I hired David J. Colman from Bloomington, IN to represent me for a legal issue. When I hired the P.O.S. He said the legal fees would be between $7500.00-12,500 and I'd have to pay him a 3750.00 retainer. I asked why the range. He said it depended on the amount of work he had to do. He told me it would be towards the bottom end of the range if I plead guilty and towards the top of the range if we fought it.
I plead guilty. He basically did no work on the case... As a matter of fact, I had to hire another lawyer to take care of some aspects of the case because Colman didn't follow up on some of his motions. I think he wasn't too worried about doing work on my case because he was in the process of getting disbarred.
At any rate, once I was sentenced he handed me a bill that stated his total fee was $10,000. I didn't pay the balance. I think I had paid him something close to $7000.00 at the time. He got his law license back a few years later and sued me for the balance plus interest and of course, he won. He lied his ass off in court. I couldn't even get a lawyer to help me with that case. Go figure. I tried to get the Indiana Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court to investigate Colman's purjury but they wouldn't even call the Bloomington prosecutor that was involved in my case to verify if anything Colman was saying was true.
I've hired quite a few lawyers over the years and have never not paid up in full. Of course, the were honest about the fees they were going to charge.
Lawyers, nothing but a bunch of parasites!
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