Charles Adlai Rich, who DID work at 2911 Turtle Creek in Dallas - takes your money and runs! You'll never get a dime's worth of a job done because he's a thief! He took my $2500 retainer to start a job for me in "Probate Law" which he claimed to specialize in. About a week after giving him my money, he writes me a letter stating that if I have a drug addiction, he will not be able to represent me... I'm thinking, what in the? So I produce 2 months of "clean UA's" to him at my own expense, to ease his mind. Of course later I realized he was trying to come up with an excuse to drop my case and keep my money.
Come to find out, 6 months down the road after I've seen that he is not professional at all, doesn't even seem to know what he's doing, doesn't return phone calls after a lengthy time of absence from speaking with me on the case, and other things, not to mention exploding his temper on the phone, an attitude not becoming of a professional attorney, & just out-and-out weird happenings - he walks out the door of his little ol' rented office with a desk and nothing else, that was rented on the third floor of a luxury highrise in Turtle Creek (to have the name & facade of class & style) without a single reason as to why or here's what you should do! One day he's your attorney, the next day (after you've paid him a large retainer), he sends a letter stating he is no longer practicing law and has moved out of his office. He gives no reason as to why he has abandoned me, and taken my money with no results in my case. He literally did nothing! He took my money, proceeded to act more and more strange as the days went by, and he only works by his cell phone, which to me is almost the same as a fly-by-night company, cause you can easily avoid your clients phone calls - what with no secretary, no helper to answer the phone, no one to give you any answers or information. I am talking about giving this guy $2500 to start a case that he told me would probably not cost any more, and that would likely be resolved in six months or less. Six months after paying him, he hasn't done a single thing, not even a court date. He only served the papers to the opposing party, and he even sent me to the county to serve the papers and told me that it's going to cost me an extra $300. I asked him isn't that why I paid him, to do this stuff for me? Anyway, I did deliver the papers to the clerks office in that county, but I insisted he use HIS credit card to pay, which - by the way, was only $40! He was going to take another $300 of my money and I'd never known the difference had I not went to the county clerks office in the flesh and found out the price on my own.
It took Charles Rich 6 months to serve papers to the opposing party.in all this time I couldn't get any answers or info at all from him. He made so many mistakes on the original petition filed with the county clerk, that they couldn't even have their officers serve the papers because he had the wrong address of my lawsuit party! They are the ones who told me what was taking so long. When I asked Charles Rich what was taking so long for the papers to be served, he claimed that the county down there didn't know what they were doing. He lied to me yet again. I can actually county at least 10 lies that guy told me in the time I knew him handling my case. It seems every time I did get hold of him on hi cell phone, he was always "driving down the road" - never in his office or in court. I don't know what this guy was up to half the time.
He has a habit of "blowing his stack" at you if you ask him anything about your case. Then when you threaten to drop him, he apologizes adherently and says he has a lot of problems, or had his kid over the weekend, or didn't get any sleep, or is getting a divorce, or his plumbing is messed up, or just didn't get any sleep again, or blah-blah-blah. What about MY problems? The ones I paid him to handle for me in a professional manner? Forget THAT!
After 9 months of absolutely nothing except having papers served to the other party and me worrying about what this guy's problem is, and worrying about trying to come up with another $2500 or $3000 to pay another attorney to work my case, worrying about the time running out on my case, just wondering what kind of a monster did I find to take my case (He came off good on day one, but that's the only day he seemed like he knew what he was doing - except for one thing, he did seem to have a hangover that morning I went to visit him originally, but I figured, hey, he's a lawyer.)
It was all an act. He's a dumbA*. He later admitted the truth to me when I asked him exactly what kind of law did he practice - and he stated "criminal" - I realized then, this guy is F - d up! He had told me "Probate"!!! Didn't know a thing about Probate Law!
Well just about 11 months to the day of me hiring him, he sends a later stating he is no longer practicing law. Nothing about my case! I was in the middle of a fairly large inheritance/probate battle against a greedy, law-breaking sibling - and this is how my lawyer leaves me hanging. No apologies about anything, no word on who to maybe go to for finishing my case, no nothing - except for a bill saying I owed him even more money!
I don't think there's a possibility anyone else can get burned by this guy since he's not practicing law anymore, but beware just in case. Don't even look his way. He's a young, inexperienced, no-count, lying, cheating, drug-influenced (at his own admission) THIEF! After trying to contact him on his cell phone when i received his letter, he just hung up on me. But he doesn't seem to be chasing me down for the "money I owe him" - OMG this guy is something else. If you should ever see his advertising anywbere, RUN! Run as fast as you can away from this swindler. Oh and by the way, his website was the most unprofessional thing I'd ever seen. Lots of typos and mistakes throughout. Like it wasn't even proofed before being put on the web for the world to see! Doesn't surprise me. This guy is a no-class loser. What an expensive mistake I made. Makes me wonder if my judge of character will ever be trustworthy again! I'm scared to trust any lawyers now!
One Angry Woman, V-
Dallas, Texas
U.S.A.
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