expected to have a portion of our $3,500 retainer returned. Instead I received a bill of over $6,000. So balance due of over $1,600.I'd like to add that after just one week, we were already over $3,500 but never did they inform us. It wasn't till I fired them and got my final bill did I find out. Who knows how much would have been racked up over the next couple of weeks before they send out their monthly bill.So my questions that I emailed and havent received a response:1. Does **** deny stating it would only cost more than $3,500.00 if the case got drawn out?2. Was it just lack of experience on ****'s part to not request a larger retainer fee?3. Or were we intentionally mislead about the cost?We were only 2 weeks in and the cost is over $6,000.00. We were NEVER given any indication that we were anywhere close to using up the $3,500.00.I have emailed David Martin about waiving the $1,600 ba
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Customer Complaints Summary
1 total complaints in the last 3 years.
0 complaints closed in the last 12 months.